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Zarrow Institute on Transition & Self-Determination
The Zarrow Institute offers a variety of transition-related curriculum, assessments, and other resources. They also host the Zarrow Summer Institute which explores current topics in transition research and Sooner Works, a comprehensive integrated program for students with an intellectual or developmental disability who desire a postsecondary experience on a college campus.
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Youth Services of Tulsa
Youth Services of Tulsa (YST) has helped Tulsa area youth and their families since 1969. YST constantly adapts to stay on top of the ever-changing, increasingly complex needs of young people, ages 12 to 24. YST is the only Tulsa non-profit organization focused solely on adolescents and young adults. YST programs are focused on counseling, runaway and homeless youth, delinquency prevention, and youth development.
- Counseling
- Adolescent Emergency Shelter
- SAFE Place
- Health Services
- Re-entry
- Youth Court
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Youth Leadership Forum
Youth Leadership Form is a program organized by the Developmental Disabilities Council of Oklahoma. In this program, youth will spend a week on a college campus with other students who have a disability and are from Oklahoma. They’ll participate in activities to help them improve their leadership and advocacy skills, explore career options, meet with state legislators, create a leadership plan to reach THEIR GOOD LIFE and so much more!
The mission of the Developmental Disabilities Council of Oklahoma is to advance communities where everyone has the opportunity to live, learn, work, and play where they choose. The Council builds partnerships to change systems to improve services, resources, and supports for Oklahomans with developmental disabilities and their families.
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The Bridges Foundation
The Bridges Foundation was founded in 1964 by a group of parents who wanted a place for their loved one’s with developmental disabilities to gain vocational training, grow life-skills, and increase independence. The mission of the Bridges Foundation quickly became to enhance the quality of life for individuals with developmental disabilities, their families, and our community through training, education, employment services and advocacy.
Today, the agency continues to put this mission into action by providing connections to quality job placements, supported community employment, on-the-job training, and community resources to both the clients and their families.
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Sooner SUCCESS
Sooner SUCCESS promotes a comprehensive, coordinated system of health, social and educational services for Oklahoma children and youth with special needs…in their Community. Sooner SUCCESS addresses barriers by promoting community capacity and infrastructure spread in communities and at regional and state levels.
- Health Care Transition
- On the Road
- Respite
- Lifespan Respite Voucher Program
- Supporting Parents with Disabilities
- SUCCESS for life
- SibShops
- Oklahoma Sibling Leadership Network/OK SIBS
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Savannah Station
Savannah Station Therapeutic Riding Program, Inc., a nonprofit therapeutic riding facility located in Yukon, Oklahoma, has been changing lives for people with disabilities since 2013. Savannah Station TRP serves a large population center as the only therapeutic riding program on the west side of the Oklahoma City metro. Savannah Station is a community of humans and horses, ministering fully to individuals and families; assisting them to overcome life’s limitations, to gain social and emotional confidence, and defy disabilities and challenges, while building families and friendships.
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Pervasive Parenting Center
Pervasive Parenting Center provides assistance to families in eastern Oklahoma affected by autism and other developmental disabilities. They strive to provide a better life for the families in eastern Oklahoma who are coping with disabilities. Pervasive Parenting Center covers LeFlore, Sequoyah, Haskell, Cherokee, Adair, and Latimer Counites in eastern Oklahoma.
The Pervasive Parenting Center specializes in
- Trainings/workshops for businesses, organizations, communities and schools including inclusion, people first language, emergency personnel training, sexuality, and assistive technology.
- Trainings/workshops for parents and families
- Advocacy
- IEP trainings
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Peaceful Family Oklahoma
Peaceful Family Oklahoma provides free child-centered programs to children ages 7-18 and their caregivers, as well as family support groups. They offer the only peer-to-peer program in Oklahoma specifically designed to help children affected by addiction in their families.
Peaceful Family Oklahoma is a nonprofit agency founded to break the cycle of addiction in families. Peaceful Family Oklahoma was founded to help the children of addiction and is the only organization in Oklahoma focused solely on helping children of parents with addiction heal.
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Oklahoma Parents Center
Oklahoma Parents Center (OPC) specializes in special education support for people with disabilities from birth to age 26 and their families. They have been providing services to Oklahoma parents and family members of children with disabilities, young adults with disabilities, and the professionals who serve them since 2000!
The OPC helps families work with early intervention, education, and transition systems and services. They also help youth and young adults with disabilities get high-quality services that increase their capacity to be effective self-advocates.
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Oklahoma Human Services
Oklahoma Human Services (OKDHS) helps more than 1.5 million Oklahomans each year across a wide range of services including food assistance, child support, child care, reporting abuse, disabilities services and caretaker needs among others.
OKDHS exists to make sure that when a person falls on hard times, they have a place to turn. Where OKDHS does not offer a program or assistance for a specific situation, they are committed to connecting the person in need with an organization that can help.
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