The bill requires that older foster children, those aged 14 or older, receive written information on critical life skills and legal rights within 60 days of placement in a child care facility. READ ...

"The primary reason for that decline is denials from the providers related to children that have needs around their ...

The wide-ranging bill would create exceptions to send children out-of-state for care and change definitions around restraints ...

and the state's System of Care Advisory Council (SOCAC) would loosen the definition of child abuse as it pertains to wrongful restraint and would allow for a number of exceptions to Oregon's ...

Oregon’s public accounting of a foster child's death was misleading and inaccurate, according to the advocacy group ...

: The Oregon Department of Human Services says the boy was found Tuesday, April 1, and thanked the community for its help in ...

The report asserts that the 17-year-old's death in August 2024 was foreseeable and preventable, but the Oregon Department of ...

That program is focused on supporting our foster kids and our foster parents. They’re actually going to go out during nights ...

Others have noted that too many kids are lingering in emergency rooms and hotel rooms because there is a lack of appropriate health and foster care in Oregon. They blame the systemic failures on ...

"The primary reason for that decline is denials from the providers related to children that have needs around their aggression, "she said, adding children remaining in foster care in Oregon can ...