Community partnerships

A direct support professional's morning might start before 6 a.m. Getting someone dressed. Managing medication schedules exactly on time. Getting them fed, out the door, and to a day program or a job on schedule, not because it's easy, but because it's the job, and because someone's whole day depends on it going right. September 13–19, is DSP Recognition Week. Here in Oklahoma, we want to talk about what that job involves, because most people who've never needed one have no i

When people hear that The Arc of Oklahoma is a Tulsa Area United Way sustainability partner, most assume that means a pool of money we can draw from whenever we need it. Something like a standing grant, there when we need it, drawn down as expenses come up. That is not what this is. A sustainability partnership is not a grant. It is a relationship, and it works differently than most funding does, in ways that actually matter for how we're able to serve families. What a sustai