Oklahoma's Community Action Agencies continued celebrating 50 years of helping people and changing lives with posters highlighting successful agency services displayed in the State Capitol rotunda. Legislators took time during the hectic final week of the legislative session to join Community Action staffers for lunch and and an opportunity to learn more about the positive outcomes resulting from agency services.

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KI BOIS Community Action Foundation staff members are providing outreach and case management for low-income homeless veterans through the Supportive Services for Veterans Families program. Tammy Randozza oversees the program that enables families to get access to a full range of community benefits to maintain stable housing.

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Community Development Support Association is administering the Adult and Dislocated Workers Program to help residents in a 17 county area. Diedra Williamson oversees the program that helps eligible residents who have been laid off from their jobs, are running out of unemployment benefits, or need to upgrade their job skills to get training needed to obtain jobs paying decent salaries.

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