Learn How to Provide Feedback about Behavioral Health Division Rules
Is a proposed Oregon Administrative Rule (OAR) change is likely to affect your community? If so, you may be able to attend a Rules Advisory Committee or community engagement meeting. To get community feedback, Oregon Health Authority (OHA) may hold a Rules Advisory Committee, a community engagement meeting or both.
At the Rules Advisory Committee (RAC), committee members review and suggest edits to:
- The proposed rule text,
- Statement of Need,
- Fiscal Impact and
- Racial Equity Impact Statement.
The division will use the suggestions to create the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. The division holds RAC meetings as required by Oregon's rulemaking laws and Oregon Department of Human Services/Oregon Health Authority RAC policy.
These meetings allow the division to engage with community members:
- Where they are, and
- With the time and attention the community needs.
These meetings can be:
- Listening sessions, town halls, office hours or other formats.
- A single meeting or a series over several months.
The division decides the meeting format. length and frequency based on the community's needs.
They are single-family homes that provide 24-hour care for to up to five adults. Care includes:
- Meals
- Help with personal care
- Monitoring health and behavior issues
- Medications
- Transportation
- Care coordination
For each resident, adult foster homes must:
- Provide the care they prefer and need.
- Support independence, choice, dignity, and decision making.
- Protect their rights and freedoms.
Some residents need little help. Others need regular monitoring and redirection.
Adult foster home providers can:
- Earn $2,000 to $5,000 per month for each resident's care based on needs.
- Run their own business from home.
- Enhance their skills and grow in their chosen field.
Adult foster home providers may also qualify for tax benefits by serving Medicaid residents. To do this, they must:
- Live in the adult foster home;
- Enroll as an Oregon Medicaid provider; and
- Complete a Provider Enrollment Agreement.
To qualify for an adult foster home license in Oregon, providers must:
- Be of good character;
- Pass a background check;
- Be at least 21 years of age;
- Have a safe, structurally sound home;
- Have the financial resources to operate the home for two months;
- Be literate in written and spoken English;
- Be physically and mentally able to provide care;
- Have at least one year of full-time experience or equivalent part-time experience providing direct care and services to adults with mental illness;
- Complete an adult foster home orientation; and
- Complete 12 hours of training each year.