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Oregon bill would expand child-welfare reporting to track foster-care outcomes
Summary
Lawmakers and witnesses urged passage of House Bill 3003 to require the Department of Human Services to include more disaggregated and outcomes-focused data in its annual child-welfare report to reveal placement stability and racial and geographic disparities in foster care.
Representative Travis Nelson, a Portland Democrat, told the House Committee on Early Childhood and Human Services on Feb. 25 that House Bill 3003 would require more detailed annual reporting from the Oregon Department of Human Services on children in state custody.
"Without comprehensive data, it is impossible to fully understand the scope of these challenges or to implement the necessary changes to improve outcomes for foster youth," Representative Travis Nelson said. He described the bill as the product of work by the Oregon Advocacy Commission under House Bill 4052 (2022) and said the measure would allow officials to identify disparities by race and geography…
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