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 Native American Center of Recovery, Inc.

PO Box 968
Shawnee, OK 74802-0968

Contact: Glenna Jones, Executive Director
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 275-5270
After Hours Phone: Pagers: 615-1401
275-3860
Email: nacor@aol.com 
General Purpose To educate and modify Native American's attitudes, values, beliefs and behavior surrounding the abuse and use of alcohol and other drugs and how if affects the individual, the family, and the community through alcohol and drug treatment and counseling.
Eligibility: Adults 18 years of age and over, target population is the Native American culture, but all other populations are welcome.
Fees: None.
Services: Day treatment - 3 days a week, 4 hours per day, outpatient counseling, referrals, emergency intervention, intake and assessment, aftercare.

 New Directions, A Program for Displaced Homemakers, Single Parents, and Single Pregnant Women

1 John C. Burton Blvd.
Shawnee, OK 74804

Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 273-7493 ext. 211 
After Hours Phone: 878-5733
Email: carolv@mail.gctech.org 
Website: www.gctech.org 
General Purpose Support service to assist individuals in making the often difficult transition from work in the home to self-sufficiency in the labor market.
Eligibility: An individual who has lost their primary source of income through divorce separation, disability or death of a spouse, single pregnant women, single parents who needs job skills to enter the job market.
Fees: None.
Services: Individual and group counseling to provide assessment needs, assistance toward job readiness, assessment of skills, planning for entering the labor market, courses to increase self-esteem, plan careers, upgrade skills, and explore career possibilities.
Use of Volunteers: Job training, career assessment, career counseling, GED, workplace readiness, monthly newsletters, workshops & seminars, personal & professional development, referrals to social service agencies.

 New Wine Ministries & World Outreach Center, Inc.

941 N. Union
Shawnee, OK 74801

Contact: Dr. Ricky D. Parker
Office Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 878-8894
After Hours Phone: 273-3751
General Purpose Christian counseling, pregnancy testing, abortion/option.
Eligibility: Those that need help.
Fees: Counseling based on income, visits $35.00.
Services: Bible school, help for pregnant mothers, counseling, pregnancy tests.
Use of Volunteers: Pregnancy testing, yard & maintenance work.

 Northridge Church of Christ

1001 E. MacArthur
Shawnee, OK 74804

Contact: Cliff Craig
Office Hours: Monday- Friday 9-4
Phone: 275-4180 | Fax:
After Hours Phone: 275-4181
Website: www.northridgecfc.org 

 Oak Park Church of God

PO Box 523
Shawnee, OK 74802-0523

Contact: Reverend Leroy Kerbo
Office Hours:
Phone: 275-4330 | Fax:
After Hours Phone: 275-2485

 Office of Juvenile Affairs
Juvenile Services Unit

1127 N. Kickapoo
Shawnee, OK 74801

Contact: Paula Haney, Assistant District Supervisor 
Jeff Mader, Assistant District Supervisor
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday; on call 24 hours a day
Phone: 275-3219 | Fax:
After Hours Phone: 878-9534
General Purpose To provide intake, probation and parole services to youth and families for the court. Includes care planning and crisis counseling for youth adjudicated delinquents.
Eligibility: Must be adjudicated by the court as delinquent, in need of supervisory or in special circumstance, in need of mental health treatment.
Fees: None.
Services: Counseling to families, individuals and groups, crisis intervention, early intervention through pre and post-court services, coordinating and integrating placement and treatment planning for youth.
Use of Volunteers: OJA welcomes participation of volunteers who have gone through the appropriate screening process.

 Oklahoma Corporation Commission

2nd & 3rd Floors, Jim Thorpe Building
Oklahoma City, OK 73105

Contact: Denise Bode, Chairman
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 521-2267 | Fax:
After Hours Phone: 521-41091
General Purpose Regulates transportation and transmission companies, public utilities, motor carriers, the oil and gas industry, and pipeline safety, determines the market demand for oil and natural gas, allocates production and determines the qualifications of wells.

 Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation

4405 N. Pottenger
Shawnee, OK 74804

Contact: Ronnie Arganbright, State Game Warden
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 521-3851 | Fax:
After Hours Phone: 522-3486
Website: www.wildlifedepartment.com 
Services: Issues hunting and fishing licenses, enforces state hunting and fishing laws at the local level.

 Oklahoma Employment Services

PO Box 217
Shawnee, OK 74802-0217

Contact: Cheryl Cook
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 275-9130 or 275-7800
After Hours Phone: 275-9130
878-9742
Website: www.oesc.state.ok.us  
General Purpose To provide services in a courteous and professional manner. It is a cooperative effort of several service agencies to help others obtain information & services related to career development & employment.
Eligibility: Virtually all of the information and many of the services provided at the center are available without any eligibility requirements. Some services available may require you to meet certain eligibility requirements.
Fees: None.
Services: Job skills assessment, life skills & maintenance, local area jobs information, state & national insurance claims, resume' preparation, area-wide job development & placement, labor market information & statistics.

