Absentee Shawnee Housing Authority
"One Stop
Shop" Resident Service Center
107 1/2 N. Kimberly
Shawnee, OK 74801
Email: asthsgauth@aol.com
Phone: 273-1050 ext. 237 | Fax: 275-0678
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Contact: Glen Edwards, President
Service Coordinator;
Carol Franklin, Mutual Housing
Purpose: Tribal housing.
Eligibility: Resident of the Absentee
Shawnee Housing Authority - mutual help, low rent or F.S.S. program.
Fees: None.
Services: Education, literacy,
employment readiness, transportation, job referral, family self sufficiency program, computer training, counseling, maintenance training. |
Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma
2025 S. Gordon Cooper Dr.
Shawnee, OK 74801
Contact: Kenneth Blachard, Lt. Governor
Office Hours: 8:00 - 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 275-4030 | Fax: 275-1922
Website: www.absenteeshawneetribe.com
Purpose: We are a tribal government that
attempts to meet the needs of our people through various programs and services.
Eligibility: Eligibility varies according
to each program. Each program director can enlighten applicants on Eligibility
requirements.
Fees: None.
Services: Day care, community
development, clothing, dental, drug/alcohol outpatient, employment assistance,
foster care, home health, meals delivered, medical services, referral,
weatherization, well baby care, education.
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Action Center, City of Shawnee
222 N. Broadway
Shawnee, OK 74801
Contact: Paula Taylor
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 878-1602 | Fax: 878-1587
Purpose: To provide a central location for
city service complaints & information.
Services: Receives and responds to
inquiries concerning city related activities and city related complaints such
as: sanitation, water, sewer, streets, signal lights, code violations, etc.;
provides follow-up on inquiries or complaints with a written response.
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Action, Inc.
510 W. Benedict
Shawnee, OK 74801
Contact: Bill Sheilds, Executive
Director
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 275-6060 | Fax: 214-4326
Email: bshield@cocaa.org
Website: www.cocaa.org
Purpose: To serve the needs of low income,
elderly, and minority individuals, and alleviate the causes of poverty.
Eligibility: Poverty guideline or
temporary need/assistance.
Fees: None.
Services: Day care center referral, Head
Start handicap consortium administrator, housing counseling, legal aid referral,
emergency food, commodity food distribution, affirmative action advocacy,
consumer education, employment/career counseling, meals.
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Alfred Rutledge Senior Center
Project H.E.A.R.T.,
Inc.
PO Box 722
McLoud, OK 74851
Contact: Carolyn Gorgas, Site Manager
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 964-2425 | Fax: 964-2425
Purpose: Nutrition for the elderly. To
enhance the longevity of the older person's life at home.
Eligibility: Must be 60 years of age or
older, or spouse of person that age.
Fees: $1.25 is suggested for the meal, but no one
is denied a meal if they do not have they money. Homebound meals are $1.50
donation, contract meals are $1.75.
Services: Congregate meals at the senior
nutrition center, homebound meals for those who are unable to come to the site,
transportation to and from the site for those congregate participants who need
assistance, nutrition education, information and referral.
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American Association of Retired Persons
1819 N. Beard
Shawnee, OK 74804
Contact: Phyllis Crossweell, President
AARP #2654
Office Hours: Meets 2nd Saturday of each month at
Liberty Baptist Church at 10:30 a.m.
Phone: 997-5629
Purpose: To serve, and not to be served.
Eligibility: To be a member of the local
chapter you also need to be a member of the national chapter. Members must be 50
years old and older.
Fees: Local dues are $2.00, national dues are
$8.00.
Services: Community service work, food
baskets, educational and entertaining programs, visiting in nursing homes, good
health, auto and home insurance benefits, organized trips, meals on wheels
volunteering.
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American Red Cross
Mid-Central Oklahoma Chapter
110 N. Bell Suite 613
Shawnee, OK 74801
Contact: Jason Codwell
Office Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 273-8800 | Fax: 273-8806
After Hours Phone: 273-8800
Purpose: This is a humanitarian
organization, led by volunteers, that provides relief to victims of disasters
and helps people prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies. It does this
through services that are consistent with its congressional Charter.
Eligibility: Eligibility: for services are
determined on a case by case basis.
Fees: The only Fees: are for materials for classes
such as textbooks and workbooks.
Services: Services for our Armed Forces
and Veterans, disaster services, blood services, safety services, volunteer
services, and international services.
Use of Volunteers: Volunteers are needed to do
office work, help disaster victims, emergency cases, and organize and work blood
drives.
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Area Prevention Resource Center at Gateway
1010 E. 45th
Shawnee, OK 74804
Contact: Jan Tipton, Director of
Training & Prevention
Debbie Rector, Prevention Coordinator
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 275-3391 | Fax: 275-5132
Email: jantipton@Gatewaytoprevention.org
Purpose: To provide comprehensive
prevention services to the community.
Eligibility: Any person or organization in
Pottawatomie or Lincoln Counties.
Fees: Vary - most services are free.
