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What do we expect our investment to achieve for this principle?
Economic and family stability and permanency for children and individuals with disabilities by funding:
- Prevention efforts to preserve families and avoid entry into child welfare/foster care systems.
- Court Appointed Special Advocate services for more than 3,900 children in child dependency proceedings.
- Adoption and guardianship support for more than 8,500 children each year.
Helping vulnerable Oregonians meet basic food and shelter needs by providing:
- Support for more than 426,000 low-income Oregonians, 187,000 of them children, to help meet nutritional needs through the federal food stamp program.
- Support for the Oregon Food Bank Statewide Network, which distributes approximately 721,000 emergency food boxes per year to an estimated 850,000 individuals, 38 percent of them children.
- Assistance, including payments for shelters, transitional housing, and temporary rental assistance, for approximately 52,000 individuals, including children, who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
- Development or rehabilitation of more than 1,900 units of affordable rental housing, of which approximately half is targeted to special needs populations, including individuals who are chronically mentally ill, developmentally disabled or elderly.
- Approximately 3,400 loans to first time homebuyers, more than 1,100 of which will go to individuals at or below 80 percent of area median income.
Access to health, mental health and addiction services for vulnerable and uninsured Oregonians and helping all Oregonians stay healthy by supporting:
- Basic health care for approximately 385,000 low-income individuals through the Oregon Health Plan, including more than 140,000 seniors, people with disabilities, and pregnant women, 175,000 children and 24,000 low-income adults.
- Improved access to health care for children and adolescents with enhanced investment in School-Based Health Centers.
- Subsidized private-sector group and individual health insurance coverage for more than 11,800 low-income individuals annually, 37 percent of them children, through the Family Health Insurance Assistance Program.
- Improved nutritional health status for more than 103,000 at-risk women, infants and children under the age of five each month.
- Community-based family planning services for up to 136,000 individuals annually.
- Community-based mental health treatment and crisis response services for more than 200,000 children, adolescents and adults.
- State-operated inpatient mental health treatment services for more than 1,575 adolescents, civilly committed adults and criminally committed adults.
- Community-based alcohol and drug treatment services for more than 65,000 children, adolescents and adults.
- Community-based gambling prevention and treatment services for more than 1,800 individuals directly served through treatment centers.
- Services that reduce high-risk behaviors, like youth alcohol, drug and tobacco use.
- Services that enable state and local health officials to respond to communicable diseases.
- Services that promote a healthy and safe environment by ensuring the safety of Oregon’s drinking water, reducing exposure to toxic and harmful substances, and clean up of clandestine (e.g., methamphetamine) drug labs.
Protecting the health and safety of seniors and people with physical and developmental disabilities by funding:
- In-home care support services for more than 20,000 seniors and people with physical and developmental disabilities.
- 24-hour community-based residential care and nursing facility care for more than 22,500 seniors and people with physical and developmental disabilities.
- Approximately 125 Adult Protective Services caseworkers to identify the abuse of seniors and people with physical disabilities and reduce its occurrence in community and facility-based care settings.
- Nineteen workers in the Office of Investigations and Training to oversee investigations of abuse and neglect for adults with developmental disabilities and mental illness and provide abuse training and technical assistance to service providers.
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