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Oklahoma child-welfare task force issues multi‑system roadmap to speed reunifications and expand supports
Summary
The governor-ordered Oklahoma Child Welfare Task Force recommended a multi-pronged, five‑bucket strategy to shorten time to permanency, strengthen prevention services and build court and community supports; the report stresses coordinated services, technology, foster-parent supports and targeted Medicaid expansion for parents.
The Oklahoma Child Welfare Task Force delivered a broad set of recommendations aimed at reducing the time children spend in foster care and preventing unnecessary entries, Dr. Debra Shropshire, who presented the report to the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth, said at the commission's meeting.
The report, compiled after 17 engagement sessions and more than 1,300 survey responses, recommends five priority “buckets”: expanding and coordinating the service array to prevent entries, strengthening entry and reunification practices, improving court processes and technology, increasing stakeholder and foster‑parent supports, and building agency capacity. "We think it's a road map," Shropshire said of the final product.
Why it matters: The task force was convened by executive order and was explicitly charged with shortening time to permanency, reducing re‑entries to care and identifying supports for biological parents. The report ties proposed changes to…
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