CPS
How long does it take to close a case?
What is 60 days
The name given to the services provided to older youth who are in foster care.
What is Independent Living Services?
The permanency goal most often assigned to children when they first enter foster care.
What is Reunification?
The Director of the Department in Oklahoma?
Who is Tricia Howell?
The DA in Muskogee
Who is Larry Edwards?
What does CPS stand for?
What is Child Protective Services?
The name given to out-of-home care by a relative or someone who has a close relationship with the parent or child.
What is Kinship Care?
The permanency goal that is approved by the court when reunification cannot be achieved and termination of parental rights is most likely to occur.
What is adoption?
The Largest Child Welfare system in the US?
What is Los Angeles?
The river that Muskogee lie in.
What is the Arkansas River
What is SOOVI?
What is Safe, Observable, out-of-control, vulnerable, imminent?
According to ASFA (Adoption and Safe Families Act), this is the number of months that a child can stay in foster care before moving toward termination of parental rights.
What is 15 out of the past 22 months.?
This happens every 30-60 day
What is Family Team Meeting?
The 8 Safety Threats?
What is...
Living arrangements seriously endanger a child's physical health.
PRFC(s) in the home lacks knowledge, skills, motivation, or abilities to perform parental duties and responsibilities.
PRFC(s) intend(ed) to hurt the child.
PRFC(s) does not have resources to meet basic needs.
Child with exceptional needs the PRFC(s) cannot or will not meet.
Child is extremely fearful of the home situation.
PRFC(s) is violent and unwilling or unable to control the violence.
PRFC cannot or will not control behavior.
PRFC(s) has extremely unrealistic expectations or extremely negative perception of the child(ren).
Muskogee is most known for?
What is Oklahoma's first port with access to the Gulf of Mexico.
The three domains of Protective Capacities?
What is Cognitive, Emotional and Behavioral?
This is the year the President passed ASFA (Adoption and Safe Families Act)
What is 1997
The program that focuses on identifying and using family strengths, utilizes family meetings or conferences, where a team is assembled.
What is Strength Based Program?
The federal legislation which legislated that all states needed to have definitions of Child Abuse.
What is the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974.
Local DHS office Phone Number and Address
What is 727 S 32nd St, Muskogee, OK and (918) 684-5300
These are 3 ways that a child can be removed from a parent's custody
What is a court order signed by a judge, a voluntary placement agreement signed by the parent, the police can take protective custody, a doctor can retain custody for medical purposes.
The President who passed ASFA (Adoption and Safe Families Act)
What is President Bill Clinton
Youth (age 16 years or older) whose best interests would not be served by adoption, guardianship or care with kin or for whom, despite the Department’s best efforts, these permanency plans are not possible.
What is APPLA (Alternative Planned Permanent Living Arrangement)?
This is the term given to a child, by the court, when removed from the parent's care and therefore is "without proper care or control"
What is a Dependent child
The number of Parks in Muskogee
What is 18 Parks?