Guiding You to a Brighter Tomorrow
OK-APSE Believes in Employment First
We empower individuals with disabilities, job coaches, service providers, and Oklahoma businesses to build competitive integrated employment with equitable wages, career growth, and dignified opportunities.
Empowering Professionals, Trusted by Top Oklahoma Organizations
Welcome to Oklahoma APSE
Dedicated to Your Growth and Well-being
Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey? At Oklahoma APSE, we believe that every individual holds the power to create a fulfilling and purposeful career. Our mission is to help Oklahomans with disabilities unlock their true potential and achieve competitive integrated employment with equal compensation.
Our Approach
Unlock Your Best Self with OK-APSE
We champion competitive integrated employment as the foundational standard for every working-age Oklahoman with disabilities. Real work with real wages transforms lives, communities, and local economies.
Dignity in Every Career
Personalized Job Development
Tailored vocational assessments matching unique strengths and interests to genuine community business needs.
Systemic Accountability
Building tools and coalition capabilities that direct lasting legislative and funding policy reform across Oklahoma.
Transformative Coaching Techniques
Evidence-based on-the-job training methods empowering self-reliance, coworker natural supports, and career mobility.
Empowerment and Support
Centering self-advocates and families as primary voices in all employment planning and chapter governance decisions.
Our Process
Step-by-Step Guidance to Your Success
Supported employment is an evidence-based roadmap that yields higher retention and rewarding careers.
Discovery & Assessment
Begins with person-centered exploration to understand unique strengths, interests, and career ambitions.
Job Matching & Placement
Collaborative outreach to Oklahoma employers to negotiate customized, mutually beneficial workplace roles.
Coaching & Long-term Support
Structured on-site job coaching, fading systematically as coworker natural supports and self-reliance flourish.
2026 Oklahoma APSE Employment Conference
Join employment consultants, self-advocates, vocational rehabilitation counselors, educators, and business champions across Oklahoma for two inspiring days of training, policy discussions, and community connections.
Conference Highlights
- Keynote on Sub-Minimum Wage Policy & Section 14(c) Phaseout
- Job Development Mastery: Customized Discovery for Complex Needs
- Employer Showcase: How Oklahoma Businesses Succeed with Inclusion
- CESP™ Exam Prep and Ethics Session for Professional CEUs
Our Testimonials
Life-Changing Results, Straight from Oklahomans
Hearing directly from individuals, employment specialists, and partner organizations.
"OK-APSE's training and conferences provided our agency with the exact tools needed to phase out sub-minimum wage workshops into 100% competitive integrated community placements."
Sarah L.
Supported Employment Director, Oklahoma City
"Earning my CESP™ credential elevated my career and credibility with local business leaders. Oklahoma APSE provides the warmest, most knowledgeable community of practice."
Gabriel Renna
CESP™ Certified Employment Consultant, Tulsa
"Having a real job with real pay changed my life. I am treated with respect by my coworkers and can support myself. Oklahoma APSE fights for people like me every single day."
Samira Debora
Self-Advocate & Healthcare Facility Staff, Norman