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Oregon’s child welfare agency has been in and out of court since 2019, defending against a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of every child in foster care in the state.
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The plaintiffs have accepted the offer, which is the agency’s largest award in Oregon history to settle a foster care lawsuit.
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Problems in Oregon's foster care system in recent years demonstrated the severe shortage of places to house children who have been removed from their…
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Oregon has long lacked an adequate number of foster homes for all of the children in foster care. And after revelations of children sleeping in hotel…
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Oregon's struggling child foster care system took another hit recently. The Audit Division of the Secretary of State's Office released an audit that…
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Oregon's foster care system for children needs a lot of work, there's general agreement on that. A lawsuit against the state revealed issues caused by…
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The flow of children into foster care ebbs and flows, and it is flowing now, in a big way. The number of children who have entered the foster care system…
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The child foster care system can't seem to stay out of the news for long. The very concept of foster care comes with some issues: removing children from…
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Taking children away from their parents and placing them in foster homes can be a bumpy process for all the people involved. Just ask the young people who…
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Foster care for children always begins with a crisis. Child welfare agencies do not have the luxury of planning in advance to remove children from…
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More than a quarter of a million children go into foster care in the United States every year, often because they were abused or neglected at home. The…
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Ashley Rhodes lived in a foster home. Then another, and another, and so on.14 foster homes in all, before she was adopted at age 12. Now Ashley…
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Lane, Klamath and Lake Counties are the first in Oregon to adopt a Different Response Model that could reduce placements of children in foster care.May is…
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Foster care is meant to keep children safe and healthy, but taking kids away from their parents is tough on everyone involved: children, birth parents,…