>>5987554 pb oregon foster kids

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/03/oregon-sends-hundreds-of-foster-kids-to-former-jails-institutions-not-families.html

ROSEBURG — A move to improve the care of foster children relegated to living in hotels has resulted in 25 percent more children removed from their families being housed in institutions such as former juvenile jails, The Oregonian/OregonLive has found.

The children being sent to cinderblock facilities are often the most traumatized and difficult to care for. Most are teens but the state is looking at expanding institutional programs for children as young as six.

A year ago, Oregon child welfare leaders signed a court settlement promising to stop housing vulnerable foster children in hotels, state offices and juvenile detention centers instead of with families.

State caseworkers had increasingly relied on those makeshift methods as Oregon faced a shortage of foster homes, particularly ones equipped to care for children grappling with trauma, mental health challenges or developmental disabilities.

One year after the settlement, child welfare officials say they’ve complied and begun phasing out their use of hotel rooms as temporary homes for children in the state’s care.

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creepy they had them in hotels rooms

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Oregon foster children relegated to living in hotels

they are in old prison now, they were in hotels before that.

http://medicalkidnap.com/2019/03/29/is-oregon-trafficking-children-out-of-state-via-their-foster-care-system/

A 2016 lawsuit was filed against the state for housing foster children in hotels and offices.

https://www.nccprblog.org/2019/03/oregons-child-welfare-director-wants-to.html

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Oregon’s child welfare director wants to institutionalize five-year-olds!

Some of the “littles,” as Marilyn Jones so cloyingly calls them, could wind up in “repurposed” juvenile jails.

https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/opinion/2019/02/22/oregon-sends-some-foster-children-out-state-specialized-care-services-guest-opinion-marilyn-jones/2920482002/

Since 2015 the number of the most specialized care facilities in Oregon, including Psychiatric Residential Treatment Services for youths, have lost 67 beds – half of the system’s total capacity. Simply put, we are customers of a declining business sector in Oregon.

Oregon, like other states with small populations, needs to use out-of-state services. Currently, more than 80 children are being served out of state. We know where they are every day, we know how they are doing, and we want everyone to know how this system works on behalf of our children.

We work through the juvenile court system, where a judge must sign an order to place children out of state.

Since 1975 Oregon has followed the rules and procedures of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, uniform legislation adopted by all 50 states that mandates any placement must be approved and monitored through the compact.

https://www.nccprblog.org/2019/02/the-mind-numbing-mediocrity-of-oregons.html

Among the justifications offered up for shipping Oregon foster children to an allegedly abusive institution in Iowa: Oregon is a small state, so it doesn’t have the "best treatment services."

Iowa is a smaller state.

First a quick review:

1. Disability Rights Washington issues a report alleging widespread abuse and prison-like conditions at Clarinda Academy an institution in Iowa to which Washington State sends foster children it doesn’t know what to do with.

1. Washington State responds by promising to take the foster children for whom it has responsibility out of this allegedly awful place – and move them to other institutions.

1. Oregon Public Broadcasting reveals that Oregon also is shipping foster children to Clarinda.

fits the timeline of pb notable