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+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 1 | Must include all children in | The child welfare agency is  | 4  |
|   | foster care for whom the     | the single-State title       |    |
|   | State title IV-B/IV-E agency | IV-B/E agency. All children  |    |
|   | has responsibility for       | under their care and         |    |
|   | placement, care, or          | placement responsibility are |    |
|   | supervision (45 CFR          | included in the AFCARS       |    |
|   | 1355.40(a)(2)).              | report period.               |    |
|   |                              |                              |    |
|   | All children in foster care  | The State includes all       |    |
|   | under the responsibility of  | children under its           |    |
|   | the State agency             | responsibility for care and  |    |
|   | administering or supervising | placement regardless of      |    |
|   | the administration of the    | whether a foster payment is  |    |
|   | title IV-B Child and Family  | made.                        |    |
|   | Services State plan and the  |                              |    |
|   | title IV-E State plan; that  | If a child's only placement  |    |
|   | is, all children who are     | while under the agency's     |    |
|   | required to be provided the  | responsibility for care and  |    |
|   | assurances of section        | placement is a hospital or a |    |
|   | 422(b)(8) of the Social      | locked facility, the State   |    |
|   | Security Act (the Act)       | correctly does not include   |    |
|   | (Appendix A -- SECTION II).  | these children in the        |    |
|   |                              | reporting population.        |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 2 | All children supervised by   | The State has section 472    | 4  |
|   | or under the responsibility  | agreements with Tribes only. |    |
|   | of another public agency     |                              |    |
|   | with which the title IV-B/E  |                              |    |
|   | agency has an agreement      |                              |    |
|   | under title IV-E and on      |                              |    |
|   | whose behalf the State makes |                              |    |
|   | title IV-E foster care       |                              |    |
|   | maintenance payments         |                              |    |
|   | (Appendix A - SECTION II).   |                              |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 3 | Includes American Indian     | Yes, the State includes      | 4  |
|   | children covered under       | Tribal children that are     |    |
|   | section 422(b)(10) of the    | placed under its             |    |
|   | Act, on the same basis as    | responsibility for care and  |    |
|   | any other child (45 CFR      | placement.                   |    |
|   | 1355.40(a)(2)).              |                              |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 4 | For children in out-of-State | Oklahoma does not include in | 4  |
|   | placements, the State        | their extraction code        |    |
|   | placing the child submits    | children placed there from   |    |
|   | and continually updates the  | other States.                |    |
|   | data (45 CFR 1355.40(a)(2)). |                              |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 5 | Includes all children who    | The State reports only those | 4  |
|   | have been in foster care at  | children that have removal   |    |
|   | least 24 hours (Appendix A - | episodes longer than 24      |    |
|   | SECTION II).                 | hours.                       |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 6 | Does not include children    | The State does not include   | 4  |
|   | who are in their own homes   | children who are in their    |    |
|   | under the responsibility of  | own homes under the          |    |
|   | the State agency (Appendix   | responsibility of the State  |    |
|   | A - SECTION II).             | agency.                      |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 7 | Include all children who are | The State includes children  | 4  |
|   | in the placement, care, or   | that are on "trial home      |    |
|   | supervision responsibility   | visits."                     |    |
|   | of the title IV-B/E agency   |                              |    |
|   | that are on "trial home      |                              |    |
|   | visits" (Child Welfare       |                              |    |
|   | Policy Manual, Section 1.3,  |                              |    |
|   | AFCARS Reporting             |                              |    |
|   | Population).                 |                              |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 8 | Includes youth over the age  | The age of majority in       | 4  |
|   | of 18 if a payment is being  | Oklahoma is 18.              |    |
|   | made on behalf of the child  |                              |    |
|   | (Child Welfare Policy        | The State does claim title   |    |
|   | Manual, Section 1, AFCARS).  | IV-E funds for youth over 18 |    |
|   |                              | up to their 19^th^ birthday, |    |
|   |                              | or graduation from high      |    |
|   |                              | school, whichever comes      |    |
|   |                              | first.                       |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
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| 9 | Data are required to be      | The State is reporting all   | 4  |
|   | transmitted by the State on  | children in the adoption     |    |
|   | all adopted children who     | file that were in the        |    |
|   | were placed by the State     | Oklahoma foster care system. |    |
|   | title IV-B/IV-E agency, and  |                              |    |
|   | on all adopted children for  |                              |    |
|   | whom the State agency is     |                              |    |
|   | providing adoption           |                              |    |
|   | assistance (either ongoing   |                              |    |
|   | or for nonrecurring          |                              |    |
