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Education Links
Information for COVID-19
- OSDH COVID-19
- How to prepare for the coronovirus
- Helping Children Cope with COVID-19
- 10 tips for your children
- How to slow the spread of the coronavirus
- Social Distancing
- City of OKC COVID-19 Assistance
- City of Tulsa COVID-19 Assistance
- COVID-19 Childcare Providers Guidance
- At-Home Brain Breaks
Activities and Information
Use the links below to find wonderful in-home activities to do while at home.
- Coronavirus Lesson Plans
- Read for Adventure
- Zoo @ Two
- Virtual Learning with the OKC Zoo and Botanical Garden
- OKC Zoo and Botanical Garden - Facebook Page
- Metro Toy, Book & Game Pickup
- Project Princess - Live Storytime w/characters
- Laskeshore - Free Resources
- Learning & Reading Extension - Lakeshore
- Meal Info - Putnam City Schools
- Meal Info - OKCPS
- Meal Info Provided by OKCPS
- Meal Info Provided by Mid-Del
- OKDHS Utility Assistance
- The Market - Local Grocery Market
- COVID-19 Home Educational Resources
- Emergency Infant Services - Tulsa
- Arms Around Broken Arrow - Food Resource
- Meals for Families - OKC
- Scholastic Learning From Home
- Staying Healthy with Sesame Street
- Caring for Each Other - Sesame Street
- Child Abuse Prevention
- 25 Ways to Get Moving at Home
- Picture Book Scavenger Hunt
- Fighting The Big Virus
- At-Home Early Math Learning Kit
- Activities To Do With Dad
- The Census Must Count
- K is for Kindness
National Child Traumatic Stress Network
The links below are resources to help children, families, educators, and communities nagivate with what they are seeing and hearing, acknowledge feelings and finding ways to cope together.
- Talking to Children: When Scary Things Happen
- Talking to Children: When Scary Things Happen (Spanish)
- Helping School-Age Children with Traumatic Grief
- Helping School-Age Children with Traumatic Grief (Spanish)
- Helping Young Children with Traumatic Grief
- Helping Young Children with Traumatic Grief (Spanish)
Becoming A Parent
Are you an expecting parent? The information provided in this section will help navigate you through this wonderful experience.
Resource Links
Birth Control
- Variety Care
- Oklahoma City-County Health Department
- Planned Parenthood
- State of Oklahoma Health Departments
Breastfeeding Support
Car Seats
Child Care
Counseling Services
Dental Services
Development Resources
Diapers and Formula
Domestic Violence
Education and Employement
- OCCC GED
- OCCC ESL
- OCCC Citizenship
- TANF
- Emerson Alternative High School
- Urban League of Greater Oklahoma City
- Suited for Success
- SMART (Single Mothers Academic Resource Team)
Emergency Shelters
- Sisu Youth Shelter: ages 15-24
- Salvation Army Center of Hope
- Rose Home Shelter
- Catholic Charities Holy Family Home ( shelter and case management services for women and children)
- Grace Rescue Mission: Men ONLY
- West Town Homeless Resource Campus
- City Care OKC
Financial Assistance
- Salvation Army (Emergency financial assistance for utilities, dependent on availability of funds)
- LIHEAP (Utility assistance program)
Food
- Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma
- Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma (Tulsa Area)
- Food Banks for Rural Oklahoma
- WIC
- Salvation Army
- SNAP (Oklahoma Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program)
- Skyline Urban Ministries
- Bethel Foundation
- God's Food Bank (Guthrie)
- Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma (McAlester Area)
- Lawton Food Bank
- Jenks Community Food Bank
- Mid-Del Food Pantry
- Project 66
- The Pet Food Pantry of Oklahoma
- PetsWell Pantry
- Tri City Hope Center (Newcastle, Blanchard, Bridge Creek, Tuttle & Surrounding Areas)
- OKC Faith - Free Food Outreach
Furniture
Healthcare
- Free and Charitable Clinics in Oklahoma
- Community Health Centers of Oklahoma Locations
- Willow Pregnancy Support
- Quit Now Hotline (Tobacco Cessation)
- Crossing Community Clinic
- Skyline Urbab Ministries (Vision)
- Hearts for Hearing
- Cross and Crown Medical Clinic
- Good Shepherd Clinic (OKC)
- Hope Center Clinic (Edmond)
- Mary Mahoney Mermorial Health Center
- OKC Indian Clinic
- Variety Care
- Sooner Plan
- Hope Pregnancy
Housing
- Oklahoma Housing Financy Agency
- Oklahoma City Housing Authority
- Neighborhood Services Organization (Transitional Housing)
Legal Assistance
- Legal Aid Service of Oklahoma
- OKC Legal Advice Clinic (3rd Saturday of each month from 9am-12pm)
- Catholic Charities Immigration Services
- Hispanic American Mission
Literacy and School Readiness
- Reach Out and Read
- Reach Out and Read In-State Programs
- Oklahoma Literacy Resource Office
- Too Small To Fail
- Talking Is Teaching
- Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
- Mind In The Making
- Raising A Reader
- Barbara Bush Foundation
- Read Aloud
- OETA-PBS Kids
- OETA- PBS Parents
- OETA-PBS Teacherline
- Reading Rainbow
- United Through Reading- For Military Families
- Early Birds- Smart Start Central Oklahoma
- Center For Early Childhood Professional Development
- Understood For Learning and Attention Issues
- CAP Tulsa
Mental Health
Other Resources
- Oklahoma Commission on Children &Youth
- Military OneSource
- Online Community Resource Binder
- OKC Heartline 2-1-1
- Tulsa 2-1-1 Helpline
TRANSPORTATION
Throughout Oklahoma's 77 counties, people are looking for rides to medical appointments, work, school, and other places within their communities or across the state.
News
News you can use.
- Good Toys for Young Children by Age and Stage
- Holiday Fire Safety
- 7 Cheap Ways to Weatherize Your Home this Winter
- How to Keep Your child Warm and Safe in the Car Seat
- Can preventing childhood trauma improve adult health? November 2019 Vital Signs
- Enjoy the Wonders of the Season: Winter Fun Guide
- Ultimate Car Seat Guide
- 50 Things To do This Winter Under $5
- Raising Oklahoma: Helping Children Through Trauma
- Dept. of Health to Provide Flu Shots as part of coordinated statewide disaster exercise
- How to Use Liquid Medication for Children
- parentPRO on Talk Radio 1170 (KFAQ)
- Pampers pledges to install 5,000 baby changing tables in men's restroom across the U.S.
- Want Better Employees? Focus on Children
- Child Abuse and Neglect: How to Spot the Signs and Make a Difference
- Three area women start crisis nursery in Oklahoma City
- Parent Educators Take Part In Child Abuse Prevention Program
- Oklahoma H.B. 2259 replaces the word "promptly" to "immediately" when reporting suspected child abuse and/or neglect
- Top 10 things to do this Weekend
- Guide to Metro Parks
- 20 Alternatives to Screen Time
- Free Museums in OKC
- OKC Metro Restaurants Offering Family Discounts (By Day of the Week)
- Can you make 3 meals for $4 a day?
- Stand Up and ROAR: Recognizing and Report Child Abuse Training
- "Deep Down inside i felt like something wasnt normal. And it turns out it wasn't."
- Child Passenger Safety
- Low-Cost Wire Line Home Internet Service
Recalls
Help keep you and your family safe by checking out the Consumer Product Safety Commissions list of recalls.