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The Oklahoma Department of Human Services is an agency of the government of Oklahoma.Under the supervision of the Oklahoma Secretary of Health and Human Services, Oklahoma Human Services is responsible for providing help to individuals and families in need through public assistance programs and managing services for seniors and people with disabilities.
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Ken Lackey: 1995 1997 Frank Keating: Jerry Regier: 1997 2002 Howard Hendrick: 2002 2003 Secretary of Human Services: Howard Hendrick: 2003 2011 Brad Henry: Secretary of Health and Human Services: Terry Cline: 2011 2017 Mary Fallin: Steven Buck: 2017 2019 Secretary of Human Services and Early Childhood ...
The Oklahoma Secretary of Health and Human Services is a member of the Oklahoma Governor's Cabinet. The Secretary is appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Oklahoma Senate, to serve at the pleasure of the Governor. The Secretary serves as the chief advisor to the Governor on public health and public assistance.
Deborah Shropshire is an American civil servant who served as the Oklahoma Secretary of Human Services in the cabinet of Governor Kevin Stitt from 2023 to 2024. From June 2024 to September 2024, she served under the title "Chief Adviser," but de facto continued to serve as the Oklahoma Secretary of Human Services.
Planning and Coordinating Council for Services to Children and Youth; Office of Juvenile Systems Oversight; Group Homes/Developmentally Disabled or Physically Handicapped Persons; Interdisciplinary Council on the Prevention of Juvenile Sex Offenses; Oklahoma Department of Human Services. Commission for Human Services (governing body of department)
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Ken Lackey: 1995 1997 Frank Keating: Jerry Regier: 1997 2002 Howard Hendrick: 2002 2003 Secretary of Health: Tom Adelson: 2003 2004 Brad Henry: Terry Cline: 2004 2006 Michael Crutcher: 2006 2009 Terri L. White: 2009 2011 Secretary of Health and Human Services: Terry Cline: 2011 2017 Mary Fallin: Steven ...
Howard Hendrick (born December 22, 1954) is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma.Hendrick was serving as the Oklahoma Secretary of Human Services, having been appointed by Democratic Governor of Oklahoma Brad Henry in 2003.
The Department was established through the Mental Health Law of 1953, although publicly supported services to Oklahomans with mental illness date back to before statehood: the first facility in Oklahoma for the treatment of individuals with mental illness was established by the Cherokee Nation, called the Cherokee Home for the Insane, Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, it was built outside the city of ...