Focus on Foster Children: Washington, Oregon sign pact to ease placement with kin

Focus on Foster Children: Washington, Oregon sign pact to ease placement with kin

An interstate agreement signed Monday will have a lasting positive effect on local foster children, officials said.

The agreement, the first of its kind between Washington and Oregon, gives social workers the ability to cut through layers of bureaucratic statutes and expedite the process of placing a child from one state with a relative who lives in the other state. The process could take as little as one week.