Services: Informational resource on
substance abuse, check out videos, curriculum, books, posters, and brochures.
Assistance in forming prevention organizations and task forces with all ages.
Training for those who work with youth. Speakers on substance abuse.
Use of Volunteers: Secretarial work on newsletter
mailing and assistance to staff who do direct services in the schools.
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Arts Council
Jim Thorpe Building Room 640
Oklahoma City, OK 73105
Contact: Karen Wallace
Phone: 521-2931 | Fax: 521-6418
Local representative 275-2850
Email: karenw@arts.ok.state.us
Website: www.arts.ok.us
Purpose: Encourages the cultural
development of Oklahoma by seeking to insure that cultural opportunities are
reasonably available to all citizens of the state.
Services: Works cooperatively with
non-profit community cultural organizations and individuals involved
professionally or voluntarily in the arts.
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Asher Elderly Nutrition Center
Project H.E.A.R.T.
PO Box 97
Asher, OK 74826
Contact: Lorene Malone, Site Manager
Cynthia Wright, Outreach
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 784-2244 | Fax: 784-2244
After Hours Phone: 784-2211
Purpose: Nutrition for the elderly, to
visit with other people, make new friends.
Eligibility: Must be 60 years or older, or
spouse of someone 60 years or older.
Fees: $1.25 is the suggested donation for the
meal, but no one is denied a meal if they do not have they money.
Services: Congregate meals, homebound meals for those who are unable to come to the site, nutrition education, information
and referral, recreation and socialization, advocacy for the senior citizen,
health screening, youth interaction with the elderly.
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Attorney General
Room 112 State Capitol Building
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105
Contact: Drew Edmondson
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 521-3921 | Fax: 521-6246
Website: www.oag.state.ok.us
Purpose: Serves as chief law officer of
the state as well as counsel to all state agencies, boards, and commissions;
renders his opinion on legal questions submitted to him by entities which he
represents; takes legal action to protect state monies & properties.
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Auditor and Inspector
Room 100 State Capitol Building
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105
Contact: Jeff. A McMahan
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 521-3495 | Fax: 405-521-3426
Email: sputnam@sai.state.ok.us
Website: www.sai.state.ok.us
Purpose: Audits state agencies and county
governments, maintains audits for cities and towns, registers charities and
professional fund raisers, conducts and maintains files of trust audits.
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Bethel Temple Full Gospel Church
1102 E. 9th
Shawnee, OK 74801
Contact: Jim Butters
Phone: 273-1691
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Bible Temple
1114 Chandler
Shawnee, OK 74801
Contact: Guy Cagle
Phone: 275-0563
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Big Brothers/Big Sisters
of Pottawatomie & Seminole
Counties
407 N. Louisa
Shawnee, OK 74801
Contact: Angela Patterson
Office Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
(other hours can be arranged)
Phone: 275-3553 | Fax: 275-3553
Purpose: To provide children between 5-16
from single parent families with adult volunteers. The primary goal is to
provide the children with the kind of adult companionship & guidance they
may not receive.
Eligibility: Children must come from
single parent households, be between 5-16 years old and live in Pott. or
Seminole County. Volunteers must be 18 or older, have transportation, and live
in bi-county area.
Fees: None.
Services: Big Brothers/Big Sisters core
program provides role model for children, couple matches, agency activities
program, training for volunteers & parents.
Use of Volunteers: Big Brother/Big Sister, couples
program (married for 1 year), internships, "Kampus Kids" (St.
Gregory's students), Junior Board (High School Juniors & Seniors), office
help, committees (Bowl for Kids' Sake and other fundraisers).
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Bureau of Indian Affairs
624 W. Independence Suite 112
Shawnee, OK 74804
Contact: Francis Wetselline, Realtor Specialist
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - noon, 1:00 p.m. - 4:30
p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 273-0317 | Fax: 273-0072
Purpose: To serve as administrator or
contracts between the six tribal groups under the jurisdiction of the Shawnee
Agency and to further serve as a referral source to eligible Indians requiring
any program or services offered by the BIA.
Eligibility: Individual tribes establish Eligibility requirements.
Fees: None.
Services: Referrals, administrative
overseer.
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C.A.R.E. Association Adult Day Center
26 Father Joe Murphy Drive
Shawnee, OK 74801
Contact: Donna Macrer, Executive
Director
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 275-5420 | Fax: 275-6336
Purpose: To promote and maintain
independence in elderly persons and provide caregiver relief.
Eligibility: 60 years and over. Waiver
available for people under 60.
Fees: Contact: C.A.R.E. Association for this
information.
Services: Transportation, meals,
medication, snacks, activities, physical exercise, various therapies, special
events, field trips, Bingo, shopping, holiday and "special" events
celebrations.
Use of Volunteers: Volunteers needed to present
entertainment, devotional studies, musical sing-a-longs, assist with activities.
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Central Church of Christ
10th & Bell
Shawnee, OK 74801
Contact: Jarline Bates
Phone: 275-3065
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