Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead for a new process that officials say will make better, ...

On March 31, AEI hosted a discussion on child welfare priorities, moderated by AEI’s Naomi Schaefer Riley. Experts Jedd Medefind of the Christian Alliance for Orphans, Rachel N. Morrison of the Ethics ...

Five years ago, a national advocacy group and a local nonprofit filed a class-action lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Human Services. They didn’t want money. They wanted better care for kids ...

The trial between the state of Oregon and the advocacy group suing the state over its mistreatment of kids placed in foster care has been delayed as the two sides near a settlement agreement. The ...

Nearly one-third of child deaths investigated last year by the Oregon Department of Human Services involved children with intellectual or developmental disabilities — a pattern that raises questions ...

Oregon’s child welfare system, which previously yanked too many children from their homes, then gave some of them too little protection and care, has made measurable strides on key targets for child ...

Oregon child welfare officials have spent years struggling to find appropriate places to house the state’s most vulnerable children. When Oregon’s sweeping child welfare class-action lawsuit was ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- State officials and advisers are working on a child welfare proposal for this year’s session they hope would encourage more providers to offer treatment to foster children with ...

A bill to scale back the grounds for Oregon child welfare investigations in order to allow more focus on serious cases appears in jeopardy in the Legislature. The proposal, which resulted from ...