Mental Health Association of Portland

The Mental Health Association of Portland is an American charitable nonprofit interested in politics, education, advocacy, and research about mental illness in Portland, Oregon. The organization is the state's impartial and independent advocate for persons with mental illness and addiction and acts as the fiscal agent for projects defined and done by persons with mental illness or in early recovery from addiction.

Described by The Oregonian newspaper as, "Oregon's foremost independent advocate for persons with mental illness and addiction," the all-volunteer organization has exposed routine abuse of persons with mental illness by police, jails, governments and the psychiatric industry. Long-standing board members include social justice advocates Will Hall and Jason Renaud, journalist Jenny Westberg, and attorney Chris O'Connor.

The organization's web site is one of the largest archives of mental health history in the English language.

Recent projects include the documentary film Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse; the peer-run support group Portland Hearing Voices, part of the international Hearing Voices Movement; exposing dangers for patients at the Oregon State Hospital; creating a mural for James Chasse; the Oregon Law & Mental Health Conference, and political advocacy in response to the police-caused deaths of Brad Morgan, James Chasse, Aaron Campbell, Jackie Collins, Keaton Otis, Lukus Glenn, Dickie Dow, and many others.