Duties of the Office of Planning and Coordination - Evaluation and review of services to children and youth - Annual report - State Plan for Services to Children and Youth - Contents and publication

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A. The Office of Planning and Coordination shall:

1. Make recommendations to the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth regarding the development and improvement of services provided to children and youth based upon community partnership input no later than May 1 of each year; and

2. Forward a report of its recommendations to each agency affected by the recommendations.

B. The Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth shall evaluate and review the development and quality of services to children and youth and shall:

1. Publish and distribute an annual report of its findings on or before July 1 of each year to the Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma, and to the chief administrative officer of each agency affected by the report. Such report shall include activities of the Commission, recommendations for the further development and improvement of services to children and youth, services for homeless children and youth including youth at risk of homelessness and runaways, and budget and program needs; and

2. Include in its annual report the State Plan for Services to Children and Youth for the next succeeding fiscal year. The State Plan for Services to Children and Youth shall:

  • a.identify and establish outcomes, goals and priorities for services for children and youth, including homeless children and youth, and the estimated costs of implementing such goals and priorities,
  • b.show previous and current expenditures for state and state-supported services to children and youth, including homeless children and youth, which relate to the outcomes identified in the State Plan,
  • c.include information concerning the availability and accessibility of various human services, health, mental health and education programs that serve children and their families at the community level, and, when applicable, establish a plan for developing programs in areas of the state where the need for such services exists,
  • d.include such other information or recommendations as may be necessary and appropriate for the improvement and coordinated development of the children, youth, and family service system, and
  • e.be distributed as provided by paragraph 1 of this section and shall be made available to the general public.

Added by Laws 1982, c. 312, § 9, operative July 1, 1982. Amended by Laws 1990, c. 288, § 12, eff. Sept. 1, 1990; Laws 1998, c. 416, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1998; Laws 1999, c. 1, § 1, emerg. eff. Feb. 24, 1999; Laws 2000, c. 302, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2000; Laws 2015, c. 90, § 1, eff. July 1, 2015; Laws 2016, c. 227, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.

NOTE: Laws 1998, c. 364, § 3 repealed by Laws 1999, c. 1, § 45, emerg. eff. Feb. 24, 1999.


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