Oregon has more accurate datasets. But statute requires that the funding formula use on child poverty estimates the U.S.

In a perfect world, every child would be treated with care ... Oregon is one of 35 states, along with the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, that have laws in place specifically protecting ...

Oregon's foster ... complaint filed in U.S. District Court details stories of foster children being neglected or harmed while under Department of Human Services care, including a 16-year-old ...

Oregon’s foster care system could soon face additional monitoring ... The lawsuit was supposed to go to trial this past Monday in Eugene. But U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken pushed the trial ...

Oregon lawmakers are considering ... that showed in real-time where kids were. This map from 2019 shows the number of times children in foster care were placed in residential treatment facilities ...

Plaintiffs alleging widespread dysfunction within Oregon ... foster care system can now sue on behalf of all children within that system, a judge ruled this week. With that decision by U.S ...

She said that she was listening to the radio one day when she felt a calling from God to adopt — later deciding to adopt two children from Oregon's foster care ... U.S. District Court Judge ...

One day last summer, it was the unlikely setting for a reckoning over efforts to reform the state’s foster care system ... Tim Colahan, the head of the Oregon District Attorneys Association ...