Okdhs Child Welfare Assessment Recommendations - Oklahoma ...

OKDHS Child Welfare Assessment Recommendations
Performance
Areas
Overall
Child Protective
Services
Prevention
Services
Child and Abuse
Neglect in Care
Foster Care Task Force
Recommendations ==>
Child welfare history can be made
available to appropriate approved
organizations in approving foster
homes/foster families.
Number of
Available Foster
Homes
Frequency and
continuity with
which child
welfare case
workers visit
children
Number of
placements that
children
experience
Number of
children in
shelters and how
long the children
remain there
Increase support of quality foster parents
through timely reimbursement rates,
resource supports, quality training,
customer service, targeted recruitment,
and retention of quality homes.
Expand partnerships between
state/tribal/public agencies and
private sector resources for
increased capacity and efficiency
with proper court and agency
monitoring and enforcement in
foster care home recruitment,
training and home studies
Extend Foster Care
System Improvement
Task Force until
December 31, 2014.
Expand partnerships (column c) in
placement (not to include case
Ensure that any changes to the foster
management) and services to custody
care system be based on best interests
youth along a continuum of care, to
of children and youth. Prior to legislative
include out-of-home placement, such
or policy changes to the foster care
as emergency foster care, traditional
system an impact analysis from the
foster care, contracted foster care,
affected parties should be sought and
therapeutic foster care, and kinship
considered.
care or other services as might be
authorized by DHS.
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