Our Mission
Kids’ Chance of Oklahoma, Inc. was established in 2016 to assist children of injured Oklahoma workers. to provide post-secondary and career tech school scholarships to the children of Oklahoma workers who have been seriously or fatally injured in a workplace accident. The children of these workers often lose opportunities for secondary education.
Kids’ Chance of Oklahoma History
Kids’ Chance of Oklahoma was founded in 2018. The founding members were Wade Christensen, Jason Clark, Rob Manchester, Brandon Burton and Don Horton. The Board grew and began fundraising. Since then the organization has distributed over $190,000 in college scholarships.
Kids’ Chance of Oklahoma’s mission is to make a significant difference in the lives of all Oklahoma children affected by a parent’s workplace injury or death, by helping them pursue and achieve their educational goals.
History of Kids’ Chance
The first Kids’ Chance organization was founded in 1988 by workers compensation attorney Robert Clyatt in Valdosta, Georgia. He developed the initiative after having been a direct witness to the dramatic effect that workplace injuries and fatalities can have on families, specifically the hardships it causes the pursuit of higher education for the children of the injured. After incorporating the inaugural Kids’ Chance group in Georgia, the organization began reaching out to other states to further expand the cause, and now 47 states in the nation have independent Kids’ Chance organizations.