Oklahoma

The state's housing agency. Runs Housing Choice (Section 8) rental vouchers and can point you to rental assistance in your county. Call 405-419-8000.

If you own your home and are behind on the mortgage, OHFA's homeowner assistance and housing stability programs can help you catch up and avoid foreclosure.

Free lawyers who can defend you in an eviction case and negotiate with your landlord. Call 888-534-5243 as soon as you get an eviction notice.

Monthly cash help for families with children who have little or no income. Apply online at OKDHSLive or at any Oklahoma Human Services county office.

Oklahoma's network of local community action agencies, which give emergency help with rent, utilities, and other bills. Call 405-949-1495 to find the agency for your county.

Local Salvation Army offices across Oklahoma help with emergency rent, utility bills, food, and shelter.

Emergency financial help, food, and case management for anyone in need (you don't have to be Catholic). In the Tulsa area, see Catholic Charities of Eastern Oklahoma.

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will help you fill out the application for free.

Connects uninsured Oklahomans in the OKC area to free clinics and low-cost or free prescription medicine.

Free legal help if you're being sued or harassed by collectors over medical bills. Call 888-534-5243.

Helps pay heating and cooling bills and can stop a shutoff in an energy crisis. Apply online at OKDHSLive or through Oklahoma Human Services.

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Free home upgrades (insulation, sealing, furnace repair) that lower your energy bills for good. Delivered through your local community action agency.

Oklahoma Natural Gas, OG&E, and other utilities fund emergency bill help administered by The Salvation Army. Ask your utility or local Salvation Army office how to apply.

Monthly money on an EBT card for groceries. Apply online in about 30 minutes at OKDHSLive or at any county office.

Free help applying for SNAP, WIC, and other food programs, plus a statewide food resource finder. Call 877-760-0114.

Serves central and western Oklahoma with hundreds of free food pantries. Call or text 405-972-1111 to find food near you.

Serves 24 eastern Oklahoma counties through 600+ pantries and meal sites, and helps with SNAP applications. Based in Tulsa, 918-585-2800.

Free or very low-cost health coverage for adults, kids (CHIP is part of SoonerCare), pregnant women, and people with disabilities. Apply online anytime or call 800-987-7767.

If you earn too much for SoonerCare, most Oklahomans qualify for a subsidized private plan — many pay little or nothing per month.

Find a community health center near you that charges on a sliding scale based on income and never turns anyone away for inability to pay.

Call or text 988 anytime. Oklahoma's state-run crisis line connects you to trained professionals and can send mobile crisis teams instead of police.

The state agency for mental health and addiction treatment; treatment is available even if you can't pay.

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Pays most or all of your child care costs while you work or go to school. Apply online at OKDHSLive.

Free healthy food, formula, and nutrition support for pregnant women and kids under 5. Apply at your county health department.

Free diapers, formula, food, and clothing for babies and toddlers in the OKC metro. Call 405-528-3663.

Free diapers, formula, clothing, and baby supplies for families in the Tulsa area.

Statewide network of American Job Centers with free job search help, training money, resume support, and connections to work supports.

File for unemployment online if you've lost your job or had hours cut. Questions: 405-525-1500.

Free rides to medical appointments for SoonerCare members statewide. Schedule at 877-404-4500 a few days ahead.

Free civil legal help statewide: evictions, family law, benefits denials, debt, and disaster issues. Call 888-534-5243 (Mon–Thu, 9–4).

Free, plain-language legal information and self-help court forms for Oklahoma — eviction answers, protective orders, expungement, and more.

Free legal help for low-income Native Americans on issues involving tribal or federal Indian law. Call 800-658-1497.

Low-cost immigration legal help (green cards, citizenship, humanitarian cases) from accredited representatives.