In one of his first acts as Association of Oregon Counties (AOC) President, Morrow County Commissioner Jim Doherty, traveled to Washington D.C. to convene with presidents and executive directors from statewide county associations across [...]
Jim Doherty took a bus more than 2,000 miles to the 2018 NACo Annual Conference in Nashville, seeing a good chunk of the country along the way: I was beginning to feel grounded, the [...]
Over $10.6 million in funding has been signaled for Improving People’s Access to Community-based Treatment, Supports and Services (IMPACTS), a new program and an Association of Oregon Counties (AOC) policy priority for the 2019 Legislative [...]
Nine Oregon County Commissioners attended the National Association of Counties (NACo) annual Western Interstate Region (WIR) conference May 15-17 in Spokane, Washington. At the conference, commissioners worked with their colleagues from the 15 western states [...]
As the session advances, conversations around foundational programs and funding critical to health and human services begin to take shape. Two big ticket items for Association of Oregon Counties (AOC), the Behavioral Health and Justice [...]