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2011 Oregon Revised Statutes
ORS Volume 10, Chapters 366 - 430
ORS Chapter 417
417.747 Foster care demonstration projects.


OR Rev Stat § 417.747 (through Leg Sess 2011) What's This?

(1) The Department of Human Services, in consultation with local commissions on children and families, may establish community-based foster care demonstration projects. The purposes of the demonstration projects are to:

(a) Promote strategies that keep abused and neglected children in their familiar surroundings and neighborhood schools;

(b) Recruit community volunteers to serve as foster parents for abused and neglected children who live in the community;

(c) Identify barriers to recruiting community foster parents and recommend strategies to address those identified barriers; and

(d) Create a community-based system of support for foster children and community foster parents.

(2) A demonstration project shall be subject to federal requirements and the restrictions agreed upon between the department and the county where the demonstration project is located. [1993 c.676 28(3); 1999 c.1053 7; 2001 c.189 1; 2001 c.900 226]

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