Okla. Stat. tit. 10A, § 10A-2-7-502: Child adjudicated in need of supervision - Placement

- Rehabilitative facilities – Mental health treatment.

A. Whenever a child who has been adjudicated by the court as a

child in need of supervision has been committed to the Office of

Juvenile Affairs, the Office may place the child in the home of the

child, the home of a relative of the child, foster home, group home,

transitional living program, independent living program, community-

based setting, rehabilitative facility or child care facility under

the operation of or licensure of the state, or in a state school for

individuals with intellectual disabilities if eligible for admission

thereto. No child in need of supervision shall be placed in an

Office-operated institution, other than a rehabilitative facility.

B. The Office of Juvenile Affairs may establish and maintain

one or more rehabilitative facilities to be used exclusively for the

custody of children in need of supervision. Each such facility

shall be, primarily, a nonsecure facility having as its primary

purpose the rehabilitation of children adjudicated to be in need of

supervision. Such facility shall have a bed capacity for no more

than twenty children, and shall minimize the institutional

atmosphere and prepare the child for reintegration into the

community. Provided however, that such facility may be designed and

operated as a secure facility used exclusively for children in need

of supervision whom the court has specifically found to be so

unmanageable, ungovernable and antisocial that no other reasonable

alternative exists for treatment or restraint other than placement

in such a secure facility. Such facility shall not rely on locked

rooms, fences, or physical restraints.

C. A child in need of supervision who has been found by a court

to be a minor in need of treatment shall be placed as provided by

Section 2-2-804 of this title and the Inpatient Mental Health and

Substance Abuse Treatment of Minors Act.