“Oregon taxpayers are investing $211 million to fight our addiction crisis - expanding access to treatment, investing in shovel-ready centers and clinics, and supporting our behavioral health providers. They deserve a mental and behavioral health provider with Shannon’s financial expertise to ensure it’s well spent.” - Rep. Travis Nelson 

People should live full lives in their communities. Treatment and housing should be readily accessible in our neighborhoods. That’s why Shannon is expanding the Oregon Change Clinic into downtown to meet people where they are —working to heal people and give them the resources they need, when and where they need them. 

A trained Trauma Specialist and Family Psychotherapist, behavioral health is always at the forefront of Shannon’s mind, whether she’s interacting directly with a client at the Oregon Change Clinic, thinking of her loved ones, or all Oregonians. Decades of policy failure and underfunding has caused  Oregon to have the worst access to behavioral health services in the U.S. and the system has been strained further  by rampant fentanyl use. Increasing accessibility to better quality and affordable treatment services is paramount to creating a future for Oregon. She knows treatment must be de-stigmatized so those seeking help can receive the care they need without shame. Shannon has already seen results with better behavioral health services. The Oregon Change Clinic has brought stakeholders together from across state, local, and county government to more than triple the number of Oregonians receiving addiction treatment at her clinic, and successfully converted a dilapidated motel into 37 beds for people in treatment. These are the type of promises Shannon has delivered on and can be reliable for this issue and beyond