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Five Core Components
OCS Practice Model
The OCS Practice Model brings clarity and purpose to child protective services and establishes clear parameters for the safety of children and how families are treated within the system. The Office of Children's Services Practice Model document has been developed to serve as a guide and reference for helping staff, stakeholders, and those we serve better understand the role of child protective services in Alaska.
Is this job right for me?
Working within the Alaska Office of Children's Services is challenging but rewarding. Listen to OCS staff talk about their work in our "I AM OCS" video series:
Alaska Office of Children's Services Realistic Job Profile
"It's an awesome job. It's hard; there's no doubt about that. But if you can do this job, you can do any job!"
Become a Foster Parent
"You don't have to live in a big city to be a foster parent. You don't have to have a big house, a fancy car, or lots of money. What you need is a home. What you need is a heart that can open to a child that needs you."
Become a foster parent from Alaska Department of Health (Alaska DOH) on YouTube.
Learn How Foster Parents Can Help 'One Child' from from DFCS on Vimeo.
Learn How Foster Parents Can Help 'One Child'
"One caring foster parent can make the difference between a good life and a not so good life for a child."
Become a Foster Parent!
"In Alaska, more than 2,000 children are in native foster homes. More than 1,200 of those children are Alaskan native."
Become a Foster Parent! from Alaska DOH & DFCS on YouTube.
Foster Care PSA from Alaska DOH & DFCS on Vimeo.
Foster Care PSA
"If it weren't for Paula, Bill, and Jill, I wouldn't have graduated high school and I probably would have turned out to be one of those statistics."
ICWA in Alaska
Protecting Our Children and Our Future
"When we embrace the values and the spirit of ICWA, it's sending a clear message to the Alaska native people and American Indian people that we value their thoughts, their feelings, their spirituality, their cultures, their ceremonies, their language, their art, and all of those things matter."
Alaska Tribal Child Welfare Compact 2017
"We'll be able to pinpoint this moment in time, 15 years from now, 10 years from now, and say, 'This is when it changed. This is when we took control of our destiny and started to rewrite how our history is going to unfold.'"
Alaska Tribal Child Welfare Compact 2022
Protecting Our Children
" It's been five years since we executed the Alaska Tribal Child Welfare Compact and we're still on the cutting edge of law and policy."
AFN Compact 2022 from C+L Creative.
Alaska Safe Surrender:
Every Child Deserves a Safe Start
"A law called 'Safe Surrender' would let me give my baby up. If I couldn't care for it, I could go to a hospital, to the police, or to a fire station."