FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 27, 2026
MEDIA CONTACT: Justice for Kids — Oregon 6500 S Macadam Ave., Suite 380, Portland, OR 97239 Phone: 754-888-KIDS (5437) Toll-Free: 844-4KIDLAW (454-3529)
Justice for Kids Opens Its Doors in Oregon — Because Every Child Deserves a Fighter in Their Corner
The Florida-Based Child Advocacy Powerhouse Brings Its Proven Civil Litigation Model to Portland, Delivering Unrelenting Legal Advocacy for Oregon’s Abused, Neglected, and Exploited Children
PORTLAND, Ore. — There is a moment — familiar to far too many Oregon families — when the realization sets in that the system failed their child. It might come in the form of a caseworker’s admission, a police report, a medical diagnosis, or simply the devastating testimony of a child who finally feels safe enough to tell the truth. In that moment, what a family needs is not paperwork, not platitudes, and not a referral to a government hotline. What they need is a law firm that will pick up the phone, listen carefully, and then get to work fighting for justice with everything it has.
That law firm is now in Oregon. Justice for Kids — a civil litigation firm founded on the singular mission of securing justice for children who have been abused, neglected, and exploited by the institutions and individuals charged with their care — has opened its Portland office at 6500 S Macadam Ave., Suite 380, Portland, OR 97239. The firm’s arrival in the Pacific Northwest marks the beginning of a new chapter, not just for the firm, but for every Oregon family that has been searching for a legal team with the skill, the experience, and the commitment to truly go to bat for their child.
Oregon’s child welfare challenges are well-documented and deeply serious. From understaffed child protective services offices to foster care placements that were approved without adequate background investigation, the state’s systems for protecting its youngest and most vulnerable residents have faced years of criticism, legislative scrutiny, and heartbreaking headlines. Justice for Kids is not coming to Oregon to observe those problems from a distance. The firm is here to hold the responsible parties accountable in a court of law — as a relentless child abuse injury law firm that puts children first in every case it takes.
⚠ Know an Oregon Child in Need? ⚠
If you know a child in Oregon who has been abused, neglected, sexually exploited, or harmed within a foster care, childcare, or state-supervised setting — do not wait another day. Justice for Kids offers free, confidential case consultations with no obligation and no upfront cost.
Phone: 754-888-KIDS (5437) | Toll-Free: 844-4KIDLAW (454-3529) 6500 S Macadam Ave., Suite 380, Portland, OR 97239 justiceforkids.com/where-we-protect-kids/oregon/
A Law Firm Built for the Hardest Cases
Most law firms handle a wide variety of legal matters. Justice for Kids does not. The firm was built specifically — and exclusively — to represent children who have been harmed by caregivers, institutions, government agencies, and the systems that were legally obligated to protect them. That singular focus is not a limitation. It is a strength. Every attorney at Justice for Kids has developed deep expertise in the procedural, evidentiary, and emotional complexities that define child abuse civil litigation. The firm’s entire infrastructure — its investigative relationships, its network of expert witnesses, its knowledge of state-specific statutes — exists in service of one goal: winning justice for injured children.
When a family walks through the door at Justice for Kids, they are not handed off to a paralegal and placed in a queue. They are met by attorneys who understand the gravity of what that family has endured and who approach every case with both urgency and care. The firm conducts thorough independent investigations, works with forensic experts and child trauma specialists, and builds cases designed to withstand the scrutiny of Oregon’s civil courts. Whether a case settles during negotiation or goes all the way to a jury verdict, Justice for Kids is prepared to pursue the outcome that genuinely serves the child’s best interests.
The firm also understands that the opposing parties in these cases — state agencies, licensed facilities, insurance carriers, and institutional defendants — are not passive. They have legal teams, they have resources, and they have a vested interest in minimizing their liability. Justice for Kids is built to match that opposition and exceed it.
