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Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth seeks staff additions and pay adjustments to reduce oversight backlog
Summary
The Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth told the committee that added staff over the past year reduced the child-death-review backlog and that it is requesting additional oversight specialists, a director for juvenile systems oversight and targeted pay adjustments to sustain timely reviews and investigations.
The Director, Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth, presented the agency’s FY26 budget priorities to the Appropriations and Budget committee and requested funding to boost oversight capacity and align staff pay with comparable agencies.
Why it matters: OCCY is charged with system oversight, child-death reviews, multidisciplinary medical reviews and post-adjudication foster-care reviews; timely reviews produce data used to recommend prevention actions and policy changes affecting child welfare and related systems.
What OCCY told the committee: The agency described its statutory history and core units — child death review board, multidisciplinary child abuse/neglect review…
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