Okla. Stat. tit. 10A, § 10A-2-7-309: Department planning process for services to children

and youth.

A. The Office of Juvenile Affairs shall establish a planning

process that provides for collaborative ongoing planning for the

development of divisional and agency goals and priorities for

services to children and youth. Said planning process shall be

developed with the assistance of the Policy Analysis Division or

equivalent division within the Office of Juvenile Affairs and the

department and division directors, other state agencies and agencies

with whom the departments contract to provide services to children

and youth, including designated Youth Services Agencies, and shall

provide for identification and assessment of needs, establishment of

goals and priorities, and program implementation and monitoring, in

a manner that actively involves all divisions and units within

divisions.

1. The Office of Juvenile Affairs shall develop a three- to

five-year plan for children and youth services provided by the

agency. The plan should be regularly reviewed and modified as

necessary.

2. The Executive Director shall hold each department and

division director accountable for the performance of the department

or division in engaging collaboratively in the agency and in

interagency planning with other state agencies and agencies with

whom the Office of Juvenile Affairs contracts to provide services to

children and youth, including Youth Services Agencies, for programs

and services for children and youth.

3. The director of each division and administrator of each

office shall actively participate and require the collaborative

participation of department and division workers in interagency

planning and coordination for children and youth services.

4. The director of each division and administrator for each

office shall hold the administrator of each unit within the

department or division responsible for the collaborative development

and implementation of agency and division goals and priorities

related to children and youth.

B. The unit, division, office and agency budget recommendations

of the Office of Juvenile Affairs for services to children and youth

shall be based upon documented needs, and the development of budget

recommendations and priorities shall be closely integrated with

agency and interagency program planning and management.

C. As a part of the program planning and monitoring processes

of the Office of Juvenile Affairs, the Office shall examine its

programs and services to children and youth to ensure that the

practices within them do not operate to the detriment of minority

children and youth.