Oklahoma § 10-601.81 - Home visiting programs – Requirements – Objectives –

§ 10-601.81. Home visiting programs – Requirements – Objectives –

Annual report.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 10. Children

A. The departments that provide home-visiting services may

adopt and promulgate rules by which the home-visiting program shall

operate.

B. The departments shall provide a framework for service

delivery and accountability across all home-visiting programs to

promote a continuum of care that targets families at the greatest

risk for experiencing adverse childhood outcomes.

C. A home-visiting program shall provide face-to-face visits by

specially trained parent educators to provide home-based family

support services.

D. The departments shall ensure home-visiting programs work in

partnership to serve children, thereby maximizing the opportunities

for families to receive services that best fit their needs.

E. A home-visiting program shall achieve two or more of the

following:

1. Improve prenatal, maternal, infant or child health outcomes,

including, but not limited to, indicators such as preterm birth

rates, substance abuse and tobacco use;

2. Reduce entry into the child welfare system;

3. Improve positive parenting and relationship skills;

4. Improve parental self-sufficiency, including increased

employment and educational attainment;

5. Improve children's readiness to succeed in school; and

6. Improve children's social-emotional, cognitive and language

and physical development, including efforts at early identification

of delays.

F. The departments shall work with community partners,

researchers, model developers, program providers and interested

private entities to develop processes that provide for a greater

ability to collaborate, as well as share best practices and

information as necessary and appropriate.

G. When the departments authorize funds through payments,

contracts or grants that are used for home-visiting programs, they

shall include language regarding home visiting in the funding

agreement contract or grant that is consistent with the provisions

of the Family Support Accountability Act.

H. State and local agencies administering home-visiting

programs as defined in this act, providers of home-visiting services

and experts in home-visiting program evaluation shall collaborate

with the Early Childhood Advisory Council created in Section 640.1

of Title 10 of the Oklahoma Statutes to:

1. Jointly develop an outcomes measurement plan which includes

indicators related to the objectives established in subsection E of

this section in order to monitor outcomes for children and families

receiving home-visiting programs and determine the efficiency of

agency program implementation;

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 10. Children

2. Complete and submit the outcomes measurement plan for statefunded home-visiting programs by January 1, 2016, to the Governor,

the Legislature, the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth and

the Early Childhood Advisory Council and complete and submit an

updated plan every subsequent five (5) years; and

3. Develop a process for collecting and reporting outcomes

measures to maintain privacy and security.

I. Beginning December 1, 2017, and annually thereafter, the

departments shall allocate resources to collaborate with the Early

Childhood Advisory Council to submit an annual outcomes report to

the Governor and the Legislature.

J. The annual outcomes report shall include:

1. Achieved outcomes as agreed upon and described in the

previously submitted outcomes measurement plan pursuant to

subsection H of this section for all state-funded family support

programs;

2. Combined program data regarding:

a.

the cost per family served,

b.

the number of families served,

c.

demographic data on families served, and

d.

the number and type of programs that the departments

have funded; and

3. Recommendations for quality improvements and future program

investments.

Added by Laws 2015, c. 199, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2015.