Oregon DHS Child Welfare Update: Differential Response and Strengthening, Preserving and Reunifying Families Programs
On May 1 2014, the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) Child Welfare Program announced the start of its statewide rollout of Differential Response (DR) to screened-in reports of abuse or neglect. Lane, Lake, and Klamath counties are the first to implement DR. This presentation to the legislature given DHS Child Welfare Director Louis Day and DHS Differential Response Safety Manager Stacy Lake presented the concepts behind DR and how DHS is implementing DR statewide . . .
