Technobarbarian wrote:
>
> You can be thankful that you have never been in foster care in
> Oregon.
>
> "Oregon is placing foster children in unlicensed short-term rental
> homes and paying millions to do so"
>
> "Oregon child welfare officials have spent years struggling to find
> appropriate places to house the state’s most vulnerable
> children.
>
> Now, after scandals involving their use of hotel rooms and
> out-of-state private facilities, state officials have landed on a
> new — but still trouble-ridden — approach: They are paying a
> religious nonprofit more than 100 times the amount they pay foster
> care parents to watch children in unregulated short-term rental
> homes."
>
> "It’s the latest iteration of a desperate child welfare system
> continually plagued by problems, lawsuits and criticism. The
> practice has gone unpublicized, but inquiries into the new
> arrangement by OPB and attorneys representing children in foster
> care have spurred the state to examine it more closely.
>
> The nonprofit, Dynamic Life Inc., was founded by a former pastor
> based in Keizer, Oregon. Fueled by taxpayer dollars, the nonprofit
> grew at a shocking rate in the past year.
>
> Nathan Webber, who started Dynamic Life and up until recently was
> the CEO, said it started with a phone call from a friend. Webber,
> who has served as a foster parent, said his friend asked him to
> help a kid placed in state care who was destroying a hotel room.
>
> Webber explained it as an almost Biblical tale. He and his sons,
> Isaiah and Josiah, showed up at the hotel in Lincoln City and told
> the kid in foster care they loved him. While the kid kicked and
> screamed and punched, they kept repeating the message: We love
> you.
>
> “You just stand there and let him know you love him, no matter
> what,” Webber said. “He kicks you in the shin, you tell him you
> love him.”
>
> A couple of hours later, the boy, sweating and tired, finally
> stopped being violent, Webber said.
>
> “From there, the state said, ‘Could you do that again? Could
> you possibly do that again?’” Webber said. “And we said,
> ‘Yeah, we think we can do that’ and out of that was created
> Dynamic Life.”
>
> In October 2022, Oregon child welfare officials signed a contract
> with Dynamic Life, noting they could be paid up to $2,916 per day,
> for every child or teenager the state places in their care. Compare
> that to the amount the state’s child welfare system pays a foster
> parent to care for a teenager — which is $795 per month. If a
> child is determined to have high needs, a foster parent is usually
> paid slightly more, an additional $240 to $468 per month, still
> significantly less than what Dynamic Life receives.
>
> In the last 12 months, the state of Oregon has paid the religious
> nonprofit more than $7.75 million to provide support services to
> about 40 kids at risk of temporary lodging and to those already in
> temporary lodging, such as a hotel or short-term rental.
>
> Perhaps more troublesome than the large dollar figure is the lack
> of oversight."
>
> https://www.opb.org/article/2023/11/20/oregon-foster-care-children-sent-to-unlicensed-short-term-rental-homes-millions-for-religious-nonprofit/
>
> The story just keeps getting sadder from there.

Sounds like your leaders out there really know how to efficaciously
manage money.

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bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.

On 11/22/2023 2:12 AM, bfh wrote:
> Technobarbarian wrote:
>>
>> You can be thankful that you have never been in foster care in
>> Oregon.
>>
>> "Oregon is placing foster children in unlicensed short-term rental
>> homes and paying millions to do so"
>>
>> "Oregon child welfare officials have spent years struggling to find
>> appropriate places to house the state’s most vulnerable
>> children.
>>
>> Now, after scandals involving their use of hotel rooms and
>> out-of-state private facilities, state officials have landed on a
>> new — but still trouble-ridden — approach: They are paying a
>> religious nonprofit more than 100 times the amount they pay foster
>> care parents to watch children in unregulated short-term rental
>> homes."
>>
>> "It’s the latest iteration of a desperate child welfare system
>> continually plagued by problems, lawsuits and criticism. The
>> practice has gone unpublicized, but inquiries into the new
>> arrangement by OPB and attorneys representing children in foster
>> care have spurred the state to examine it more closely.
>>
>> The nonprofit, Dynamic Life Inc., was founded by a former pastor
>> based in Keizer, Oregon. Fueled by taxpayer dollars, the nonprofit
>> grew at a shocking rate in the past year.
>>
>> Nathan Webber, who started Dynamic Life and up until recently was
>> the CEO, said it started with a phone call from a friend. Webber,
>> who has served as a foster parent, said his friend asked him to
>> help a kid placed in state care who was destroying a hotel room.
>>
>> Webber explained it as an almost Biblical tale. He and his sons,
>> Isaiah and Josiah, showed up at the hotel in Lincoln City and told
>> the kid in foster care they loved him. While the kid kicked and
>> screamed and punched, they kept repeating the message: We love
>> you.
>>
>> “You just stand there and let him know you love him, no matter
>> what,” Webber said. “He kicks you in the shin, you tell him you
>> love him.”
>>
>> A couple of hours later, the boy, sweating and tired, finally
>> stopped being violent, Webber said.
>>
>> “From there, the state said, ‘Could you do that again? Could
>> you possibly do that again?’” Webber said. “And we said,
>> ‘Yeah, we think we can do that’ and out of that was created
>> Dynamic Life.”
>>
>> In October 2022, Oregon child welfare officials signed a contract
>> with Dynamic Life, noting they could be paid up to $2,916 per day,
>> for every child or teenager the state places in their care. Compare
>> that to the amount the state’s child welfare system pays a foster
>> parent to care for a teenager — which is $795 per month. If a
>> child is determined to have high needs, a foster parent is usually
>> paid slightly more, an additional $240 to $468 per month, still
>> significantly less than what Dynamic Life receives.
>>
>> In the last 12 months, the state of Oregon has paid the religious
>> nonprofit more than $7.75 million to provide support services to
>> about 40 kids at risk of temporary lodging and to those already in
>> temporary lodging, such as a hotel or short-term rental.
>>
>> Perhaps more troublesome than the large dollar figure is the lack
>> of oversight."
>>
>> https://www.opb.org/article/2023/11/20/oregon-foster-care-children-sent-to-unlicensed-short-term-rental-homes-millions-for-religious-nonprofit/
>>
>>  The story just keeps getting sadder from there.
>
> Sounds like your leaders out there really know how to efficaciously
> manage money.
>
They "manage" to put it into their own pockets.
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