Regional Interests

'OPB Politics Now:' Oregon’s Troubled Foster Care System

Oregon Public Broadcasting | By Jeff Mapes, Allison Frost, Lauren Dake

Published March 22, 2019 at 10:00 AM PDT

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<p>Inside the Youth Villages headquarters in Nashville. It aims to support kids by providing in-home services to the whole family, keeping kids out of the foster system or residential facilities whenever possible.</p> — Inside the Youth Villages headquarters in Nashville. It aims to support kids by providing in-home services to the whole family, keeping kids out of the foster system or residential facilities whenever possible.

OPB has spent months digging deep on how Oregon handles its most vulnerable children.

The short answer? Poorly. Foster children have been abused and neglected. The state is so strapped for space that they’ve housed kids in motels and shuttered jails and even shipped them out of state.

In this episode of "OPB Politics Now," we take a closer look at what’s plaguing the state’s child welfare system.