1. Facilitate joint planning and service coordination among public and private agencies that provide services to children and youth and maintain as confidential information provided to the Commission regarding persons using such services;

2. Prepare and publish reports;

3. Review the programs, policies, and services for children and youth provided by public and private agencies for compliance with established state policies and progress towards goals identified in planning documents relating to children and youth services and to make reports regarding such compliance and progress;

4. Accept appropriations, gifts, loans, and grants from the state and federal government and from other sources, public or private;

5. Enter into agreements or contracts for the development of test models or demonstration programs and projects and for programs of practical research for effective services to children and youth; provided that the administration of contract for such model programs and projects shall, within five (5) years of their inception, be transferred to an appropriate agency or the program or project shall be discontinued;

6. Secure necessary statistical, technical, administrative, operational, and staff services by interagency agreement or contract;

7. Examine all records, plans, budgets, and budget documents pertaining to the children and youth service system;

8. Exercise all incidental powers as necessary and proper for the performance of the duties and responsibilities of the Commission;

9. Promulgate rules as necessary to carry out the duties and responsibilities assigned to the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth;

10. Recommend that a facility providing services to children and youth be closed or that its contract with the state be terminated; and

11. Request that cases involving children within its jurisdiction be transferred to the jurisdiction of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.