Services

Information & Referral:  Information regarding services, opportunities or activities provided by various tribal, community or state programs or agencies.

Assistance In Accessing Services:  Assist the family caregiver with filling out applications or contacting various organizations or agencies and providing adequate follow-up.

Training/Support Groups:  Skills training sessions for individual or groups are available to provide the family caregiver with the basic information and skills training to meet the daily activity needs for the elder.  Areas of training include but are not limited to the following:

• Proper Body Mechanics

• Medication Management

• How to Care For Someone on Bed rest

• Fall Preventions

• Communications:  Alzheimer's Disease

• Grief Education for Caregivers of the Elderly

Support Groups are encouraged for participants.  Each approved applicant must attend a one hour training session and a one hour support group session.  Participants have the option of continuing a support group in their community or attending one already in operation.

Respite Services:  Provides family caregivers with temporary relief from their care giving duties.  Eligibility is as follows:

• Applicants must be age 18 or over and meet the definition of a family caregiver.  "Anyone who is currently providing support services to an individual, who for reasons of illness or frailty, cannot manage independently without assistance."

• Elders must be age 55 or older an unable to perform at least two activities of daily living.

• Applicant and elder must reside within the Creek Nation service area.

• Either the family caregiver or the elder must be a member of a federally recognized tribe.

• There are no income requirements at this time.

Note:  Ten percent of this program's funding is appropriated for elder's who are raising children in their home under 18 years of age.  Eligibility is as follows

• Elder must be age 55 or older

• Elder must live within the Creek Nation service area

• Elder must be a member of a federally recognized tribe

• Elder must be the primary care provider of the child, however, legal guardianship is not required

Supplemental Services:  Supplemental services are reserved for those applicants who have been previously approved for Respite Services, who because of emergency situations or family hardship, need extended Respite Services or other services.  These applications must show documentation of need. 

- George Bernard Shaw

Please do not hesitate to contact us at the numbers below with any questions  you may have regarding the services offered by the Health System or eligibility requirements for those services.

(918)756-4333

(800)782-8291 

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