Copact

07/10/2025

The 2025 legislative session wasn’t full of mental health victories as we hoped. However HB 2016 did get a W! Congratulations to all involved in making this happen 🥳👏🏻 The origin story of this bill was one practitioner that saw an issue, and contacted their legislator, as well as other stakeholders in the field. It goes to show that you CAN make a difference and enact change.

05/29/2025

ATTENTION! We need to find COPACT’s next leader. Nomination forms were sent via listserv. We will be accepting nominations until June 30th.

05/10/2025

Be there or be…perfectly wonderful doing whatever you’re doing instead. But we’d love to have ya.

04/08/2025

Oregon therapists, registered associates & grad students:
You deserve fair treatment, real protections, and a voice in legislation.

COPACT is fighting for just that—but we can’t do it alone.

Swipe through to see what’s at stake, and how your monthly donation supports real, ongoing advocacy at the Capitol.

Donate today: https://or-counseling.org/ORCA-Foundation

{note: HB 2029 credit-Oregon Mental Health Providers PAC}

04/06/2025

Happy weekend to all who celebrate 😉 Next meeting is May 7th. As a reminder, our meetings are open to anyone that is interested in attending!

03/15/2025

Agenda topics include: legislative updates, post lobby day updates, and fundraising.

03/10/2025

HB 2016 is chiefly sponsored by The language states, “Requires the Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists to establish a schedule of violations and remove from the board’s website and publicly accessible publications information related to a licensee’s or associate’s violations after a specified time.” This bill does have a hearing scheduled for next tuesday, March 18th. If you would like to submit a letter of opinion, do so this week!

03/03/2025

This is the last week to RSVP if you’d like to join us for our 2025 Lobby Day. This is a great opportunity to meet your representatives and advocate for mental health in Oregon. The link to RSVP was sent via listserv 📧

02/21/2025

Sahara Miller is a Licensed Professional Counselor and the owner of Sahara Miller Counseling, LLC. In her private practice, Sahara supports clients navigating trauma, OCD, anxiety, relationship challenges, and codependence. As a board member and networking chair for COPACT, she is dedicated to raising awareness about the organization, amplifying the collective voice of counseling professionals, and addressing systemic concerns to strengthen the field. Contact for her is
COPACT-networking@or-counseling.org

02/19/2025

Next up, 📑 HB 2029 which we are calling the Audit BOR for Providers. The chief sponsor for this bill is who is also the Chair for the House Committee on BH and Healthcare. “The Act limits how insurers, OHA and CCOs may conduct audits. Imposes requirements and restrictions on insurer and coordinated care organization audits of claims for reimbursement submitted by behavioral health treatment providers.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to collaborate with health care providers that provide care to medical assistance enrollees, coordinated care organizations, community groups that advocate for diversity and health equity and health care industry representatives to develop recommendations for processes by which payers audit health care providers’ claims for reimbursement.” There is currently no hearing date scheduled, but as always we will keep you updated as we have relevant dates.

02/14/2025

I’ve got two upcoming town halls this Saturday. We have a lot to talk about. If you’re in the area, I hope you’ll join me.

11/04/2024