Art and Culture Council

The Art & Culture Council was established in response to the 2023 Stabilization Center Community Survey

Scope:

Ensuring that all individuals and families who will access behavioral health crisis support at the Lane Stabilization Center have the chance to receive care in a space where they feel dignified, seen, and are surrounded by familiar and healing views.

Primary Tasks:

Ensuring that all individuals and families who will access behavioral health crisis support at the Lane Stabilization Center have the chance to receive care in a space where they feel dignified, seen, and are surrounded by familiar and healing views.

  • Develop draft project goals and artistic vision to inform the community fundraiser
  • Identify which voices are still needed and determine when and how to bring them in
  • Review and validate previous community feedback on building/landscape design and synthesize into overall design recommendations
  • Plan community engagement event for facility design input (ensure accessibility, inclusivity, etc. and possibly align with other existing community events)
  • Identify how to ensure reciprocity with the land, and how to honor it via an intentional gathering on the land before groundbreaking)


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Membership:

Members:
  • Debra Depew, Family Member with Lived Experience & Executive Steering Committee Liaison
  • Steven Valvo, Lived Experience & DDS Consumer Council Member
  • Thea Albright, Lane County Behavioral Health
  • Jenna Wheeler, Jenna Wheeler Design & Consulting
  • Darci Standefer, Lived Experience & Equity Program Advisory Board Member
  • David Hill, Ko-Kwel Wellness Center
  • Sarah Callegari, City of Eugene Municipal Court & Executive Steering Committee Liaison
  • Shayna Higashi, Lane County Equity Program
  • Akoda Tilmant, Lane County Behavioral Health
  • Cappy Paquin, Ko-Kwel Wellness Center
  • Amanda June Tyler, Lane Community College & Ophelia's Place
  • Melinda Zugelder, Lane County Health & Human Services
  • Laura Dahill, The ARC Lane County

Advisors:
  • Linda Studer-Ellis, Connections Health Solutions
  • Ryan Furr-Johnson, Connections Health Solutions
  • Cathy Soutar, Lane County Capital Planning