 Oklahoma Gas & Electric

PO Box 1849
Shawnee, OK 74802-1849

Contact: Customer Service Representatives; For weatherization - Judy Harrell
Office Hours: Customer Service - 24 hours; Judy Harrell - 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: Customer Service - 272-9741; Judy - 553-4492; Customer Service outside OKC - (800) 272-9741 | Fax:  878-0016
After Hours Phone: Same
Email: Judy Harrell - harrelja@oge.com 
Website: www.oge.com 
General Purpose To provide electric service to customers.
Eligibility: In OG&E service territory.
Fees: $20 service initiation fee; Deposit where applicable.
Services: Customer service - report power outage, start/stop service, bill info, products & services, payment arrangements, automated info, Community services - hand-n-hand weatherization; average billing; automatic monthly payment plan; third party notification.

 Oklahoma Human Rights Commission

2101 N. Lincoln, Room 480
Oklahoma City, OK 73105

Contact: Kenneth Kendricks, Executive Director
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 521-2360
After Hours Phone: same | Fax:  522-3635
Email: ohrc@onenet.net 
Website: www.onenet.net/~ohrc2 
General Purpose Enforces Oklahoma's Anti-Discrimination Laws in employment, housing and public accommodations.
Eligibility: Must be a member of one of the protected classes and must have been harmed as a result of discriminatory practices.
Fees: None.
Services: Investigates and disposes of complaints alleging discriminatory practices.

 Oklahoma Insurance Department

PO Box 53408
Oklahoma City, OK 73152-3408

Contact: Carol Fisher, Insurance Commissioner
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 521-2828 | Fax:  521-6652
Website: www.oid.state.ok.us 

 Oklahoma Natural Gas

PO Box 609
Shawnee, OK 74802-0609

Contact: Sherry Bertram
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 273-6000
After Hours Phone: 273-2260 | Fax: 878-6249
General Purpose Utility- gas.
Eligibility: Individual evaluation.
Services: Average pay plan, elderly/handicapped coding, extended payment plan, gatekeeper program, share the warmth.

 Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy

4545 N. Lincoln Boulevard, Suite 112
Oklahoma City, OK 73105-3488

Contact: Bryan Potter, R.Ph., Executive Director; Jerry Koester, Chief Investigator; Mary Ann Terral, Administrative
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 521-3815
After Hours Phone: 556-4100 (pager) | Fax: 521-3758
Email: pharmacy@oklaosf.state.ok.us 
General Purpose To protect citizens of Oklahoma by regulating and enforcing the laws regarding pharmacy practice, manufacturing, sales, distribution, and storage of drugs, medicines, chemicals, and poisons.
Services: The Board conducts examinations for the granting of licenses to pharmacists. The Board is responsible for inspection of premises where pharmaceuticals are dispensed, sold, or stored.

 Oklahoma State Employment Service

PO Box 217
Shawnee, OK 74802-0217

Contact: Cheryl Cook, Manager
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 275-7800 | Fax: 878-9742
General Purpose To find people for jobs, jobs for people.
Eligibility: None, except for those who wish to qualify for unemployment benefits and certain training programs.
Fees: None.
Services: Typing tests, counseling and referral to Supportive Services Training, Trade Adjustment Act training, job development, unemployment insurance for out-of-work claimants, job search workshops, employer relations, Job Corps recruitment/training/placement.

 OSU Extension Services

1301 N. Kennedy
Shawnee, OK 74801

Contact: Sonya Rickman
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - noon, 12:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 273-7683 | Fax:  273-8014
Email: rickmas@okstate.edu 
Eligibility: None.
Fees: None.
Services: Educational materials and programs: nutrition and health, financial management for families, specialized information on parenting education, healthy families Pottawatomie Co first-time parents, referral to other community agencies and services as needed.

 Pottawatomie County Assessor

325 N. Broadway Suite 204
Shawnee, OK 74801

Contact: Joy Anderson, Assessor
Office Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 275-4740
After Hours Phone: 878-0798 | Fax: 273-6450
General Purpose Determines value of real and personal property, maintains ownership of properties, homesteads, agricultural exemptions, change of address, legal descriptions.
Services: We have just recently installed an on-line system for those who frequently use our records.

 Pottawatomie County Bar Association

316-B N. Broadway
Shawnee, OK 74801

Contact: Joe Freeman, President; David Hammons, Vice President; Katherine Vittitow, Secretary; Mary Black, Treasurer
Office Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
Phone: 878-0709