|   | expenses), care or services  |                              |    |
|   | directly or by contract or   |                              |    |
|   | agreement with other private |                              |    |
|   | or public agencies. (45 CFR  |                              |    |
|   | 1355.40(a)(3)).              |                              |    |
|   |                              |                              |    |
|   | Report on all children       |                              |    |
|   | adopted in the State during  |                              |    |
|   | the reporting period and in  |                              |    |
|   | whose adoption the State     |                              |    |
|   | title IV-B/IV-E agency has   |                              |    |
|   | had any involvement. All     |                              |    |
|   | adoptions after 10/1/94 that |                              |    |
|   | meet the criteria below must |                              |    |
|   | be reported.                 |                              |    |
|   |                              |                              |    |
|   | -   Children who had been in |                              |    |
|   |     foster care under the    |                              |    |
|   |     responsibility and care  |                              |    |
|   |     of the State child       |                              |    |
|   |     welfare agency and who   |                              |    |
|   |     were subsequently        |                              |    |
|   |     adopted whether special  |                              |    |
|   |     needs or not and whether |                              |    |
|   |     subsidies are provided   |                              |    |
|   |     or not (Appendix B --    |                              |    |
|   |     Section II, paragraph    |                              |    |
|   |     (a)).                    |                              |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 1 | Report on all children       | The State includes children  | 4  |
| 0 | adopted in the State during  | adopted through a private    |    |
|   | the reporting period and in  | agency, and for whom the     |    |
|   | whose adoption the State     | State agency has an adoption |    |
|   | title IV-B/IV-E agency has   | agreement with the adoptive  |    |
|   | had any involvement. All     | family.                      |    |
|   | adoptions after 10/1/94 that |                              |    |
|   | meet the criteria below must |                              |    |
|   | be reported.                 |                              |    |
|   |                              |                              |    |
|   | -   All special needs        |                              |    |
|   |     children, whether or not |                              |    |
|   |     they were in the public  |                              |    |
|   |     foster care system prior |                              |    |
|   |     to their adoption and    |                              |    |
|   |     for whom non-recurring   |                              |    |
|   |     expenses were            |                              |    |
|   |     reimbursed.              |                              |    |
|   |                              |                              |    |
|   | -   Children adopted for     |                              |    |
|   |     whom an adoption         |                              |    |
|   |     assistance payment or    |                              |    |
|   |     service is being         |                              |    |
|   |     provided based on        |                              |    |
|   |     arrangements with the    |                              |    |
|   |     State agency. (Appendix  |                              |    |
|   |     B -- Section II,         |                              |    |
|   |     paragraphs (b) and (c)). |                              |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 1 | For children adopted         | Oklahoma reports children    | 4  |
| 1 | out-of-State, the placing    | placed out-of-State in the   |    |
|   | State reports the adoption   | adoption file and does not   |    |
|   | data (45 CFR 1355.40(a)(3)). | include children placed in   |    |
|   |                              | Oklahoma from other States   |    |
|   |                              | in the adoption file.        |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 1 | Voluntarily reports on all   | The state does not include   |    |
| 2 | other adoptions. (Appendix B | other adoptions.             |    |
|   | -- Section II)               |                              |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
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+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 1 | The data must be extracted   | The State modified foster    | 4  |
| 3 | from the data system as of   | care element #5 so that      |    |
|   | the last day of the          | future dates will not be     |    |
|   | reporting period             | extracted.                   |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 1 | The data must be submitted   |                              | 4  |
| 4 | in electronic form as        |                              |    |
|   | described in Appendix C.     |                              |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 1 | The data must be in record   |                              | 4  |
| 5 | layouts as delineated in     |                              |    |
|   | Appendix D.                  |                              |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
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+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 1 | For foster care information, |                              | 4  |
| 6 | the child-specific data to   |                              |    |
|   | be transmitted must reflect  |                              |    |
|   | the data in the information  |                              |    |
|   | system when the data are     |                              |    |