Oregon’s Foster Care System and the Children It Has Left Behind
Foster care exists to serve one purpose: to provide a safe, stable, temporary home for children who cannot safely remain with their biological families. When foster care fulfills that purpose, it is a vital and life-changing resource. When it fails — when children are placed in homes where they face further abuse, when warning signs are ignored, when oversight is insufficient — it becomes yet another source of trauma for children who have already suffered too much.
Oregon’s foster care system has faced sustained criticism for exactly these kinds of failures. Investigations have documented cases of children placed in homes with foster parents who had prior complaints filed against them, children who reported abuse to caseworkers and were not removed, and placements that were approved despite inadequate home study processes. These are not statistical abstractions — they are the lived experiences of real children, and they form the foundation of civil claims that Justice for Kids is equipped and eager to pursue.
As an experienced Portland foster care child neglect law firm, Justice for Kids approaches these cases with a comprehensive investigative strategy. The firm examines the full history of a child’s placement: who approved it, what documentation existed, what complaints were made, and what actions were or were not taken in response. When negligence in the placement process — or negligence in ongoing oversight — contributed to a child’s harm, the firm pursues civil accountability against every party that shares in that responsibility.
These cases matter beyond the individual families they serve. Every successful civil lawsuit against a foster care system that failed a child creates pressure for reform, improved screening, better training, and more rigorous oversight. Justice for Kids is committed to being a catalyst for that reform in Oregon.
Sexual Abuse in Supervised Settings: Giving Survivors a Path to Justice
The sexual abuse of a child within a supervised or institutional care setting represents one of the most severe violations of trust that the legal system is called upon to address. When the perpetrator is a foster parent, a group home employee, a childcare worker, or any other individual who held a position of authority over a child through the state’s systems, the institution that placed that child bears a profound share of the responsibility.
Oregon law has made meaningful strides in recent years toward expanding access to civil justice for survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Extended filing windows mean that survivors who were victimized years or even decades ago may still have viable civil claims. Understanding those timelines — and acting within them — requires guidance from a knowledgeable Oregon sex abuse injury attorney who is current on Oregon’s evolving statutory landscape.
Justice for Kids brings that knowledge to every survivor consultation. The firm understands that coming forward is never easy. Shame, fear, distrust of institutions, and the psychological weight of trauma can create enormous barriers to seeking help. The attorneys at Justice for Kids are trained to work with survivors in a way that is patient, respectful, and completely non-judgmental. The firm’s goal is to give every survivor the information they need to make an empowered decision about their legal options — and then to pursue those options with maximum force if the survivor chooses to move forward.
Civil sexual abuse cases can target not only the individual perpetrator but also the organizations and agencies whose negligent hiring, inadequate background checks, poor supervision, or active concealment allowed the abuse to occur and continue. Justice for Kids investigates every layer of institutional responsibility and pursues accountability wherever the evidence leads.
Understanding the Depth of Neglect — and the Legal Remedies Available
Child neglect is, in many ways, the silent epidemic of the child welfare world. It lacks the visceral immediacy of physical violence, which can make it easier for institutions and oversight bodies to rationalize or overlook. But the consequences of chronic neglect — particularly neglect that occurs within a supervised care environment — are anything but silent. Children who are denied adequate food, medical attention, educational support, emotional nurturing, and physical safety suffer injuries that can alter the entire trajectory of their development and their lives.
When neglect occurs in a foster home, a group care facility, or any other state-supervised setting, it is not simply a personal failing of an individual caregiver. It is an institutional failure — a breakdown in the oversight, monitoring, and accountability systems that are supposed to prevent exactly this kind of harm. Civil law provides meaningful recourse in these situations, and Justice for Kids pursues that recourse on behalf of neglected children across Oregon with the full weight of its legal resources.
The firm works with pediatric medical experts, developmental psychologists, educational specialists, and trauma therapists to document the full scope of harm that a neglected child has suffered — and to project the long-term costs of care, therapy, and support that child will require. This comprehensive approach to damages ensures that civil recoveries genuinely reflect the impact of what a child has endured, rather than settling for a fraction of what justice actually requires.
