~~“This informational packet is meant as a starting point to finding training resources in Oklahoma. Many programs are dependent upon outside funding, so some programs may be unavailable while new ones may have started.
This packet provides resources for people seeking training due to a disability, criminal background, and loss of previous job.”
“The Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Services (OSDE-SES) is committed to providing guidance and support in order to promote excellence in education from infancy to adulthood for children with disabilities as outlined in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA).”
This page has links to information resources for students with disabilities.
”Our mission is to help individuals with developmental disabilities and their families help themselves to lead safer, healthier, more independent and productive lives.
Developmental Disabilities Services (DDS) serves persons ages 3 and up who have a primary diagnosis of intellectual disabilities. Persons served may also have other developmental disabilities in addition to intellectual disabilities such as autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, etc.”
“The Oklahoma Office of Workforce Development (OOWD) as the Governor’s chosen Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) administrative entity, provides this issuance as guidance to the workforce system on the State of Oklahoma’s Data Validation and Source Documentation Requirements for the WIOA Title I Programs and the Wagner-Peyser Employment Services as amended by Title III.”
~~“The Oklahoma Works Conference is the educational training event of the year for partners working in workforce development. The Conference will take place May 1-3, 2019, and include important content for all partners with workshops including:
• Case Management
• Customer Service
• EEO/Accessibility
• Apprenticeships
• Financial/Infrastructure
• HSE Testing Vendors
• Adult Basic Education Program Strategies
• ABE/Workforce Co-enrollment Strategies
• Career Pathways
• Expunging Records
• Performance”
~~This page lists the types of services offered by the current contracted providers
“Provider Agencies contracting for Community Services through Developmental Disabilities Services Division (DDSD). The following is a list of current contracted providers”
This page contains WIOA Policies for Oklahoma.
~~“Legal Aid of Oklahoma, Inc. was awarded a statewide 2019 CMS Navigator Cooperative Agreement serving “Left behind” populations—working poor; lower income residents with life changing events such as divorce or new custody actions; hourly wage workers in retail and food service; and independent contractors. There are no Sub-awardee/Subrecipient Contracted Organizations. They will partner with Chambers of commerce, Small business and trade associations, Faith-based organizations, Community-based primary care and pediatric providers, Local Social Security offices, OK State Department of Health, and Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) locations across the state. For more information, please contact the designated project lead.
Contact:
Gayla Machell
Phone: (405) 557-0049
Email: gayla.machell@laok.org ”
~~“Riata Center for Entrepreneurship, Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, Oklahoma): Veterans Entrepreneurship Program (VEP) …
VEP opens the door to small business ownership by developing skills needed to create and sustaining a business, while coordinating the offering of additional programs and services for service-disabled veterans….
The funding opportunity, offered by SBA’s Office of Veterans Business Development, supports each organization’s programs for service-disabled veterans planning to start a new business or expand and diversify existing small businesses. Each awardee was chosen based on their demonstrated history of and commitment to providing training programs and resources to service-disabled veterans.”
Ҥ40-360. Short title РOklahoma Employment First Act РDefinitions.
A. This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Oklahoma Employment First Act”.
B. All state agencies shall coordinate efforts and shall collaborate within and among such agencies to ensure that state programs, policies, procedures and funding support competitive integrated employment of individuals with disabilities. All state agencies shall, whenever feasible, share data and information across systems in order to track progress toward full implementation of this act…
D. As used in this act:
1. “Competitive employment” means work in the competitive labor market, or self-employment, that is performed on a full-time or part-time basis in an integrated setting with the opportunity for advancement and for which a person with a disability is compensated at or above the minimum wage but not less than the customary wage and level of benefits paid by the employer for the same or similar work performed by persons without disabilities;
2. “Disability” means, with respect to an individual:
a. a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of such individual,
b. a record of such an impairment, or
c. being regarded as having such an impairment as defined in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended;
3. “Integrated setting” means, with respect to an employment outcome, a setting typically found in the community in which applicants or eligible individuals interact with persons without disabilities, other than those who are providing services to those applicants or eligible individuals, to the same extent that individuals without disabilities in comparable positions interact with other persons…”