Heather Mirasol, director of behavioral health for Multnomah County, says she plans to leave her position this month.

Mirasol took personal leave earlier this year to care for her children in the wake of a “difficult and long” divorce and the loss of her mother, she wrote in a June 2 email to county staff first reported by The Oregonian . Mirasol is leaving to develop a “plan forward for me and my children that allows them to have the best of me for the years ahead,” she wrote.

Her departure leaves the county with yet another interim leader just as it finalizes its budget for the coming fiscal year.

Anna Plumb is interim head of the county’s homeless services, and Trisa Kelly is interim director of the Office of Diversity & Equity.

Behavioral health, in particular, is rife with int

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