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Shape Your Future is dedicated to improving Oklahoma’s health and future through nutrition, fitness education and tobacco-free lifestyles. Shape Your Future encourages parents, caregivers, children and all Oklahomans to eat better, move more and be tobacco free.

This campaign is funded through the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust and the Oklahoma State Department of Health. They proudly support the Oklahoma Health Improvement Plan and its mission to increase the overall health and wellness of Oklahomans.


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Free vision loss training September 19-21 in Tulsa

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Tulsa, Okla. – People who are adjusting to recent blindness or vision loss are encouraged to sign up for free training offered September 19- 21 in Tulsa.

The Training Adults Program goals are to adjust successfully to vision loss, and to work toward regaining independence and the ability to handle daily living tasks.

Visual Services, a division of the Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services, holds r TAP sessions at their Tulsa Vision Center, located at 907 S. Detroit, suite 500.

Pre-registration is required because space in the popular program is limited.

State’s largest support group for blind people to celebrate 10th anniversary September 21

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CLAREMORE, Okla. – People with vision loss and their families are invited to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Claremore Support Group for the Blind and Visually Impaired on Wednesday, September 20.

The event is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Claremore community Center, 2301 N. Sioux.

Visual Services, a division of the Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services, sponsors the support group, which is believed to be the largest of its kind in the state.

Officers elected to lead DRS

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Oklahoma City – Enid bank vice president and community leader April Danahy was recently elected chair of the Commission for Rehabilitation Services.

She previously served as vice chair of the board which governs the Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services. The agency serves more than 83,400 Oklahomans with disabilities.

OKC disability services coordinator named to DRS’ governing board

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Oklahoma City – Emily Cheng of Oklahoma City was recently appointed to the Commission for Rehabilitation Services by Governor Mary Fallin.

The commission is the governing board for the Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services.

DRS annually serves more than 83,400 Oklahomans with disabilities through career planning, employment, independent living, educational programs and the determination of medical eligibility for disability benefits.

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