The Oregon Department of Human Services has named a new leader for its child welfare program ... Jones will take over after working as a district manager in Baker City. She and her family ...

A 19-year-old dad has been charged in the killing of his newborn son in Oregon ... Clackamas County District Attorney’s Office said in an April 28 news release. The child’s mom went to ...

Such deaths tend to happen sporadically throughout the year, Oregon Deputy Child Welfare Director Molly ... deeply missed by all who knew him,” the district superintendent wrote in a letter ...

Oregon child welfare authorities had extensive contact ... according to court records. The Lincoln County district attorney reviewed the investigation into Joshua’s death and declined to file ...

The measure would also give the state’s child welfare officials ... an OPB investigation, Oregon canceled the contract with the provider. Two years ago, a U.S. District Court appointed a special ...

Derreck Michael Wilkins, 26, was charged with endangering the welfare of children ... into custody and safely remove the child from his grasp, authorities said. Wilkins was arraigned before ...

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 ...

The department’s current leader, Ross Hunter, has faced calls to resign from DCYF employees and some of Senn’s colleagues in the Legislature over his handling of child welfare and juvenile ...

When Oregon’s sweeping child welfare class action lawsuit was finally ... over-lawyered beyond belief” the case had been. U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken was blunt: She said the case ...

In the months ahead, the state and advocates will map out the specific ... was filed in U.S. District Court in Eugene. The lawsuit alleged the Oregon Department of Human Services, agency director ...

A sweeping class-action lawsuit — where the state of Oregon spent upwards of $18 million taxpayer dollars defending a child welfare system known for well ... human services agency would retaliate. U.S ...

EUGENE – 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 ...