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Programs and Services for Families
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Programs and Services
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Families
- Adoption - Information about OKDHS Swift Adoption, which aims to find an adoptive family for every waiting child in state custody.
- 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 - Program that leads the investigation into reports of possible maltreatment of vulnerable adults.
- Child Care - Search for quality child care near you or learn about subsidized child care benefits.
- Child Protective Services - Services that identify, treat and prevent child abuse and neglect.
- 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.
- Developmental Disabilities Community Services - Services for people with developmental disabilities and their families that are funded through Medicaid Home and Community Based Waivers (HCBW) and state funds. These include an residential, support and vocational services -Services for people with developmental disabilities and their families that are funded through Medicaid Home and Community Based Waivers (HCBW) and state funds. These include an residential, support and vocational services
- Earned Income Credit - Information about eligibility for Earned Income Credit and child and dependent tax credits
- 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.
- SoonerStart - Oklahoma's early intervention program for infants and toddlers with disabilities and developmental delays.
- 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.
- Therapeutic Foster Care - Serves children aged 3-18 with special psychological, social, behavioral and emotional needs who thrive in a family setting, but whose require more intensive or therapeutic services than those found in traditional foster care.
- 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.
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