Glossary of Terms
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- Office of Children Youth and FamiliesOne program office within the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services that is responsible for funding and regulating public and private services for dependent and delinquent youth. http://www.dhs.pa.gov/citizens/childwelfareservices
- OCYFOne program office within the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services that is responsible for funding and regulating public and private services for dependent and delinquent youth. http://www.dhs.pa.gov/citizens/childwelfareservices
- Older Child Matching InitiativeOlder Child Matching Initiative, OCMI: SWAN-funded initiative that enables partnering agencies to hire full-time staff located throughout the state to provide no-cost child-focused recruitment and family finding services for youth within county custody who are over the age of 10 with a goal of adoption.
- OCMIOlder Child Matching Initiative, OCMI: SWAN-funded initiative that enables partnering agencies to hire full-time staff located throughout the state to provide no-cost child-focused recruitment and family finding services for youth within county custody who are over the age of 10 with a goal of adoption.
- Open AdoptionAn arrangement in which the adopted child maintains contact with or knowledge of his or her birth parents or other relatives.
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