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Resources for Providers

This page provides resources for partners who coordinate court-orderd behavioral health treatment, including:

  • Oregon State Hospital
  • Community Mental Health Programs
  • Community-based organizations
  • The courts
  • Tribes
  • The residential treatment system
  • Hospitals
  • Local jurisdictions
  • Psychiatric Security Review Board

Aid and Assist is Oregon's competency restoration program. The program is for individuals who are:

  • Defendants in a criminal court case and
  • Unable to “aid and assist" in their own defense.

This program works to restore the individual's ability to take part in their own defense. Aid and Assist services can occur in the community or at the Oregon State Hospital.

House Bill 2420 (2015) amended Oregon law (Oregon Revised Statutes 166.365 and 161.370) to require courts to review CMHP input about:

  • Services and supervision needed to restore a defendant's ability, and
  • Whether such services are available in the community.

Resources for providers

Community Restoration Status/Immediate Notification Reports

  • Purpose: Report status of people ordered to community restoration on or after Sept. 29, 2025.
  • Instructions (PDF)

OHA Notification/Support Request

  • Purpose: Notify OHA when community placement is unavailable, and ask OHA for help finding appropriate placement.
  • Instructions (PDF)

Consultat ion Report

  • Purpose: Submit Initial Community Consult, Supplemental Community Consult, 30-Day Community Transition Planning Update or CMHP Notice of Available Placement.
  • Instruction s (PDF) 

Plan of C orrection

  • Purpose: Submit a Plan of Correction for failure to meet one or more requirements in OAR 309-088-0125, OAR 309-088-0130, and OAR 309-088-0146. This is required for defendants ordered to community restoration on or after Sept. 29, 2025.
  • Instructions (PDF)  ​

CMHPs must submit a Plan of Resolution for individuals in intensive treatment when:

  • The individual's care team has recommended discharge,
  • It has been more than 60 days since the recommended discharge date, and
  • The individual cannot be discharged because a more appropriate setting is not available.

The Plan of Resolution serves as a blueprint for the county and OHA. Intensive Services works with the county to approve and coordinate a placement plan. 

The Plan of Resolution must:

  • Identify the barriers in detail.
  • Show how the county has tried to address these barriers.
  • Provide a plan for resolving the barriers.
  • Outline how OHA can help.

Counties must email all Plan of Resolution communications to HSD.IntensiveServicesUnit@odhsoha.oregon.gov. ​


Civil commitment is a safety net service for people living with mental illness. It is a process for requiring mental health treatment for people who:

  • Are a danger to themselves or others,
  • Cannot provide for their basic needs, or
  • Have been civilly committed twice in the last three years and are in danger of a mental health crisis.

A judge decides whether the person requires civil commitment. Civil commitment may require the person to:

  • Go to a psychiatric hospital or
  • Accept other mental health treatment.

View civil commitment rules, requirements, forms and available training​.​