Child Welfare Director Aprille Flint-Gerner announced Tuesday she was resigning after two years leading Oregon’s beleaguered child-welfare system. Flint-Gerner’s last day is June 20.

Attorney Laurie Tochiki joins producer/host Coralie Chun Matayoshi to discuss the Malama ‘Ohana Working Group’s recommendations to the Legislature to improve the child welfare system ...

A battle is brewing ahead of the 2025 legislative session over a state plan that some child welfare advocates say would scale back a decade of regulatory reforms intended to better protect Oregon ...

They were shuffled from foster home to foster home, physically abused and emotionally scarred. On Thursday, they spoke out on behalf of Oregon’s 4,500 children in the state’s foster care ...

(KATU) — An Oregon 17-year-old foster child died by ... by this devastating loss,” said Aprille Flint-Gerner, ODHS child welfare director. “We also acknowledge the grief felt by state ...

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 ...

In 2023, Public Knowledge (PK) completed a new assessment on Oregon’s child welfare agency. This was a follow-up to an independent review conducted in 2016 that highlighted numerous challenges ...

The old way: The Oregon Department of Human Services would look to take a child away from its parents if the child was thought to be in danger. The new way: DHS is trying — when possible — to ...

Though Sigo’s household had not previously been registered as a foster home, the federal law gave the tribe’s child welfare program and courts the authority to place Kylie Cordero in Sigo’s ...

(KOIN) — Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, alongside 22 other attorneys general, submitted a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.