Ascending Flow uses music and mentorship to support youth aging out of Oregon’s foster care system Outside a building bathed in colorful graffiti along Southeast 122nd Avenue in Portland’s Mill Park neighborhood, several young men sporting tattoos, high t ...
7 Dec 2022 - Libby Dowsett
An Oregon-developed model of foster care aims for reunification Editor’s note: As part of Street Roots’ ongoing solutions-based reporting on the foster care system, Street Roots took a deep dive into the national and local data on placement stability and ...
10 Nov 2021 - Libby Dowsett
‘PAUSE’ calls in Georgia require extra steps be taken before removal of youth from their foster placements As part of Street Roots’ ongoing solutions-based reporting on the foster care system, Street Roots took a deep dive into the national and local data ...
3 Nov 2021 - Libby Dowsett
Iowa's ‘4 questions, 7 judges’ program aims to minimize unnecessary removals Editor’s note: As part of Street Roots’ ongoing solutions-based reporting on the foster care system, Street Roots took a deep dive into the national and local data on placem ...
27 Oct 2021 - Libby Dowsett
In hopes of improving the placement stability in the state's foster care system Iowa implemented a ‘No Eject/No Reject’ policy As part of Street Roots’ ongoing solutions-based reporting on the foster care system, Street Roots took a deep dive into th ...
20 Oct 2021 - Libby Dowsett
Former foster youth speak on their experience with a lack of placement stability while in Oregon's foster care system In response to Oregon’s high number of moves and disruptions for young people in foster care, Street Roots, with funding and collabo ...
13 Oct 2021 - Libby Dowsett
Oregon nonprofit hires former foster youth to help distribute pandemic relief Four young “peer navigators” from Fosterclub are contacting current and former foster youth and encouraging them to apply for the COVID-related emergency cash assistance by the ...
1 Sep 2021 - Libby Dowsett
‘If you have good data on a suspect, why do you need to lie to get them to confess?’ says the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Chris Gorsek A 15-year-old boy worn down by interrogators falsely confesses to killing his little sister after detectives tell him they ha ...
7 Apr 2021 - Libby Dowsett
Current and former foster youths, as well as foster parents, struggle with effects of isolation and economic hardship Current and former foster youths in Oregon are crying out for help. Along with an ongoing need for food and extended housing, many alread ...
3 Feb 2021 - Libby Dowsett
Calls to Oregon’s child abuse hotline remain down, but that doesn't mean cases have decreased Child advocates at Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel said that while the number of calls to Oregon’s child abuse hotline are substantially down ...
20 Jan 2021 - Libby Dowsett