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The Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services (DRS) is an agency of the government of Oklahoma responsible for providing people with physical, mental and visual disabilities with the opportunity to obtain employment and independent living through counseling, job training and other individualized services. DRS helps bridge barriers to ...
Sep. 30—In celebration of October being Disability Employment Awareness Month, the Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services gives information on how residents with disabilities can receive ...
The Oklahoma Department of Human Services is an agency of the government of Oklahoma.Under the supervision of the Oklahoma Secretary of Health and Human Services, Oklahoma Human Services is responsible for providing help to individuals and families in need through public assistance programs and managing services for seniors and people with disabilities.
Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services. Commission for Rehabilitation Services (governing body of department) Committee of Blind Vendors;
Department of Rehabilitation Services: 1079: $136: Provides people with physical, mental and visual disabilities with counseling and job training Health Care Authority: 416: $4,600: Provides health insurance benefits for the state's "SoonerCare" (Oklahoma's Medicaid program) members Office of Juvenile Affairs: 1056: $127
The previous position was established, along with the Oklahoma Governor's Cabinet, by the Executive Branch Reform Act of 1986. The Act directs the Secretary of Human Services to advise the Governor on public assistance policy and advise the state public assistance agencies on new policy as directed by the Governor.
The Department was established through the Mental Health Law of 1953, although publicly supported services to Oklahomans with mental illness date back to before statehood: the first facility in Oklahoma for the treatment of individuals with mental illness was established by the Cherokee Nation, called the Cherokee Home for the Insane, Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, it was built outside the city of ...
The Department of Rehabilitation Services Executive Director, Joe Cordova, had removed Superintendent Jim Adams in May, 2015, and hired Christine Boone, a noneducator and the wife of Doug Boone, the agency's director of visual services. Cordova told Adams that, "... the agency wanted to go in a different direction. [2]