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Women Veterans Program — a Statutory Coordinator, Not a Courtesy Desk

Statute requires the state veterans department to run a Women Veterans Program housed in the Executive Director’s own office, to designate a women veterans coordinator for the state, and to report to the Governor and Legislature every even-numbered year on the number of women veterans and the problems they face.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

Statute requires the state veterans department to run a Women Veterans Program housed in the Executive Director’s own office, to designate a women veterans coordinator for the state, and to report to the Governor and Legislature every even-numbered year on the number of women veterans and the problems they face.

What it's worth: A named state coordinator, outreach, needs assessment and application guidance

  • The section defines "woman veteran" as a woman who served on active duty in the armed forces of the United States, or in the Oklahoma National Guard on federal active duty under Title 10, and was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable.
  • The programme is housed within the office of the Executive Director, and the Executive Director designates a women veterans coordinator for the state.
  • Its stated mission is equitable access to federal and state veterans’ benefits and services.
  • The statutory duties include outreach on eligibility, assessment of needs, review of programmes and research projects, recommendations to the Executive Director, and incorporating women veterans’ issues into departmental planning.
  • The section also requires guidance and direction — through conferences, seminars and training workshops — to women veterans applying for grants, benefits or services.
  • The department may accept and spend appropriated funds and donations and grants, and may provide matching grants toward the programme’s goals.
  • The department describes the coordinator as reachable on 405-523-4020 and at okwomenvets@odva.ok.gov, with appointments bookable online.
  • This is a service and advocacy programme. No section read this session attaches a payment to it.

Who is entitled to it

  • The programme serves the veteran directly.
  • Your discharge is within the range the definition covers.
  • Your home is in Oklahoma.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

  1. 1Contact the coordinator directly rather than going through a general benefits line. The post is statutory and sits in the Executive Director’s office, which is unusually senior for an outreach role.
  2. 2Ask for help with an application specifically. Providing guidance to women veterans applying for grants, benefits or services is written into the section as a duty.
  3. 3Note the definition covers Guard service on federal active duty under Title 10, not state duty alone.
  4. 4The discharge test in the definition is "other than dishonorable", which is broader than the honourable-only test many state benefits use. If a bad-paper discharge has kept you out of other programmes, ask here anyway.
  5. 5The department publishes newsletters, a podcast and a community group alongside the statutory functions; ask to be added if you want to hear about events.
  6. 6Raise systemic problems as well as your own. The department must report to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Veterans Commission and Legislature by 1 November of each even-numbered year on the unique problems women veterans face, and that report is built from what is reported to it.
Form
No form — contact the coordinator
File with
Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs, office of the Executive Director
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
Worth knowingThe eligibility gate shown here is the discharge test and nothing more, because service by a woman is not something this tool asks about. The statutory programme is for women veterans; read the definition in the assumptions before relying on the match.
Worth knowingThe statutory discharge test — "other than dishonorable" — is wider than the honourable-or-general test used for most state reliefs here. That difference is deliberate in the section and worth quoting to anyone who tells you otherwise.
Known gapNo section read this session gives the programme money of its own to pay to an individual. Whether any of the matching grants in subsection C have ever reached a veteran directly was not established.

Sources

This finder provides an informational match, not a government eligibility determination. The responsible agency decides your application.