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Illustration by Kristyna Wentz-Graff/OPBThe settlement stipulates Disability Rights Oregon and the state will agree upon a 鈥渘eutral,鈥� an expert to oversee the foster care system and work with the individual to improve the child-welfare system, primarily by reducing the rate of mistreatment and improving the quality of placements. -
Kaylee DomzalskiIn 2019, a national advocacy group filed a class-action lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Human Services, alleging the state mistreats children in its foster care system and has failed to fix glaring problems. Five years and millions of dollars later, the next trial has been delayed as the two sides near a settlement agreement.
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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. -
The plaintiffs have accepted the offer, which is the agency鈥檚 largest award in Oregon history to settle a foster care lawsuit. -
The suit says the state Department of Human Services ignored complaints about abuse, injuries and neglect and kept children in the home. -
The numbers of child abuse cases continue to climb in Douglas County, and not just in the population center around Roseburg. So the organization taking鈥� -
The children's advocacy center concept has helped authorities investigate child sex abuse cases; advocacy centers are quiet, comfortable places for鈥� -
The people of Lane County had had enough. They watched as child abuse rates stayed stubbornly high in the county, and wanted to bring them down. So 90by30鈥�
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We've made inroads in limiting child abuse and neglect, but there's more road to travel. A number of organizations gathered in Oregon over the last year鈥� -
We have come a very long way indeed from the days when spanking and belting children was common and accepted. It's not just that children don't especially鈥� -
David Pittman began writing a blog about being sexually abused as a teenager. The blog caught on, and led to the formation of a non-profit group, Together鈥�
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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鈥� -
Child abuse is more widely recognized than ever before, and the work of eliminating it continues.Lane County is home to the 90 by 30 program, an effort to鈥�
