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Adults

Adoption Assistance - Provides adoptive families with financial assistance for needed social services and medical support to care for children considered difficult to place.
Adult Protective Services (APS) - Information about the program that investigates reports of abuse, neglect or exploitation of vulnerable adults, including older persons and persons with developmental disabilities.
Child Support Services - Services designed to help children get the support they need, including locating the non-custodial parents' addresses and employers, establishing legal paternity, establishing child and medical support orders, enforcing support for married, separated or divorced parents and modifying support orders.
Confidential Intermediary Search Program - Allows Oklahomans who were separated from their birth family members through adoption and termination of parental rights proceedings in Oklahoma, to have a confidential search for members of their birth family.
Earned Income Credit - Information about eligibility for Earned Income Credit and child and dependent tax credits
Evidence-Based Physical Activity and Education Programs - Self-management programs that include both exercise and education based series. These programs include the Arthritis Foundation Self-Help (.pdf, 2 pp, 8 MB), Exercise (.pdf, 2 pp, 7.5 MB)and Aquatic (.pdf, 2 pp, 7 MB) programs, the EnhanceFitness Program (.pdf, 2 pp, 1.58 MB) and the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (.pdf, 2 pp, 1.94 MB). Learn more (link opens in a new window)about all the programs.
Mutual Consent Registry - Allows individuals and their birth family relatives to indicate their willingness to have their identity and whereabouts disclosed to one another.
Permanency Planning - Services provided to children and their families who have become involved in the juvenile court system due to child abuse and neglect.
Post-Adoption Services - Helps secure and support a safe and permanent adoptive family for children with special needs.
Refugee Assistance - Cash and medical assistance programs are available to eligible refugees for up to eight months after they arrive in the United States.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance - Also known as the "nutrition safety net of the nation," these benefits help raise nutritional levels of low-income households.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) - provides temporary cash assistance in meeting basic needs, training leading to employment, employment services and child care assistance for qualified families
Tribal Child Support - Chickasaw Nation Child Support Enforcement (CN CSE) provides child support services to Native American children.
Utility Assistance - Get information about cash assistance to help low-income households to pay winter heating and summer cooling bill, and to provide help for families who have received utility cut-off notices.