Oregon’s failure for the Advancement of care almost all respects
A new revision of the federal constitution Oregon’s Child Welfare Program will be no state in 11 of 14 regions of vital importance to the safety and well-being of children in home care.
Among the findings: Oregon has a serious lack of care, reports of mistreatment are not quickly addressed, children do not receive mental health care they need and are not Case Check-in working with children or their parents as often as expected.
More than 12000 children - thousands live in temporary care centres - are in custody in the state at some point.
During the year 2001 was a similar revision of the Confederation, which Oregon’s Child Welfare safety net do not meet the standards in eight key areas. The standards of this period were, Oregon and bottom scores in the new report.
State officials say that the results were so bad, as it had feared.
Dir Ted Kulongoski, grew up in an orphanage, “he said in anger after the reading of a draft and pledged personally see that the problems are solved.
“I identify a lot to these children,” said Kulongoski The Oregonian on Friday. “I was in a number of situations where I lived with other people, when I was younger …. These children, not their fault, they are mistreated a lot of time, whether physical abuse, psychological or violence is simply negligible. And they are only children. ”
No state audit of the Confederation in 2001. Officials of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, went to Washington Friday to comment on the latest results of Oregon.
But critics federal, Oregon September visited in the past, and combed over 65 cases, was sometimes on the mat, which is found and reviewed information on the status of poor performance.
For example, they read 11 of 65 cases have not shown caseworker visits to a child over a longer period. In some cases, several months between visits.
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