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Statutes
Oregon Revised Statutes
that relate to Family Support
417.300 Purpose of ORS 417.305
417.305 Legislative findings relating to serving children and
families
417.705 Definitions for ORS 417.705 to 417.797
Note Report to Legislative Assembly--1999 c.1053 §45
417.708 Legislative findings relating to young children
417.710 Statement of purpose
417.715 Policy; service system values and goals
417.720 Characteristics of service system
417.725 Key elements of system; family resource and community
learning centers.
417.300
Purpose of ORS 417.305.
The purpose of ORS 417.305 is to establish a state policy for
serving Oregon’s children and families, in recognition that
addressing the needs, strengths and assets of children necessarily
requires addressing the needs, strengths and assets of families and
communities, and to direct state agencies to work in partnership
with local communities to plan, coordinate and provide programs
accordingly. [1989 c.834 §2; 1999 c.1053 §1]
417.305 Legislative findings
relating to serving children and families.
(1) The Legislative Assembly finds and declares that:
(a) Children are our future;
(b) Healthy children and families are of fundamental importance
to the vitality of Oregon;
(c) Children are entitled to safety and health;
(d) All children deserve love, respect and guidelines for
responsible behavior;
(e) Families should be supported and strengthened;
(f) Communities provide the context for healthy children and
families, and strong families
and healthy communities are interdependent; and
(g) Economic opportunity and social cohesion are essential for
healthy communities.
(2) The Legislative Assembly recognizes that demands on families,
created in part by changes in family structures and relationships,
intensify the need for Oregon to support children and families
toward the goals of family stability and broader access for
children, youth and families to:
(a) The best possible physical and mental health;
(b) Adequate food and safe physical shelter;
(c) A safe and healthy environment;
(d) The highest quality child care;
(e) The highest quality of educational opportunity;
(f) Quality education;
(g) Effective training, apprenticeship and productive
employment;
(h) A range of civic, cultural, educational, family support and
positive youth development
programs and activities that promote self-esteem,
involvement and a sense of
community;
(i) Community services that are efficient, coordinated and
readily available; and
(j) Genuine participation in decisions concerning the planning
and managing of their lives
and respect for such decisions.
(3) In the interest of ensuring coordination of all children and
family services and education programs provided by or funded by the
state and the effective use of state resources, the state shall:
(a) Develop a plan for appropriating adequate funds;
(b) Develop a cooperative partnership among state agencies that
serve children, youth and
families;
(c) Establish state priorities; develop and implement service
standards that reflect a
balanced and comprehensive range of services for all
children, youth and families;
monitor and evaluate services and ensure accessibility of
services for all children, youth
and families; and
(d) Actively seek the advice of local governmental
jurisdictions, providers of services,
educators, the private business sector, citizens and youth
in effecting this subsection.
(4) The Legislative Assembly finds that, in order to fulfill the
purposes of this section, service delivery systems for children and
families shall include:
(a) Cooperative partnerships among state agencies that serve
children, youth and families;
(b) Methods of accountability to measure effectiveness of
state-funded programs; and
(c) Use of public resources for programs and services that move
the state toward meeting
the goals described in subsection (2) of this section.
[1989 c.834 §3; 1991 c.715 §1;
1999 c.1053 §2; 2001 c.182 §1; 2001 c.831 §10a; 2003 c.293
§1]
417.705
Definitions for ORS 417.705 to 417.797.
As used in ORS 417.705 to 417.797:
(1) “Community mobilization” means government and private efforts to
increase community awareness and facilitate the active participation
of citizens and organizations in projects and issues that will have
positive impact on the well-being of children, families and
communities.
(2) “Efficiency” means a measurable indicator of the amount of
resources required to produce an output.
(3) “High-level outcome” means the Oregon benchmarks adopted by the
Oregon Progress Board and any other measurable indicators of
societal well-being.
(4) “Intermediate outcome” means a measurable indicator of the
effort by an agency or other entity toward achieving a high-level
outcome target.
