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Education Links
School Information
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
- OU College of Dentistry
- Lawton Community Health center
- Variety Care
- Community Health Centers of Oklahoma
Development Resources
Diapers and Formula
Domestic Violence
Education and Employment
- OCCC GED
- OCCC ESL
- OCCC Capital Hill Center
- Urban League of Greater Oklahoma City
- Central Oklahoma Workforce
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
- Homeless Alliance
- City Care OKC
Financial Assistance
- Salvation Army (Emergency financial assistance for utilities, dependent on availability of funds)
- LIHEAP (Utility assistance program)
- Homeless Prevention - Rent & Utility Assistance
Food
- Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma
- Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma
- Food Banks for Rural Oklahoma
- WIC
- Salvation Army
- Skyline Urban Ministries
- God's Food Bank (Guthrie)
- 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
- Cross and Crown Mission
Furniture
Healthcare
- Community Health Centers of Oklahoma Locations
- Willow Pregnancy Support
- Quit Now Hotline (Tobacco Cessation)
- Crossing Community Clinic
- Skyline Urban Ministries - Eye Clinic
- Hearts for Hearing
- Good Shepherd Clinic (OKC)
- Hope Center Clinic (Edmond)
- OKC Indian Clinic
- Variety Care
- Hope Pregnancy
- Prescription Assistance
Housing
- Oklahoma Housing Financy Agency
- Oklahoma City Housing Authority
- Neighborhood Services Organization (Transitional Housing)
- Catholic Charities
- Homeless/Housing Services
- Housing Services
Legal Assistance
- Legal Aid Service of Oklahoma
- OKC Legal Advice Clinic (3rd Saturday of each month from 9am-12pm)
- Catholic Charities Immigration Services
- Cross and Crown Mission
Literacy and School Readiness
- Reach Out and Read
- 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
- Center For Early Childhood Professional Development
- Understood For Learning and Attention Issues
- CAP Tulsa
- Early Childhood Services
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
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
- The Wonder Weeks
Recalls
Help keep you and your family safe by checking out the Consumer Product Safety Commissions list of recalls.