DHS director lauds progress in child safety campaign
Friday, August 13, 2010
Alan Gustafson, Statesman Journal
State efforts to improve the safety of Oregon children are paying off, Human Services Director Bruce Goldberg said Friday.
In his “director’s message,” circulated to employees of the state Department of Human Services, Goldberg highlighted achievements made since a 2007 critical report “showed starkly that we needed to do more to keep children safe in Oregon.”
Summing up reported progress, Goldberg wrote: “Today fewer children are being abused or neglected in foster care, fewer children experience repeat abuse, more children are returning sooner and safely to their families, more children who cannot return home are being adopted sooner, and fewer children experience more than two foster family placements.”
Goldberg praised the efforts of child welfare workers and managers: “We have come a long way since 2007 thanks to child welfare front line staff and managers across the state and the leadership of Erinn Kelley-Siel, who joined DHS in 2008. We still have more work to do. We cannot rest until every child with whom we have contact is safe. But this kind of progress is heartening.”
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