About
Our History
Our Community Our Kids (OCOK) has provided a continuum of services for children in the Texas foster care system of the Metroplex West since 2014. As a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization, OCOK is contracted with Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) as a Single Source Continuum Contractor (SSCC) to expand Community-Based Care (CBC) in the Region, which includes Cooke, Denton, Erath, Hood, Johnson, Palo Pinto, Parker, Somervell, Tarrant, and Wise counties.
OCOK is a lead agency overseeing a network of subcontractors and is legally authorized to operate as the lead agency for this contract.
Community-Based Care (CBC) is a new way of providing foster care services which gives local communities the flexibility and authority to improve the system.
Our History
Our Community Our Kids (OCOK), a division of ACH Child and Family Services, has provided a continuum of services for children in the Texas foster care system of Region 3b since 2014. As a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization, OCOK is contracted with Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) as a Single Source Continuum Contractor (SSCC) to expand Community-Based Care (CBC) in the Region, which includes Erath, Hood, Johnson, Palo Pinto, Parker, Somervell, and Tarrant counties.
OCOK is a lead agency overseeing a network of subcontractors and is legally authorized to operate as the lead agency for this contract.
Community-Based Care (CBC) is a new way of providing foster care services which gives local communities the flexibility and authority to improve the system.
Our Purpose
Our Community Our Kids believes that abused and neglected children that live in our community belong in our community. To accomplish this goal, OCOK:
- Maintains the safety of children while they are in our care
- Keeps children within 50 miles of their home communities
- Reduces the number of times children are moved between foster homes
- Keeps siblings together
- Maintains the safety of children while they are in our care
- Keeps children within 50 miles of their home communities
- Reduces the number of times children are moved between foster homes
- Keeps siblings together
Innovate. Equip. Unite
OCOK began case management services in Metroplex West, March 1, 2020.
OCOK is responsible for:
Finding foster homes or other living arrangements for children in conservatorship of the state of Texas.
Providing youth in care with services essential to guiding a child successfully into adulthood.
Providing case management and family services that enable children to safely achieve permanency in their own home, with relatives, or through adoption.
In the early days of the CBC program, OCOK worked with service providers throughout Region 3b to evaluate current service offerings and to expand capacity, as necessary. In its first five years, OCOK developed and continues to support a robust network of providers.
These providers deliver a full array of services to meet the needs of families involved in the Texas child welfare system, thus creating an integrated, full continuum of care in the Region.
Additionally, OCOK:
- Performs case management responsibilities for the provision of all substitute care services
- Establishes permanency goals for the family, face-to-face visits between children and family, court activities, and kinship services
- Manages Preparation for Adult Living (PAL) services
Metroplex West
In 2014, Our Community Our Kids (OCOK) became the Single Source Continuum Contractor for what is now known as the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services’ Texas Metroplex West region: Cooke, Denton, Erath, Hood, Johnson, Palo Pinto, Parker, Somervell, Tarrant, and Wise Counties. OCOK assumed full responsibility for the region’s foster care system, managing the full range of resources provided to children in foster care and in 2018 became the only nationally accredited community-based care contractor in Texas. OCOK provides case management and family services that enable children to safely achieve permanency in their own home, with relatives, or through adoption.