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State PARP reports volunteer coverage gaps, offers recommendations to shorten foster-care timelines
Summary
The State Post Adjudication Review Boards (PARP) report highlighted volunteer-driven oversight, recent statewide gains (online recommendation database, conference) and recommended policy changes including renaming PARP, improving legal representation for children, faster initiation of needed services and reconsideration of Open Meetings Act requirements for local board reviews.
Keith Pirtle, program manager for Oklahoma's Post Adjudication Review Boards (PARP), briefed commissioners on PARP operations, volunteer reach and a set of recommendations intended to improve oversight and timeliness in the juvenile court child-welfare system.
Pirtle described PARP as a largely volunteer program that reviews deprived-juvenile cases and makes recommendations to presiding judges. The program reported roughly 279 volunteers and more…
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