A Driven Purpose

There are children around us who have no voice. No one to advocate for them. They are in our foster care system or in broken homes and they go largely unnoticed and unheard. Oregon’s Department of Human Services [DHS] and its Child Protective Services department [CPS] are charged with protecting this incredibly vulnerable sector of children.

DHS and CPS: Sexual Abuse, Physical Abuse, and Child Neglect

Sometimes, DHS provides resources to struggling families in order to help them get back on their feet. Sometimes, DHS removes children from dangerous living conditions and places them in a certified foster home. But, more often than not, Oregon DHS and CPS are the problems.

Rather than protecting children, they continue to put children at risk. Rather than move abused children from their abusers, CPS ignores their cries for help. When this happens, there are few people to speak up for the affected kids.

Representation You Can Count On

Attorney Paul C. Galm has been suing DHS, CPS, and the State of Oregon for years on behalf of those children who experience neglect, physical abuse, and sexual abuse. Whether, for example, it is a child whom DHS has placed with a foster parent who sexually or physically abuses the child or DHS ignoring reports of physical or sexual abuse against a family member, Paul Galm has filed lawsuits against the Oregon Department of Human Services. 

Paul Galm is one of a handful of attorneys who have tirelessly worked together to protect these kids. Regardless of each case, the goal has always remained the same: to expose the problems within the DHS and foster care system and effect lasting change.