GRANTS PASS, Ore.- Local group Our Foster Kids delivers presents to foster kids through the Oregon Department of Human Services. This year marks sixteen years Our Foster Kids has been partnering with DHS to give back to foster kids during ...
Author: Ashley Koch (KGW) BURNS, Ore. (KGW) — At any given time there are about 5,000 kids in Oregon’s foster care system. A mother in Malheur County says that she wants to adopt two of those kids from foster care, but ...
MEDFORD, Ore. – With temperatures rising, local police want to remind people not to leave animals and kids in hot cars. Police say people who leave animals or kids in cars can get cited for endangerment of an animal or ...
SALEM, Ore. – A new legal settlement between the State of Oregon and CASA, or Court Appointed Special Advocates Incorporated, will keep many foster kids from being put up in hotels. In 2016, CASA Inc. filed a suit against the ...
GRANTS PASS, Ore. – A suspicious briefcase led to the evacuation of a state agency building in Grants Pass. Law enforcement became aware of the situation at the Department of Human Services office on NW Hawthorne Avenue Monday evening. According ...
SALEM, Ore. – Oregon Governor Kate Brown announced her plan to increase staffing for the child welfare division of the Oregon Department of Human Services. The proposal comes after an unfavorable audit of the agency by Oregon Secretary of State ...
Medford, Ore. — Negotiations have broken down in a case to prevent Oregon foster children from staying the night in hotels and offices. Now local social service agencies are doing what they can to relieve the foster parent shortage in ...
Jackson County kids in need of emergency housing are starting to sleep in offices. Beds were recently added at the Department of Human Services to make up for a lack of foster parents. In September of 2011, Jackson County had ...
Oregon — A new report reveals Oregon’s child welfare system is failing in every area possible. The federal study released this week shows only a little more than half of abuse and neglect allegation investigations were completed on time, and in ...