A. The State Department of Health shall prepare the comprehensive state plan for prevention of child abuse and neglect for the approval of the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth. The development and preparation of the plan shall include, but not be limited to, adequate opportunity for appropriate local private and public agencies and organizations and private citizens to participate in the development of the state plan at the local level.
B. 1. The Office of Child Abuse Prevention shall review and evaluate all proposals submitted for grants or contracts for child abuse prevention programs and services. Upon completion of such review and evaluation, the Office of Child Abuse Prevention shall make the final recommendations as to which proposals should be funded pursuant to the provisions of the Child Abuse Prevention Act and shall submit its findings to the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth. The Commission shall review the findings of the interagency child abuse prevention task force and the Office of Child Abuse Prevention for compliance of such approved proposals with the comprehensive state plan prepared pursuant to the provisions of the Child Abuse Prevention Act.
2. Upon ascertaining compliance with the plans, the Commission shall deliver the findings of the Office of Child Abuse Prevention to the State Commissioner of Health.
3. The Commissioner shall authorize the Office of Child Abuse Prevention to use the Child Abuse Prevention Fund to fund such grants or contracts for child abuse prevention programs and services which are approved by the Commissioner.
4. Once the grants or contracts have been awarded by the Commissioner, the Office of Child Abuse Prevention shall annually review the performance of the awardees and determine if funding should be continued.
Added by Laws 1984, c. 216, § 5, operative July 1, 1984. Amended by Laws 1985, c. 299, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1985; Laws 1986, c. 58, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1986; Laws 1987, c. 84, § 1, emerg. eff. May 13, 1987; Laws 1990, c. 51, § 130, emerg. eff. April 9, 1990; Laws 2001, c. 356, § 4, emerg. eff. June 4, 2001; Laws 2005, c. 348, § 18, eff. July 1, 2005; Laws 2007, c. 147, § 5, eff. July 1, 2007; Laws 2009, c. 234, § 150, emerg. eff. May 21, 2009; Laws 2010, c. 324, § 5, emerg. eff. June 5, 2010; Laws 2013, c. 229, § 48, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.
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