(5) “Local commission” means a local commission on children and
families established pursuant to ORS 417.760.
(6) “Local coordinated comprehensive plan” or “local plan” means a
local coordinated comprehensive plan for children and families that
is developed pursuant to ORS 417.775 through a process coordinated
and led by a local commission and that consists of:
(a) A community plan that identifies the community’s needs,
strengths, goals, priorities
and strategies for:
(A) Creating positive outcomes for children and
families;
(B) Community mobilization;
(C) Coordinating programs, strategies and services for
children who are 0 through
18 years of age and their families among
community groups, government
agencies, private providers and other parties;
and
(D) Addressing the needs of target populations; and
(b) The service plans listed in ORS 417.775 (6) that designate
specific services for the
target populations identified in the community plan.
(7) “Outcome” means the measure of a desired result.
(8) “Output” means the amount or frequency of products or services
delivered by an agency or other entity.
(9) “Performance measure” includes outcomes, outputs and
efficiencies that indicate how well an agency or other entity is
carrying out its mission and achieving its goals.
(10) “Services for children and families” does not include services
provided by the Department of Education or school districts that are
related to curriculum or instructional programs.
(11) “State commission” means the State Commission on Children and
Families established under ORS 417.730.
(12) “Target” means a specific level of achievement desired for a
specific time, expressed numerically. [1993 c.676 §30; 1999 c.1053
§3; 2003 c.148 §1; 2003 c.553 §1]
Note: Section 45, chapter 1053, Oregon
Laws 1999, provides:
Sec. 45. Report to Legislative Assembly. (1) The State Commission on
Children and Families, the Juvenile Crime Prevention Advisory
Committee and the Governor’s Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Programs shall report to the Seventy-second Legislative Assembly,
and to the Seventy-third Legislative Assembly by February 1, 2005,
on the implementation of chapter 1053, Oregon Laws 1999, on both the
state and local levels.
(2) The State Commission on Children and Families shall include in
the report recommendations on any additional proposals contained in
“A Positive Future for Oregon’s Children and Families” by the
1991-1992 Oregon Children’s Care Team Interim Task Force that should
be undertaken. [1999 c.1053 §45; 2003 c.148 §5]
417.708 Legislative findings
relating to young children.
The Legislative Assembly finds:
(1) The first three years of life are a crucial period in a child’s
life, and during this period a child is sensitive to the protective
mechanisms of parental and family support.
(2) Brain development that takes place during the first year of life
is rapid and extensive and has implications for lifelong physical,
social-emotional and cognitive well-being. [2001 c.831 §2]
417.710 Statement of purpose.
Subject to the availability of funds there for and the specific
provisions of ORS 417.705 to 417.797 and 419A.170, it is the purpose
of ORS 417.705 to 417.797 and 419A.170 to:
(1) Authorize the State Commission on Children and Families to set
statewide guidelines for the planning, coordination and delivery of
services for children and families in conjunction with other state
agencies and other planning bodies;
(2) Vest in local commissions on children and families the authority
to distribute state and federal funds allocated to the local
commissions to supervise services or to purchase services for
children and families in the local area and to supervise the
development of the local coordinated comprehensive plan;
(3) Provide a process for comprehensive local planning for services
for children and families to provide local services that are
consistent with statewide guidelines;
(4) Retain in the state the responsibility for funding of services
for children and families through a combination of local, state and
federal funding, including the leveraging of public and private
funds available under ORS 417.705 to 417.797 and 419A.170; and
(5) Retain state supervision of child protection and other services
that should be uniform throughout the state and that are necessarily
the state’s responsibility. [1993 c.676 §1; 1999 c.1053 §4; 2003
c.553 §2]
417.715 Policy; service system
values and goals.
(1) It is the intent of the Legislative Assembly to enable families
and communities to protect, nurture and realize the full physical,
social, emotional, cognitive and cultural developmental potential of
children in Oregon. Toward this end, the Legislative Assembly shall
develop and implement a statewide system of services that is
preventive, integrated in local communities and accessible to
children and families and that focuses on promoting the wellness of
Oregon’s children.
