Safely Reducing the number of Oregon Children in FOSTER CARE:
The Family Nurturing Center partners with Casey Family Programs, Oregon Commission on Children and Families, and the Department of Human Services .
The Family Nurturing Center is a partner in the Jackson County coalition coming together to address the needs of youth in foster care in Oregon.
Casey Family Programs provide funding for this important program, which will provide a three-month process of developing community-based action plans and long-term strategies with statewide goals to be met by 2011:
- Safely reduce children in foster care by 20%
- Increase relative placements by 50%
- Reduce children entering care by 10%
- Increase foster care exits by 20%
- Reduce the disproportionality index for Native and African American children (numerical goal to be set at the end of 2009)
- Maintain or reduce current child abuse/ neglect recurrence rate of 7.9%
Please call us at (541) 779-5242 for more information on this project and ways you can help.
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