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OKLAHOMA Metropolis (KFOR) – Oklahoma Human Services (OKDHS) has launched a new online portal for the general public, customs partners and law enforcement to report allegations of abuse, fail and exploitation of vulnerable adults to Developed Protective Services (APS).

The new portal, OKHotline.org, launched on July ane and "is office of the agency's strategy to provide one point of contact for access to OKDHS services and written report allegations of maltreatment," says OKDHS. In addition to the new portal, calls will keep to exist answered at the statewide corruption hotline at 1-800-522-3511.

"It'due south important for people to know about this improvement in our online reporting," said OKDHS Crumbling Services Director Jeromy Buchanan. "The new portal allows better access for our numerous community partners and the general public to help the states provide more help and hope to vulnerable adults who need protection from corruption, neglect and exploitation."

Co-ordinate to OKDHS, in Land Fiscal Year (SFY) 2019, nearly 19,000 allegations of vulnerable adult abuse, neglect and exploitation were received by Adult Protective Services (APS). Numerous community partners work with APS to provide vulnerable adults and their caretakers with access to services to help vulnerable adults who cannot protect themselves because of age or inability.

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