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Business Services Program

Ready to Serve Your Business

Call us at 1-833-OKDRS4U
( 1-833-653-7748 )

Employers, business owners and supervisors, DRS Business Services Program can be a resource for your business:

  • We send you qualified job candidates
  • Our candidates are loyal employees, offering lower turnover
  • Tax credits may be available

The Business Services Program helps employers with their business needs and helps them find employees they can count on.

Entitlement to Taxpayer

Graphic of the state of Oklahoma with pictures of people with disabilities working.

A female nurse walks into a patient's room.
(Anncr) More Oklahomans are getting off Social Security disability and going to work than ever before. They get help from DRS.
And taxpayers save more than $15 million dollars every year.

A businessman in a wheelchair talking with a woman in an office.

Businessman: "DRS helped me train and get paid for the work I do..."

Nulse: "...so I don't need a disability check anymore."

An instructor in a classroom: "And now I'm a taxpayer rather than someone on disability benefits."

(Anncr) If you get disability benefits and want to work, call the Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services:
1-866-882-4515. Together, we make it happen.

Benefits to employers:

  • A wide variety of free training for your staff.
  • Tax incentives for hiring our candidates and making your workplace accessible.
  • Determine if the job and your business are a good fit with the potential employee with DRS’ On-the-Job Training.
  • Support for our candidates with follow up and accommodation needs.
  • Paid internships and paid work experience.
  • Increase revenues by having a workplace that reflects the customers served.
  • A loyal and skilled workforce with lower turnover that will reduce your costs.

Employing people with disabilities helps generate revenues by allowing you to tap into the disability market, build brand trust and loyalty, and create new products and services.

Courtesy Rules

When hiring people with disabilities it is good to know the “do’s” and “don’ts” of communication. Here is a simple introduction to understanding how to communicate with persons with the most common disabilities. We hope this information clears up misconceptions, encourages healthy relationships and promotes inclusion in your workplace.

Frequently Asked Questions

Read the most common answers to popular questions asked of the BSP staff. 

CSAVR's Abilities in Abundance: Our Continued Commitment to Inclusive Employment

Other Resources

United States Department of Labor Section 503 Focused Review

Whether or not you're a government contractor, this web page has a wealth of information regarding hiring people with disabilities.

Work Opportunity Tax Credit

The Work Opportunity Tax Credit is offered to employers who hire people from specified target groups. WOTC reduces a business’s federal tax liability, serving as an incentive to select job candidates with disabilities.

The Federal Bonding Program

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Federal Bonding program offers a proven and effective tool for workforce development staff to help both employers and at-risk job applicants at no cost.

Central Area

COUNTIES SERVED A-G   COUNTIES SERVED G-K   COUNTIES SERVED M-W 
Adair Muskogee Sequoyah
Cherokee Okmulgee Tulsa
Creek Osage     Wagoner
McIntosh Pawnee  

BSP Liaison Merlyn Romero

Office: 405-522-7975
Mobile: 405-464-6032
Fax: 405-522-7980

email: mromero@okdrs.gov

Green Country (Eastern/Tulsa Area)

COUNTIES SERVED A-G   COUNTIES SERVED G-K   COUNTIES SERVED M-W 
Adair Muskogee Sequoyah
Cherokee Okmulgee Tulsa
Creek Osage     Wagoner
McIntosh Pawnee

BSP Liaison Victoria Davila

Office: 918-551-4951
Mobile 918-600-5742
Fax: 918-551-4936

email: vdavila@okdrs.gov

Northeast Area

COUNTIES SERVED A-G   COUNTIES SERVED G-K   COUNTIES SERVED M-W 
Craig Nowata Rogers
Delaware Ottawa Washington
Mayes    

BSP Liaison Sumpa Akhter

Office: 918-551-4952
Mobile 918-313-9159
Fax: 918-551-4936

email: sumpa.akhter@okdrs.gov

South Central Area

COUNTIES SERVED A-G   COUNTIES SERVED G-K   COUNTIES SERVED M-W 
Caddo
Grady
Stephens
Comanche Jefferson Tillman
Cotton McClain

BSP Liaison Debra Leffler

Office: 580-585-4213
Mobile: 580-353-9876
Fax: 580-585-4234

Email: DLeffler@okdrs.gov

Southern Area

COUNTIES SERVED A-G   COUNTIES SERVED G-K   COUNTIES SERVED M-W 
Atoka Haskell  McCurtain
Bryan  Johnston  Murray
Carter  Latimer Pittsburg
Choctaw Leflore Pontotoc
Coal Love Pushmataha
Garvin  Marshall  

BSP Job Placement Specialist: Judith Lawler

Office: 405-522-7945
Mobile: 405-642-8646
Fax: 405-522-7980

Email: jlawler@okdrs.gov

Western Area

COUNTIES SERVED A-G   COUNTIES SERVED G-K   COUNTIES SERVED M-W 
Alfalfa  Garfield Major
Beaver Grant Noble
Beckham Harmon Payne
Blaine Harper Roger Mills
Cimarron Jackson Texas
Custer Kay Washita
Dewey Kingfisher Woods
Ellis Kiowa Woodward

BSP Liaison Christine Wishon

Office: 580-616-7901
Mobile: 580-748-0171
Fax: 580-616-7928

Email: Cwishon@okdrs.gov

 

BSP Job Placement Specialist:
Alisha Norwood

Mobile: 580-548-6793

Email: ANorwood@okdrs.gov