

2012 DHS Home for the Holidays program
This Blog post was originally written Thursday, October 11th, 2012 Our beautiful state of Oklahoma is facing an orphan care crisis. On January 1, 2012, there were 8,308 (eight thousand three hundred and eight) children in state custody (foster homes, group homes and shelters). The number of children in state custody has grown as the year wears on and in June, the number was in excess of 9,000 children. Recently in our Tulsa shelter, there have been approximately 65 children