Oklahoma

Oklahoma Human Services — Developmental Disabilities Services (DDS) / Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (ODMHSAS) Called a Group homes for I/DD (traditional group homes and community living homes, OAC 340:100-6); ODMHSAS-certified BH residential here

Mai Heaven is building small, permanent group homes with real daily support in Oklahoma. We are pre-licence here and cannot place anyone today — this page is so a case manager, discharge planner, or family can see how this housing works in Oklahoma and refer someone for when a home opens.

No home is open in Oklahoma yet. We are still bringing homes online here. If you need help right now, these are the numbers to call today — or put a name on the waiting list so we reach out as places open.

Refer someone in Oklahoma

Case managers, discharge planners, and families can send us someone who needs a place. We'll add them to the waiting list and follow up as homes open.

Refer someone

Who licenses this work in Oklahoma

Oklahoma Human Services — Developmental Disabilities Services (DDS) / Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (ODMHSAS). Any provider operating here should be able to give you a licence number issued by them, and you can check it against the state's own register. A provider who will not show you that is one to walk away from. Oklahoma's official licensing page →

What it is called here

In Oklahoma this kind of home is usually called a Group homes for I/DD (traditional group homes and community living homes, OAC 340:100-6); ODMHSAS-certified BH residential. The word matters when you are searching — families regularly conclude nothing exists near them because they searched the term used in a different state. The full list of state terms is here.

How it is paid for

The Medicaid path most relevant to this housing in Oklahoma is the DDS HCBS Waivers (via OHCA): Community Waiver, Homeward Bound Waiver, In-Home Supports Waivers. Which waiver and funding source actually applies depends on the person — we confirm that with you when we follow up on a referral.

How Medicaid waivers work · How to get on the waiting list

Who we are being built for in Oklahoma

Small, permanent homes for adults who need daily support but not a hospital or a nursing floor: people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, people managing a behavioral-health condition, veterans, people leaving a hospital or treatment with nowhere safe to go, and young people ageing out of foster care.

Who takes hard-to-place referrals in Oklahoma?

That is specifically who Mai Heaven is being built for — a history of refusals, a behaviour plan, a guardianship question, or a mix of diagnoses that does not fit one funding stream. Put the person on the waiting list and we reach out the day a home opens near you. For an immediate need, these are the numbers to call now. To refer, use the referral page.

Common questions families ask

What a supported home costs, what the levels of care mean, how to qualify for disability housing, whether Medicaid pays, and how a supported home differs from assisted living — answered straight:

Hear when a home opens in Oklahoma

Questions about supported homes · Printable touring checklist · For discharge planners · Help available today