Commissioner Novick and the Bureau of Emergency Communications will launch Text to 9-1-1 in Portland at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, August 23rd in front of Portland City Hall. They will be joined by Chris Bouneff, Executive Director of the Oregon chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Molly Pringle, Director of Operations for Call to Safety, and Donna Nicklin, Board Director for the Oregon Association of the Deaf.