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Fairview: The Closing Chapter

Articles

• Farewell Fairview
  April 2000 Commemorative Issue of the Oregon Clarion
  A voice for Oregonians with developmental disabilities and their families
  Published by the Oregon Disabilities Council

• Services for disabled need improvement 
  Salem Statesman Journal: March 19, 2000

Fairview's Legacy
A series of articles by the Salem Statesman Journal

• Costs likely to delay developing campus
  Salem Statesman Journal: March 15, 2000

  • Mothballing costs remain uncertain  

  • Saving old sites possible  

  • Costs likely to delay developing campus  

  • Industry likely to replace farm  

• Caregivers fight to remain solvent
  Salem Statesman Journal: March 14, 2000

  • Workers face high demands  

  • Group homes draw complaints  

  • Experiences of area facilities show challenges facing industry  

  • Many still caregivers; some rebuild careers  

  • Caregivers fight to remain solvent  

• 4,000 disabled wait for state aid
  Salem Statesman Journal: March 13, 2000

  • Change can be difficult

  • Father hopes to see end to group homes  

  • Group home gets praise from mother  

  • 4,000 disabled wait for state aid  

  • Brothers go without therapy  

  • Other states face lawsuits

• Safety of disabled in doubt after deaths
  Salem Statesman Journal: March 12, 2000

  • Fairview history

  • A rash of deaths

  • Salem group home fell into dysfunction

  • Group home rebounds from bleak times

  • Closure of Fairview marks turning point 

• Last Felines are hard to find 
  Salem Statesman Journal: March 7, 2000

• Farewell, Fairview ---- you will not be missed
  Portland Oregonian: February 27, 2000

• Fairview not alone in closing
  Salem Statesman Journal: February 26, 2000

• Fairview closes its doors
  Salem Statesman Journal: February 25, 2000

• Fairview's final chapter
  Portland Oregonian: February 20, 2000

• Selling Fairview site may take years
  Portland Oregonian: February 20, 2000

• Waiting for a crisis
  Portland Oregonian:  August 19, 1999

• Waiting for care -- for years
  Portland Oregonian: August 15, 1999 

• Integrate disabled into community
  Portland Oregonian: July 16, 1999

• Fairview prepares for end with pride, sadness
  Portland Oregonian: July 12, 1999

• Fairview Training Center closure plan on schedule; employees facing layoffs getting job-search help
  Department of Human Resources News Release: May 26, 1999

• California takes a look at how Oregon cares for its developmentally disabled citizens
  CAPT Outreach magazine: May 1999

• Focus: A Fairview Update
  Department of Human Resources Message from the Director excerpt: December 30, 1998

• Fairview Training Center phased out
  Portland KATU Channel 2 News: November 16, 1998

• Treatment program for mentally retarded sex offenders ends with relocation
  Portland KOIN Channel 6 News and The Associated Press: November 16, 1998

• Fairview Closing Progress
  Department of Human Resources Message from the Director excerpt: July 31, 1998

• Former Fairview residents not a public risk
  Department of Human Resources News Release: May 7, 1998

• Fairview Training Center Budget Information Brief
  State of Oregon Legislative Fiscal Office: January 1998

• Supervision key in Fairview releases
• Salem Statesman Journal: : November 27, 1997

• Improving lives like Brian's
  Department of Human Resources News Release: January 15, 1997

• Fairview closure plan calls for 50 group homes
  The Business Journal:  Portland July 15, 1996