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OYA community services leaders report higher-acuity caseloads, limited foster-home capacity and $800,000 in startup grants
Summary
OYA’s Assistant Director of Community Services told lawmakers that the agency supervises more youth in the community than in facilities, that average caseloads are about 16–17 youths per staff and that the agency has granted over $800,000 to help start or sustain residential programs this biennium.
Sandra Santos, assistant director for Community Services at the Oregon Youth Authority, told the Ways and Means Public Safety Subcommittee on March 25 that OYA supervises more youth in the community than in its facilities and that, as of January 2025, the agency was supervising 515 youth in the community (305 on probation and 210 on parole).
Santos said community supervision is delivered from 15 field offices and that staff roles include juvenile parole and probation officers, transition officers and…
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