|   | extracted.                   |                              |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
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+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 1 | Adoption data are to be      |                              | 4  |
| 7 | reported during the          |                              |    |
|   | reporting period in which    |                              |    |
|   | the adoption is legalized    |                              |    |
|   | or, at the State's option,   |                              |    |
|   | in the following reporting   |                              |    |
|   | period if the adoption is    |                              |    |
|   | legalized within the last 60 |                              |    |
|   | days of the reporting        |                              |    |
|   | period.                      |                              |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
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+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 1 | State uses sequential        | The State encrypts the       | 4  |
| 8 | numbering of the case record | record number.               |    |
|   | number or encrypts the       |                              |    |
|   | record number.               |                              |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
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+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 1 | Data file must be in ASCII   |                              | 4  |
| 9 | format.                      |                              |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 2 | Elements must be comprised   |                              | 4  |
| 0 | of integer (numeric)         |                              |    |
|   | value(s).                    |                              |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 2 | All records must be a fixed  |                              | 4  |
| 1 | length.                      |                              |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 2 | Inform the Department, in    |                              |    |
| 2 | writing, of the method of    |                              |    |
|   | transfer intended to be used |                              |    |
|   | by the State.                |                              |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
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| 2 | Report the status of all     |                              | 4  |
| 3 | children in foster care as   |                              |    |
|   | of the last day of the       |                              |    |
|   | reporting period (Section    |                              |    |
|   | A.1.b(5)).                   |                              |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 2 | Provide data for all         |                              | 4  |
| 4 | children who were discharged |                              |    |
|   | from foster care at any time |                              |    |
|   | during the reporting period, |                              |    |
|   | or in the previous reporting |                              |    |
|   | period, if not previously    |                              |    |
|   | reported (Section A.1.b(5)). |                              |    |
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| 2 | State extracts all records   |                              | 4  |
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| 6 |  file name for transmission. |                              |    |
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| 2 | State transferred historical | The State conducted an       | 3  |
| 7 | information on open cases.   | automated conversion on      |    |
|   | Specifically, it included    | information that could be    |    |
|   | information on: date of      | carried over from the old    |    |
|   | first removal, total number  | system. All child protection |    |
|   | of removals, and whether the | service cases, open or       |    |
|   | child's mother was married   | closed, were converted.      |    |
|   | at the time of the child's   |                              |    |
|   | birth. If the case was open  | Placement information had to |    |
|   | at the time of conversion,   | come over into a text field  |    |
|   | information on the number of | and workers were given       |    |
|   | placement settings was       | instructions on what to do   |    |
|   | included.                    | for manual clean-up.         |    |
|   |                              | Roll-out was over three      |    |
|   | #                            | months. The staff were       |    |
|   |                              | provided a guide on what had |    |
|   |                              | to be updated, for instances |    |
|   |                              | removal episodes.            |    |
|   |                              |                              |    |
|   |                              | [Case file review            |    |
|   |                              | findings]{.underline}        |    |
|   |                              |                              |    |
|   |                              | Foster care element #18,     |    |
|   |                              | date of first removal: In    |    |
|   |                              | the cases reviewed, there    |    |
|   |                              | were several records in      |    |
|   |                              | which the first removal      |    |
|   |                              | episode was earlier than     |    |
|   |                              | what was reported in AFCARS. |    |
|   |                              | In one error case, elements  |    |
|   |                              | #18 and #21 had different    |    |
|   |                              | dates of removal but the     |    |
|   |                              | AFCARS file indicated only   |    |
|   |                              | one removal in element #19   |    |
|   |                              | and no date of discharge for |    |
|   |                              | element #20.                 |    |
