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Kristyna Wentz-Graff/OPBA legislative hearing earlier this year highlighted that a child welfare watchdog doesn't have a ton of independence. -
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The wide-ranging bill would create exceptions to send children out-of-state for care and change definitions around restraints and seclusions. Proponents believe it will help more kids get care. Some advocates are worried it will cause more harm.
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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鈥� -
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鈥� -
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鈥� -
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鈥� -
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鈥� -
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鈥�
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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鈥�
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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鈥� -
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鈥� -
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�
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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,鈥�
