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Programs and Services for Adults
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Programs and Services
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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.
- Food Stamps - Also known as the "nutrition safety net of the nation," these benefits help raise nutritional levels of low-income households.
- 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.
- 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.
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