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Within a year of being approved, nearly 40% of Oklahoma’s foster families close their homes to children in need of care. Only 8% of families are still caring for foster kids, or willing to do so ...
Oklahoma's foster care program continues to make improvements under federal monitoring, the latest in the area of mental health services
The need for foster families to help our children in state custody is still there. Failure to meet recruitment goals has Oklahoma children left waiting.
The agency receives both federal and state funding and has additional sources of revenue. The agency received a state appropriation of $753 million and had a total budget of $5.1 billion for fiscal year 2023. [1] The Department of Human Services is the largest employer in Oklahoma state government.
In 2020, there were 407,493 children in foster care in the United States. [14] 45% were in non-relative foster homes, 34% were in relative foster homes, 6% in institutions, 4% in group homes, 4% on trial home visits (where the child returns home while under state supervision), 4% in pre-adoptive homes, 1% had run away, and 2% in supervised independent living. [14]
Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn made a statement in 2006 about the Texas foster care system. [56] In Fiscal 2003, 2004 and 2005, respectively 30, 38 and 48 foster children died in the state's care. The number of foster children in the state's care increased 24 percent to 32,474 in Fiscal 2005, while the number of deaths increased 60 ...