Programs Available through Delta CAA


Asset Development ~ Free Income Tax Preparation!  Delta has staff certified to work with EITC/VITA (Earned Income Tax Credit/Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) Program.  Taxes prepared in a timely manner.  Encourage tax payers to utilize their EITC money to get the maximum benefits, to attend Homebuyer Education Workshop, and Money Management Program.

 Early Childhood                                    

Child Development (Head Start): 291 low-income and/or children with disabilities ages three (3) through five (5) years of age are provided with comprehensive services.  Delta Head Start collaborates with 8 public  schools.  Nine (9) centers housing seventeen (17) classes operate in Duncan, Purcell, Marlow, Blanchard, Lindsay, Maysville, Pauls Valley, and Stratford.  These preschool children are served nutritious breakfast and lunch.  Children are linked to Health Care Providers so that medical and dental checkups can be obtained.  The Head Start program is designed to work with the total child, through physical, cognitive, emotional and social channels in order to allow the child to enter school  ready to learn.  Parents are assisted in developing effective parenting skills.   Family Literacy classes are offered at the Head Start sites for Adult Education/GED Preparation, EarlEducation, Parenting Group, and Regular Parent and Child Together Time.

Emergency Services ~ The Homeless Assistance Program, Emergency Food & Shelter Program, Community Food and Nutrition, Salvation Army, Share the Warmth, Lend A Hand, and local donations provide funds for emergency assistance.  This assistance may include rent deposits, rental  assistance, utility assistance, food, clothing, prescriptions, gasoline, and transportation

Employment  ~  Job Training Funding

Health   ~  Rx for Oklahoma helps medically needy Oklahomans access prescription assistance program provided by pharmaceutical manufacturing companies.  Delta has staff and volunteers to assist with determining eligibility.

Housing/Weatherization                                                                                                  DOE and DHS Weatherization programs provide weatherization services to income eligible customers in Garvin, Stephens  and McClain Counties.  Delta contracts the labor force to do caulking, weather-stripping, repair/replace windows and install attic insulation in order to decrease the high cost of heating during the winter months as well as conserve energy.  Over 2,000 homes have been weatherized since the program began in December 1976.  Delta's Housing program provides services to families seeking to obtain safe, decent affordable housing of their own.  This is achieved by evaluating the needs and resources of each family, then networking them into the various programs that meet their individual challenges.  (These challenges can be for rental housing, home ownership, or just maintaining their current home.)  Delta, working with local partners, provides home ownership education and housing counseling.  This education enables families to understand the process of looking for, purchasing and maintaining a home of their own.    Delta operates one transitional house, which provides temporary housing to approximately 4 families per year who are in need of emergency housing.

Nutrition ~ Child Care Food Program, Senior Congregate Meal Sites, Meal Delivery to Residences                                                 The Delta Senior Citizens Congregate Meal Program reaches approximately 524 senior citizens daily with a hot, nutritionally balanced noon meal.  Meals are provided five days per week.  Delta operates 9 nutrition sites in Purcell, Washington, Wayne, Blanchard, Byars, Duncan (2 sites), Comanche, and Marlow, preparing and serving 131,000 meals annually.  Supportive services are also provided for each center.

Senior Citizens ~ Foster Grandparents
This program was developed by Sergeant Shriver as a component of President Lyndon B Johnson's War on Poverty and was intended to demonstrate that life-experience of limited-income seniors makes them especially well suited to form meaningful supportive relationships with children with exceptional or special needs.

Transit  ~ Demand Response, Job Access, Medical, Special Needs Children
Delta public Transit provides public transit services to the residents of McClain and Garvin counties.  the system provides demand-response transit services throughout the county, which includes door to door transportation in order to meet medical, social, nutrition, entertainment, and many more transportation needs.  In addition, the system contracts with Head Start and Senior Nutrition Programs to provide daily transit services for their consumers. 

Youth ~ Summer Programs, Tutoring, Mentoring, Juvenile Community Service