Resource Home

Means all foster care families, including traditional, kinship, CFC, EFC, TFC, ITFC, and adoptive families.

Pre-Service

Means required instruction to prepare and educate the applicant for caregiving and provides an opportunity for self-assessment, prior to approval as a resource parent.

In-Service

Means yearly instruction the resource parent is required to complete to maintain approval as a resource home.

Traditional Foster Care

Provides 24-hour-a-day substitute temporary care and supportive services in a home environment for children in DHS custody, from birth to 18 years of age.

Supported or Resource Family Partner (RFP)

Foster care services are provided, per Oklahoma Administrative Code (OAC) 340:110-5, by a private, licensed child-placing agency that contracts with OKDHS to meet, per OAC 340:75-7, the child’s foster care needs through service coordination and delivery in conjunction with OKDHS.

Kinship

A type of foster care where a child is placed with a relative or a close family friend (also known as fictive kin) when the child’s biological parents are unable to care for them.

The Intensive Treatment Family Care (ITFC)

Program provides treatment for children aged 6-18 who have experienced multiple placements in various settings but can be successfully served in a family setting.

Therapeutic Foster Care(TFC)

Is designed to serve children ages 3 to 18 with special psychological, social, behavioral and emotional needs who can accept and respond to the close relationships within a family setting, but whose special needs require more intensive or therapeutic services than are found in traditional foster care.