The Oregon Department of Human Services Child Welfare Division, is urging the public to assist in locating three brothers who ...

The Department of Human services says it follows a clear protocol for when it investigates children's deaths. One lawmaker ...

And when the Harts moved to Oregon from Minnesota, it’s likely that state didn’t report anything amiss, either. Information about specific child welfare cases is difficult to come by because ...

Oregon Child Welfare Director Aprille Flint-Gerner is leaving her post. The state announced Tuesday that Flint-Gerner accepted a job with Casey Family Programs, a national foundation focused on ...

Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead for a new process that officials say will make ...

Two of them now have children of their own. Oregon child welfare officials have spent years struggling to find appropriate places to house the state’s most vulnerable children. Illustration by ...

On her day off, child welfare caseworker Kelly Paluso got a call — a child on her caseload was being taken to the hospital. She arranged care for her own child and rushed to the hospital ...

Michelle Pfeiffer, the Oregon Department of Human Services’ legislative child welfare coordinator, told lawmakers recently that the proposal is designed to encourage the placement of children ...

A scathing audit of Oregon's Child Welfare system released more than a year ago created a disheartening picture of a system where the lives and wellbeing of the state's most vulnerable children ...