2025 Legislative Priorities
Safety and Healing for Families and Communities.
Community safety depends on access to services that promote accountability, restoration, and healing. But too often, people and communities cannot get the care they need.
By preserving local programs and increasing access to services, we can keep more families together, protect addiction-related resources, and help people restore their lives after trauma.
The Problem
Gaps in local community safety and treatment programs persist.
While communities of color and rural communities have seen increased investments, disparities remain due to decades of underfunding.
The Solution
We must maintain resources and broaden access to programs that strengthen families and make communities safer.
- Keep families together — and keep kids out of the foster care system — through local supervision and services.
- Reduce racial and rural disparities in incarceration, crime victims’ healing, and community safety.
- Protect life-saving addiction services, including community-based treatment and harm reduction programs in Oregon’s 36 counties and 9 tribes.
Keep Families Together
Family sentencing alternative (FSAP)
FSAP has effectively reduced unnecessary incarceration and kept children out of the foster care system, helping caregivers be accountable for harm through local supervision, treatment, housing, employment, and parenting classes.
By allowing more eligible people to qualify for services, we can better serve Oregon’s diverse racial and cultural communities, keep more families together, and improve outcomes for kids across the state.
Reduce Public Safety Gaps and Disparities
Justice Reinvestment Equity Program
Eighteen organizations across Oregon receive program funding to meet three critical community safety goals: reduce incarceration and racial disparities in the criminal justice system, advance healing, and promote community safety in Oregon.
We must continue to invest in victim and survivor services, violence prevention, reentry services that support people returning home after their sentence, and diversion programs that safely redirect youth away from incarceration and toward accountability.
Protect Life-Saving Addiction Services
Measure 110 Behavioral Health Funding
Before Measure 110, Oregon ranked 50th in access to addiction treatment, despite having some of the nation’s highest addiction rates. Since then, we have invested over $430 million in the state’s harm reduction and recovery services.
Today, Behavioral Health Resource Networks (BHRNs) services are available in all 36 counties and 9 tribes across Oregon, with continuum of care services such as harm reduction, medical withdrawal management, long-term peer support, and housing.