Christie Baldridge
Deep Fork Community Action Foundation, Inc.
We serve the following counties; Okmulgee, Okfuskee, McIntosh, and Hughes
We offer assistance to our communities, such as:
Social Services; food, rent and utilities, and emergency Rx's
Emergency Solutions Grant Help (Homeless Prevention, Shelter and Rapid Re-Housing), Financial Education, Safe & Affordable Housing (Several Housing Programs), Rx for Oklahoma (also serves Muskogee County), VITA site, Self-Help Housing (which services 13 counties, a Child and Adult Care Food Program and MUCH MUCH more.
Deep Fork Community Action Foundation, Inc. (DFCAF) exists today as a direct result of the Federal Economic Act of 1964 and is a successful part of the "War on Poverty" initiated by President Lyndon Johnson.
The agency was created as a single county program covering Okmulgee County in January of 1966. In 1968, DFCAF grew to include McIntosh County. In 1983, Hughes and Okfuskee Counties also merged with DFCAF through the direction of the Oklahoma Department of Commerce. Hughes, McIntosh, Okfuskee, and Okmulgee Counties now form the base service area from which Deep Fork Community Action Foundation, Inc. draws its members for its Board of Directors.
58 years in operation, DFCAF is a 501c(3) non-profit organization with over 20 employees. DFCAF is monitored annually by each its main funding sources.