State officials and advisers are working on a child welfare proposal for this year’s session they hope would encourage more ...

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 ...

Human services officials say more treatment options are needed to place children, but lawmakers are concerned lighter regulations will create more problems.

The majority of low-income single mothers in Oregon who rely on federal cash assistance around the time of childbirth are in ...

It expands a new waiver program at the Oregon Department of Human Services. Lawmakers created ... It would allow every child who qualifies under the CEN waiver to use their parents for a certain ...

Oregon lawmakers return ... independent from the Oregon Department of Human Services and granting the ombudsman subpoena power and access to various records. A child advocacy advisory board ...