The Office of Veteran Services helps veterans and their families apply for benefits. Counselors help with filing forms.

Benefits include:

• Clothing for service connected disabled vets
• Extra benefits for children of disabled vets
• Financial help for surviving spouses of wartime vets
• Financial help for those injured in line of duty
• Grants for auto equipment for severely disabled
• Grants for home improvements for severely disabled
• Help for those confined to home, hospital or nursing home
• Help in getting VA Medical Care
• Help in receiving eligibility for home loans
• Help with appealing VA decisions
• Help with education benefits
• Pension benefits for wartime era vets
• Training for employment/education

Contact for more information.

Okeechobee County Health Department provides health care services to those within the community. Some services are given at low to no-cost.

Services include:

• Bio-Terrorism Preparedness
• Clinic
• Environmental Health
• School Health
• Vital Statistics
• Women Infants & Children

Grace Works Unlimited, Inc. provides Operation Christmas Blessings. This program helps supply Christmas trees and decorations. They also provide gift cards, wrapping supplies, and presents for the whole family. Please call or visit website for more information.

This group offers the Critical Financial Assistance Program. The program helps military families with grants and not loans. Help is also given in the form of grocery cards. The payments are made directly to service providers. There are eligibility criteria that must be met. Please call or visit the website for more information.

Usual Types of Assistance Are:

This agency is a clinic for those addicted to certain drugs like opium or heroin.

• Patients must be judged to be suffering from a chronic addiction
• Patients will receive a physical exam by the center's licensed medical director
• The medical director determines if the patient will be admitted

Please call for more information.

LEAP is a community-based program. It is designed to help people with mental illnesses better their personal, social and vocational competency. Contact for more information.