Sanctuary Stage will begin research focusing on Oregon's shortage of foster parents. Over the past several years, workers with the Oregon Department of Human Services grew increasingly reliant on a private, for-profit company to house the state’s most vulnerable children in out-of-state facilities.
Recent research has found a litany of unsettling stories of children in the state’s care winding up abused, neglected and generally left to fend for themselves far from home. OPB reviewed police reports, case files and thousands of emails exchanged between Oregon child welfare workers and employees at Sequel Youth and Family Services, which housed the majority of youth sent out of state.
