Oregon has a mandatory child abuse and

neglect reporting statute so if a

professional has reasonable cause or

Reasonable Suspicion to believe that a

child has been abused or neglected

they’re mandated to make a report which

DHS will then investigate and so

dependency cases are usually around when

DHS receives a referral of child abuse

or neglect and they typically go out and

investigate these cases and then

depending on the circumstances they’ll

either ask app parent to voluntarily

agree to work with them and to work

services and agree to certain

stipulations or they might file a

petition in Circuit Court juvenile

department to get the court to make

certain court orders that require that

either the child or the children go into

foster care or that they be the parents

be court ordered to do or not do certain

things so that the children live in a

safe and appropriate house