Christmas will come early to six hundred Oregon Department of Human Services foster care children and teens in East County. Restore Hope, a local nonprofit that works to keep youth safe from sexual abuse, this month presented DHS regional caseworkers with filled green and red stockings for distribution by the Gresham office. Many local organizations […]
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. It is a time when our country normally turns its attention to recognition of a problem that affects far too many young children and teens every day during the year. According to experts, victims come from all walks of life and no definitive profile of offenders exists. Child […]
Are we failing Oregon’s foster kids? A January audit from the Secretary of State uncovered serious shortcomings in how Oregon’s Department of Human Services has handled foster care, including chronic mismanagement and irresponsibility, overburdened caseworkers, and a common practice of children with nowhere else to stay having to sleep in hotels or their caseworker’s office. […]
