SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — The Oregon Senate approved a bill that significantly expands the rights of foster children in the state.

House Bill 2027 centers on when a child can and cannot be removed from a foster home. The measure, House Bill 2027, says that if a child has been in an appropriate and safe foster care arrangement ...

but a primary search of the home was conducted as a precaution. According to Salem fire, attempts to enter the house was found to be difficult due to a large amount of personal belongings ...

Construction will soon be finished on a new Winter Island facility for Plummer Youth Promise to provide foster youth with a ...

Oregon lawmakers are considering a wide-ranging measure, House Bill 3835, that would simplify what is investigated as child abuse in both schools and foster homes. The measure would also give the ...

SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — Just after the Oregon Senate approved a bill to significantly expand the rights of foster children in ... It now advances to the Oregon House of Representatives for ...

[lively music] Mikaila Hopper was 12 years old when she entered foster care. Over the next six years, she moved home 23 different times. - So I think if you take anybody, even an adult, and change ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –A bill that would change the circumstances for when a foster child may be removed from a foster home passed the house Wednesday. Adam Burkhammer HB 2027, which aims to reduce ...

Jacob, like many kids placed in Oregon’s care, bounced around, moving more than 50 times between short-term rentals, residential treatment centers and foster homes. But he spent much of the last ...

In 2017 Senate Bill 11 created Community Based Care. It took the responsibility of placing foster children in homes from Child Protective Services to local contractors, like TFCN. The goal is for ...

Department of Child Safety money to house children in group homes was ... Rescue Plan Act money in December to pay for foster kids' group homes. State Sen. Brian Fernandez, a senator from ...