OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A retired Tennessee human services official has accepted the job of director of the embattled Oklahoma Department of Human Services.
DHS announced Monday that Edward Lake of Hendersonville, Tenn., has agreed to take the job that was offered to him last Wednesday.
Lake will start on Nov. 1 at an annual salary of $185,000.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Governor Mary Fallin has appointed two Edmond residents to the Oklahoma Commission for Human for Human Services board that oversees the state's Department of Human Services.
Fallin announced Friday the appointments of Pam Kanaly and Karen Waddell.
Kanaly is president and co-founder of an organization that works with families and to support single mothers. Waddell is president of a company that works with at-risk children.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The possibility of closing a facility in Pauls Valley that houses some of Oklahoma's most severely developmentally disabled residents is drawing impassioned pleas from some family members of the more than 120 people who live there.
Several family members spoke out Tuesday during a regular meeting of the Oklahoma Commission for Human Services.
The commission is considering whether to consolidate the Southern Oklahoma Resource Center in Pauls Valley and the Northern Oklahoma Resource Center in Enid.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The possibility of closing a facility in Pauls Valley that houses some of Oklahoma's most severely developmentally disabled residents will be discussed during a regular meeting of the panel that oversees the Department of Human Services.
The Commission for Human Services will meet Tuesday in Oklahoma City.
The commission is expected to receive comments from groups that represent residents of both the Southern Oklahoma Resource Center in Pauls Valley and the Northern Oklahoma Resource Center in Enid.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Department of Human Services has released its revisions to a plan to improve child welfare services.
The revisions to the so-called Pinnacle Plan released yesterday include placing all children younger than 2 in a family-like setting rather than a group shelter by December 31st.
The plan is part of a January settlement agreement with the New York-based children's advocacy group Children's Rights.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two members of the commission that oversees the Oklahoma Department of Human Services have resigned from their posts.
Gov. Mary Fallin said she accepted the resignations Wednesday of Commissioners Steven Dow and Anne Roberts, both of whom were appointed by Fallin's predecessor Gov. Brad Henry, a Democrat.