|   |                              |                              |    |
|   |                              | Foster care clement #19,     |    |
|   |                              | total number of removals     |    |
|   |                              | from Home: In eleven of the  |    |
|   |                              | error cases, the reviewers   |    |
|   |                              | found more removal episodes  |    |
|   |                              | than what were reported to   |    |
|   |                              | AFCARS. In one error case,   |    |
|   |                              | elements #18 and #21 had     |    |
|   |                              | different dates of removal,  |    |
|   |                              | but the AFCARS file          |    |
|   |                              | indicated only one removal   |    |
|   |                              | in element #19 and no date   |    |
|   |                              | of discharge for element     |    |
|   |                              | #20.                         |    |
|   |                              |                              |    |
|   |                              | Foster care element #20,     |    |
|   |                              | date child was discharged    |    |
|   |                              | from last foster care        |    |
|   |                              | episode (if applicable): In  |    |
|   |                              | eleven of the error cases, a |    |
|   |                              | date should have been        |    |
|   |                              | reported because there were  |    |
|   |                              | two or more removals. In two |    |
|   |                              | error cases, the reviewer    |    |
|   |                              | found a later discharge date |    |
|   |                              | than the one reported to     |    |
|   |                              | AFCARS. In one error case,   |    |
|   |                              | elements #18 and #21 had     |    |
|   |                              | different dates of removal,  |    |
|   |                              | but the AFCARS file          |    |
|   |                              | indicated only one removal   |    |
|   |                              | in element #19, and no date  |    |
|   |                              | of discharge for element     |    |
|   |                              | #20.                         |    |
|   |                              |                              |    |
|   |                              | Foster care element #21,     |    |
|   |                              | date of latest removal: In   |    |
|   |                              | one error case, the reviewer |    |
|   |                              | found an earlier date than   |    |
|   |                              | the one reported to AFCARS.  |    |
|   |                              | In four error cases, the     |    |
|   |                              | reviewer found later dates   |    |
|   |                              | than the one reported to     |    |
|   |                              | AFCARS. In three error       |    |
|   |                              | cases, the reviewers found   |    |
|   |                              | later dates than what was    |    |
|   |                              | reported to AFCARS due to    |    |
|   |                              | earlier removal episodes     |    |
|   |                              | that were not counted. In    |    |
|   |                              | one error case, the date of  |    |
|   |                              | removal was actually later   |    |
|   |                              | than what was reported. The  |    |
|   |                              | date reported was when the   |    |
|   |                              | State had "protective        |    |
|   |                              | supervision" and the child   |    |
|   |                              | had not been placed into     |    |
|   |                              | foster care. In one error    |    |
|   |                              | case, elements #18 and #21   |    |
|   |                              | had different dates of       |    |
|   |                              | removal, but the AFCARS file |    |
|   |                              | indicated only one removal   |    |
|   |                              | in element #19 and no date   |    |
|   |                              | of discharge for element     |    |
|   |                              | #20. In the Tribal error     |    |
|   |                              | case, an earlier date was    |    |
|   |                              | found.                       |    |
|   |                              |                              |    |
|   |                              | The State indicated they     |    |
|   |                              | will look at having a prompt |    |
|   |                              | for the workers to check the |    |
|   |                              | paper file for pre-KIDs      |    |
|   |                              | information to ensure that   |    |
|   |                              | there are no other removals  |    |
|   |                              | that did not get entered     |    |
|   |                              | into KIDS.                   |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+
| 2 | The information system has   |                              | 4  |
| 8 | the capability of recording  |                              |    |
|   | historical information. This |                              |    |
|   | should apply to both open    |                              |    |
|   | cases in which historical    |                              |    |
|   | information must be entered, |                              |    |
|   | and for closed cases that    |                              |    |
|   | re-open after conversion and |                              |    |
|   | must be entered into the     |                              |    |
|   | system.                      |                              |    |
+---+------------------------------+------------------------------+----+