The plan was enacted after a federal class-action lawsuit in 2012 revealed foster child abuse and overcrowded, understaffed emergency shelters.

District 23 District Attorney Adam Panter accused the Oklahoma Department of Human Services of violating Oklahoma law by investigating child neglect and abuse cases on their own without notifying ...

Okies Care has initiated a petition to introduce a penny sales tax in Oklahoma to raise the pay of child protective service ...

A federal court has declared that Oklahoma Human Services is no longer subject to the oversight of child welfare monitors.

In a major overhaul, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will lay off 10,000 workers and shut down entire ...

Haven, a 17-year-old from Oklahoma City, has been in the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services since he was 12 years old and is living with four other children in a shelter ...

Justin Brown served as Oklahoma’s Cabinet Secretary of Human Services and Director of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services from 2019 to 2023. In July 2023, Brown stepped away from state ...

One of Republicans' long-time goals, eliminating the U.S. Department of Education, is closer to becoming reality. Here's what ...