The Statewide Training Regional Support, STARS, program is a centralized training system for Oklahoma. Maintained at the Tolbert Center in the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, STARS is supported primarily with funds from the Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Services. The Oklahoma State Department of Human Services, Developmental Disabilities Services Division, provides secondary funding.

STARS, developed in 1992, supported staff of SoonerStart, Oklahoma’s early intervention program mandated by the Individual’s with Disabilities Education Act. Since that time, STARS has grown to include parents and other programs such as public schools, Head Start, local child care providers, Parents as Teachers, Even Start, other Health Department programs, and Department of Human Services – Developmental Disabilities Services Division (DDSD).

The mission of STARS is to support the provision of individualized, comprehensive, multidisciplinary, family-centered, community-based programs and services for people with disabilities through a coordinated training system.

Anyone interested in providing input for the STARS 2010 training agenda, please complete the annual needs survey by clicking here.

If you have questions or concerns, contact STARS by email at stars@ouhsc.edu or by calling Judith Grove at 405-271-1836.

STARS Goals

STARS Beliefs about Personnel Development

STARS Training Philosophy

Criteria for STARS Training Workshops