Adult & Family Services
What We Do
Adult and Family Services (AFS) empowers nearly one million Oklahomans navigating economic hardship by delivering essential resources that make everyday life less challenging. From putting food on the table and reducing utility costs to connecting individuals with job training and transportation, we help families take meaningful steps toward stability.
Through the administration of key federal assistance programs, we ensure that eligible individuals and families receive the support they need—when they need it most.
Our mission is to provide meaningful support that helps families stabilize, grow, and thrive—because every Oklahoman deserves the opportunity to build a better future.
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5050 Line (405-522-5050)
Additional Information
Adult and Family Services (AFS) delivers a range of vital programs designed to support eligible individuals and families across Oklahoma. These services provide critical assistance for basic needs, financial stability, and long-term well-being:
SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program): The SNAP provides benefits to help low-income individuals and families access nutritious food in locations like grocers and farmers markets across the state.
To help able-bodied unemployed SNAP recipients achieve economic self-sufficiency, AFS has a SNAP Employment and Training (E&T) program that provides opportunities to reduce barriers to finding and maintaining employment through job search, training and support, vocational education, job retention services, on-the-job training and soft skills development.
TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families): The TANF program provides parents with 100 percent federally funded, time-limited cash assistance, job training, education, and employment services to help families reach and sustain economic self-sufficiency. Families may also receive services such as financial planning, parenting skills and after-school mentoring programs for children.
Refugee Resettlement Assistance: Provides essential services to refugees, including initial housing, food, medical care, and English language classes, alongside employment and social adjustment support, all funded through federal grants.
LIHEAP (Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program): The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) provides winter heating, summer cooling, and energy crisis assistance program (ECAP) funding to eligible low-income households during specific application periods throughout each year.
Life-threatening energy crisis assistance is available throughout the year for households with a member requiring lifesaving medical equipment or whose medical condition would cause a life-threatening situation during extreme temperatures.
State Supplemental Payment (SSP): Provides additional financial support to eligible low-income persons who are 65 years of age or older, disabled, or blind receiving federal benefits.
Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs: DHS administers funds from Title V federal grant which pays for respite care, equipment, and formula not covered by Title XIX for this population ensuring access to specialized services for young people with complex medical conditions.
