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Oklahoma DHS plans to hire search firm to help find new director
Published: Tue, May 22, 2012
The Oklahoma Department of Human Services will hire a professional executive personnel search firm to identify qualified candidates for the director's job. Read More
$6.8 billion Oklahoma budget deal reached
Updated: Mon, May 21, 2012
Oklahoma lawmakers and the governor agree on a $6.8 billion budget deal. Read More
Welfare drug-screening bill is signed into Oklahoma law
Updated: Wed, May 16, 2012
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signed a measure Wednesday that requires the Department of Human Services to screen welfare recipients for drug use. DHS reports this practice is already used. Read More
Former Thunder announcer charged with lewd acts in front of a child
Updated: Wed, May 16, 2012
James Alan Miller, 41, of Harrah, was charged Tuesday in Oklahoma County District Court. He was the Thunder's public address announcer until he was suspended May 10. Read More
Oklahoma lawmakers propose overhaul of Department of Human Services
Published: Mon, May 14, 2012
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — State lawmakers are proposing a major overhaul of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services that includes abolishing the agency's current governing board and replacing it with four separate advisory panels, each charged with overseeing a different agency division. House Speaker Kris Steele... Read More
Charlotte Lankard: Speaking out against child abuse
Updated: Sat, May 12, 2012
Combating child abuse is not just the task of the Department of Human Services. Too often we look the other way when we sense threatening situations because we don't want to believe people are capable of such evil. It is immoral for us do so. Read More
Lawsuit blames Oklahoma officials for 'Precious Doe' murder
Published: Mon, May 14, 2012
A murdered girl's father says she would still be alive if Oklahoma corrections officials had contacted DHS when she was born while her mother was in prison. The mother gave the girl, Erica Green, to an acquaintance but then got Erica back after being released. The mother's then-boyfriend later killed the girl in... Read More
Oklahoma threatened with loss of federal funding
Published: Sun, May 13, 2012
Federal officials are threatening Oklahoma with a loss of federal funding if the state continues to make public the child abuse histories of children who are killed or nearly killed by child abuse or neglect. Read More
Jury finds Del City father guilty in child neglect case
Updated: Fri, May 11, 2012
At the Oklahoma County Courthouse, Christopher Dunham, 26, was found guilty of child neglect and drug charges in a motor home fire that killed his three young children. Read More
Thunder announcer accused in child sex crimes posts bail
Updated: Fri, May 11, 2012
James Allan Miller, 41, of Harrah, was arrested Thursday on three complaints of lewd or indecent acts with a child under 16. He has not been charged in Oklahoma County. Miller also is under investigation in Pontotoc County, police say. Read More
Oklahoma County jury begins deliberations in deadly RV fire
Updated: Thu, May 10, 2012
Jury deliberations begin in child neglect trial of Del City father Christopher Dunham, whose three children died Jan. 4, 2011, in a recreational vehicle fire. Read More
Monitors in child-welfare settlement won't approve Oklahoma DHS plan as-is
Updated: Wed, May 9, 2012
The monitors overseeing the child-welfare improvement plan for the Oklahoma Department of Human Services will not give their approval to the latest version, according to a statement Wednesday morning.
The improvement plan -- referred as the Pinnacle Plan -- is the agreement made to settle a federal... Read More
DHS worker testifies in Del City child neglect case
Updated: Tue, May 8, 2012
Del City fire inspector, Department of Human Services worker testified at the trial of Christopher Lee Dunham, 26, about drug use of defendant and wife, whose young children died in motor home fire. Read More
Top candidates emerge for DHS director's post
Published: Sun, May 6, 2012
A former U.S. ambassador to South Africa and a retired Tennessee DHS deputy commissioner have emerged as the top two candidates to serve as the new director of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services. Read More
Oklahoma DHS officials tweak reform plan
Updated: Wed, May 2, 2012
Babies would no longer be housed in state shelters by the end of the year and actions would be taken to improve DHS customer service under a revised state child welfare reform plan submitted this week. Read More
Man found tethered inside Edmond home
Updated: Wed, May 2, 2012
A woman who found a dog wandering free in an Edmond neighborhood discovered a man with a cable padlocked around his ankle Wednesday evening, police said. Read More
Patience important as DHS works to ease foster care backlog
Published: Sun, Apr 29, 2012
CHILD welfare advocates have been begging for years for wholesale changes at the state Department of Human Services. Some of those changes are coming fast. Others will take time. Balancing patience with a righteous sense of urgency to get help for our state's most vulnerable children will be a continuing challenge.... Read More
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Oklahoman Editorialsview all headlines
- Patience important as DHS works to ease foster care backlog
- Terri White a good pick to lead Oklahoma DHS during interim
- Time is right for new director of Oklahoma DHS
- New approach for DHS requires change at top
- When child welfare system fails, that's going to make headlines
- No settlement can affect volume of child welfare cases
- If real improvement follows, lawsuit against DHS would have been worthwhile
- As news stories show, being a child in Oklahoma can be difficult
- With DHS, slow progress is better than no progress
- Underreporting of abuse statistics another sad commentary on DHS
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