History of WovenLife

On September 24, 1925, the Oklahoma Society for Crippled Children was formed. Earle F. Bridges, Chairman of the Crippled Children’s Committee of the Oklahoma City Rotary Club became the first president of the organization.
In 1984, the Oklahoma Easter Seal Agency was officially incorporated and a few years later, the name was officially changed to the Oklahoma Easter Seal Society.
In 2002, the Oklahoma Society for Crippled Children merged with the Oklahoma Easter Seal Society, and the surviving corporation became known as Easter Seals Oklahoma, Inc.
Since 1925, the organization has carried out many programs benefiting thousands of children and adults with disabilities. Services over the years have included early intervention vision, hearing, and scoliosis screening services for school children. Historical services have also included physical therapy and evaluations, reading tutoring, development screenings, ADHD interventions, clinics, and more; Many today may remember benefiting from those programs.

On August 31, 2017, the organization disaffiliated from the Easter Seals brand and assumed the new name of WovenLife, Inc. with an enhanced mission of empowering people of all ages and abilities to find hope and independence through compassionate care, education, and support. This change allows WovenLife to focus solely on the local needs of our community while ensuring all of the money we raise stays here locally.

What is WovenLife?

WovenLife refers to the diversity of those who use our services, the diversity of the services themselves, and the interesting ways in which they overlap. Young and old, abled and differently-abled, we are where their paths cross.
The name speaks to the sophistication of our care, as well as the complexity of the lives of those we are working with.
When so many people with different backgrounds and different futures all come together and you start to zoom out, you see a bigger picture – something beautiful, akin to a woven tapestry