Confronting ODHS: When the State Itself Is the Defendant
Filing a civil lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Human Services is one of the most complex undertakings in the state’s legal landscape. The ODHS is a government entity, which means that claims against it are governed by specific statutory frameworks — most notably the Oregon Tort Claims Act — that impose strict procedural requirements, notice deadlines, and limitations on damages. Missing a single deadline or failing to follow the correct procedural steps can result in a family losing their right to pursue a claim entirely.
This is precisely why families who believe ODHS failures harmed their child need an experienced ODHS negligence civil lawsuit attorney from the very first moment they consider legal action. Justice for Kids has navigated these procedural complexities many times over. The firm knows how to file proper and timely notices, how to obtain agency records through discovery, how to depose government employees, and how to construct civil claims that can withstand the sovereign immunity arguments that ODHS defense attorneys inevitably raise.
The types of ODHS failures that can give rise to civil liability are varied and often deeply troubling. A caseworker who received multiple abuse reports about a child in foster care and failed to investigate. A supervisor who approved the renewal of a foster license despite documented misconduct. An agency that placed a medically fragile child in a home without disclosing the child’s needs or verifying the placement’s capacity to meet them. A child removed from a safe relative’s home and placed in a facility where abuse was later documented. Each of these scenarios represents a potential civil claim — and Justice for Kids has the knowledge and the tenacity to pursue them.
Accountability matters not just for the individual family, but for the thousands of Oregon children currently in ODHS custody whose safety depends on the agency operating at the highest standard of care. Civil litigation is one of the most powerful forces available to push that standard where it needs to be.
What Happens When You Call Justice for Kids
The process begins with a conversation — a free, completely confidential consultation in which a Justice for Kids attorney listens to what happened, asks questions designed to help assess the strength of a potential civil claim, and provides an honest, straightforward assessment of the family’s legal options. There is no pressure, no obligation, and no cost. The firm believes that every family deserves accurate information about their rights, regardless of whether they ultimately choose to move forward with litigation.
If Justice for Kids takes a case, it does so on a contingency fee basis. That means the firm absorbs the cost of litigation — investigative expenses, expert witness fees, filing costs, and attorney time — and collects its fee only if and when it recovers compensation for the family. Oregon families who have already been failed by systems that were supposed to protect their children should not face financial barriers to accessing experienced legal representation. Justice for Kids eliminates those barriers entirely.
As an attorney for abused and injured Oregon foster children in state care, Justice for Kids is committed to standing beside Oregon’s most vulnerable children for as long as it takes to reach a just outcome. The firm is not deterred by complex defendants, lengthy litigation timelines, or the institutional resources that government and licensed facility defendants bring to bear. It is built for exactly these fights — and it is ready for them.
To begin a free confidential consultation or learn more about Justice for Kids’ Oregon practice, visit justiceforkids.com/where-we-protect-kids/oregon/.
Every Child Deserves a Champion. Be the One Who Makes the Call.
Justice for Kids is now serving Oregon families from its Portland office. If a child you know has been abused in foster care, neglected in a state-supervised setting, sexually exploited by an institutional caregiver, or harmed by an ODHS failure — the time to act is now. Civil claims have deadlines, and waiting can cost a family their right to pursue justice forever.
There is no fee unless Justice for Kids wins your case. The consultation is free. The conversation is confidential.
Call now — for the child who cannot make the call themselves.
Phone: 754-888-KIDS (5437) Toll-Free: 844-4KIDLAW (454-3529) 6500 S Macadam Ave., Suite 380, Portland, OR 97239 Visit Our Oregon Page: justiceforkids.com/where-we-protect-kids/oregon/
This press release is for informational purposes only. Justice for Kids is a civil litigation law firm. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes. This is not legal advice.
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