State to centralize IDD licensing; Multnomah adds case managers while reporting large underfunding gap

Sep 24, 2025

Multnomah County's intellectual and developmental disabilities division told commissioners the state will centralize licensing (removing funding from the county), the county will add nine case management positions, but the division still reports an $6.7 million underfunding gap under the state workload model.

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The county’s Division of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) told commissioners that statewide centralization of licensing will shift licensing oversight to the Oregon Office of Developmental Disabilities Services and remove related funding from county budgets, and that the division has both staffing losses and program growth to manage.

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