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Laura Finley manages the sanctuary side of the Rescue Ranch operation.

Oregon鈥檚 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.

Christine Burkhart, Vice President for Strategic Partnerships at The Global Fund for Children.

The plaintiffs have accepted the offer, which is the agency鈥檚 largest award in Oregon history to settle a foster care lawsuit.

Independent watchdog鈥檚 draft report obtained by OPB argues that 鈥渨hole child care鈥� and changes in state agencies are required to stop this practice.

Medford Garden Railroaders moved into a vacant space at the Rogue Valley Mall for the holiday season, displaying trains of many sizes for kids big and small to come in and watch.

OPB wrote about the nonprofit Dynamic Life Inc. last month, noting the organization grew at a shocking rate over a short time fueled by taxpayer鈥檚 dollars and placed children in unlicensed short-term rental homes. Several attorneys and children鈥檚 advocates raised questions about the type of care children were receiving when placed with Dynamic Life.

So far, more than 4,000 infants in Oregon have received Nirsevimab and will have some protection against severe RSV this winter, but many more are eligible and demand has outstripped supply.

State officials are paying a religious nonprofit more than 100 times the amount they pay foster care parents to watch vulnerable children in unlicensed short-term rental homes.

At least several thousand were affected while thousands of others who don鈥檛 qualify for Medicaid will keep their insurance.

Aalthough Oregon has invested tens of millions of dollars into expanding preschool and child care since 2019, that money has done little to improve access to infant and toddler care in some areas where it鈥檚 needed most.

Now that federal emergency funding for child care has expired, child care facilities face difficult choices about how to operate with less.