Our Community Our Kids Transforms Families' Lives in North Texas

OCOK Brings Community-Based Care to Metroplex West.

What We Do and Why It Matters

Our Community Our Kids‘ (OCOK) organizational design leverages the strengths of community providers to best meet the needs of children, youth, and families in our catchment area. Through a contract with the State of Texas, OCOK is expanding Community-Based Care (CBC) into Metroplex West, which comprises Cooke, Denton, Erath, Hood, Johnson, Palo Pinto, Parker, Somervell, Tarrant, and Wise counties.

CBC is a new way of providing foster care services that gives local communities the flexibility and authority to improve the system. OCOK provides case management and family services that enable children to safely achieve permanency in their own home, with relatives, or through adoption.

Thousands of families in north Texas need our support.

We believe every child deserves even a temporary home during times when parents may not be able to care for them.

Parenting Resources

OCOK works closely with biological parents to help develop their parenting skills and follow a plan to reunification with their children.
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Foster Care

At the same time, OCOK partners with agencies in the region to find the best foster home possible. Fostering brings as much joy and love to the family as it does to the child. Find out what it takes to foster a child today!
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Adoption

OCOK’s Adoption team works diligently with Permanency Specialists to identify children in care that are available for adoption. Oftentimes, this is an older child that believes his or her destiny is to simply “age out” of the foster care system. Adoption Specialists help kids and teens understand the importance of having a permanent family and a place to call home. Discover how you can change a child’s life today!
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Youth Resources

Youth in care are not alone. There are resources available to assist with a myriad of things, from healthcare and college to legal issues and employment. Let us help you help yourself.
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Testimonials

“We had a young man age 16, and his young sister, age two, whose foster homes were miles apart. The large age gap presented a unique challenge to placing the kids together with one family. I worked with one of our partner agency’s placement specialist to find the perfect home for them. She knew exactly who to approach—a family that had just become licensed foster parents. Without hesitation, they said yes to fostering the siblings, which seemed like a miracle.”
Carolyn H.OCOK Intake Specialist
“During a match adoption event, we hesitated on the profile of a 16-year-old young lady. We saw the hope in her eyes and knew we could not let her age out of the foster care system.”
Chelsea & Mark R.Adoptive Family, Tarrant County
“If a family is working to get their child returned, I need to have their back. People don’t change overnight, but they will get better over time. It’s important to let parents know you are there for them and willing to work with them.”
Jessica T.OCOK Permanency Specialist and former child in care
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7700 AWG Way
Fort Worth, TX 76140
817.566.7192
FAX: 817.732.9332

Our Community Our Kids (OCOK), a division of ACH Child and Family Services, recognizes that privacy is important. Therefore, we are committed to protecting the privacy and security of any visitor to our website. OCOK does not collect personal identifiable information (PII) when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information. OCOK does not disclose, transfer, or sell your information unless we are required by law. To read our full notice of privacy practices, please click here.

Our Community Our Kids became a nationally accredited community-based care contractor in 2018 and continues to receive annual accreditation.