AFFEC stuff:
OUR MISSION is to find loving, permanent families for every waiting foster child.
ACE Advocate---Connect---Educate
ORS 418.575-598 is SB 964 as codified. There are three apparent main points: (1) AFFEC is a county partner ---ORS 418.575(3); (2) family finding is a Strengthening, Preserving and Unifying Families program ---ORS 418.580(3)(j); and (3) DHS and juvenile court must explain in writing why family finding, if not done, was not in the best interests of the child ---ORS 418.595(2).
541.343.2856--------541.954.9626
AFFEC-DHS correspondence re: Family Finding
FAMILY FINDING ONE-SHEET 5-2015
DHS family finding procedure 2013 --the version we first found FROM DHS internal website
SB 964 from 2011 legislative session
Foster care information resources webpage
ROUGH NUMBERS OF THE COST OF FOSTER CARE IN OREGON
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Statistical tools from the government
Statistical tools from US Dept of Health & Human Services
MSH's amateur-quality financial report
GREAT video (12 minutes long / Molly McGrath Tierney was the Director for the Baltimore City Department of Social Services, managing the City's child welfare and public assistance programs. Over the past six years, she has led a massive reform effort to dramatically improve the impact of services to vulnerable citizens of Baltimore. Molly's work is considered a national model for modern social services.)