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Adoption
- Information about OKDHS Swift Adoption, which aims to find an adoptive family for every waiting child in state custody.
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.
Foster Care
- Provides 24-hour-a-day substitute temporary care and supportive services in a home environment for children birth to 18 years of age in OKDHS custody.
Independent Living
- Focuses on transition of young people ages 16-21 from state custody to self-sufficiency and successful adult living.
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.