(2) The service system shall be based on promoting the wellness of
Oregon’s children and families. The following values shall guide the
design and implementation of this system:
(a) A commitment to children that ranks them as Oregon’s first
priority;
(b) A commitment to reducing the number of Oregon’s children and
families living in
poverty;
(c) A commitment to equitable treatment of gender in both
services and funding;
(d) A view that strengthening families is of paramount concern,
but that child safety must
come first if a conflict between the well-being of a child
and the well-being of a family
arises;
(e) A recognition of the central role of families as the best
place for children to develop;
(f) A realization that good parenting skills are fundamental to
a healthy society;
(g) A sensitivity to diversity that requires culturally
competent services respectful of
genders, cultures, orientations and disabilities;
(h) An offering of opportunities for children to develop
self-worth and concern for others, and
to reach their full potential;
(i) A fundamental assumption that children should be provided
the means to attain safety
and good health; and
(j) A commitment to early detection and treatment of families at
risk for child abuse and
neglect.
(3) The service system shall emphasize:
(a) Services designed to identify risks and nurture potential at
the earliest time in a child’s
life;
(b) Services designed to respond to and reduce risks at the
earliest possible point of
detection;
(c) A comprehensive continuum of services such as prevention,
early intervention and
treatment for children in all age groups;
(d) The realization that funding one age group or gender of
children at the expense of
another is destructive of the wellness of children; and
(e) That maintenance and enhancement of treatment services and
augmentation of
preventive services are paramount to the effective delivery
of services to children and
families.
(4) The service system must begin at the local level, through
cooperation and integration of all local and state providers, treat
the whole person and be built on the strengths and natural supports
of neighborhoods and communities. [1993 c.676 §1a]
417.720 Characteristics of service
system.
The characteristics of the service system developed and implemented
under ORS 417.705 to 417.797 and 419A.170 are that the system:
(1) Is non-stigmatizing;
(2) Is available and accessible when needed and is based on the
perspective of children and families and, whenever possible, allows
families to design their own service programs, based on assessment
of their needs and their solutions and resources for change;
(3) Is outcome-oriented;
(4) Is integrated;
(5) Recognizes the contributions of the system’s workers;
(6) Promotes in the community a sense of responsibility for self and
others and is committed to the well-being of children as well as
support for families;
(7) Emphasizes local planning for children and families and
integrates local needs with statewide goals;
(8) Provides services locally in a process that encourages
partnerships, alliances and efficient use of resources; and
(9) Provides local service delivery systems that build on the unique
strengths of the county or community. [1993 c.676 §2]
417.725 Key elements of system;
family resource and community learning centers. (1) Key elements
of the service system developed and implemented under ORS 417.705 to
417.797 and 419A.170 are:
(a) A two-to-seven-year incremental implementation process with
measurable outcomes;
(b) An implementation process resulting in a voluntary system based
on nurturing human development; and
(c) A service continuum based on promoting wellness for the children
of Oregon whose parents have given their express written consent.
Family resource centers and community learning centers as defined in
ORS 329.007 are a viable, but not the exclusive, structure for
delivering a service continuum.
(2) If a system of family resource centers and community learning
centers is selected by a local commission on children and families
established pursuant to ORS 417.760 to deliver services, the
centers:
(a) May serve as the prevention arm of the voluntary delivery system
and may link and integrate neighborhood-based services with the
intent that services be available to all families who have given
their express written consent to promote their children’s wellness;
(b) Shall involve parents in the care and education of their
children;
(c) Shall involve the local community in developing and overseeing
family resource center programs and community learning center
programs;
(d) Shall be consistent with the local coordinated comprehensive
plan; and
(e) Shall incorporate the requirements specified for community
learning centers under ORS 329.156. [1993 c.676 §3; 2001 c.831 §10;
2003 c.153 §1 |
