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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear Oklahoma Education Human Resources leader:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We need your help in reaching your school’s faculty and staff veterans to participate in a survey on access to health services in Oklahoma.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Governor Mary Fallin has empaneled a state-wide Task Force of Veterans health care professionals, Veterans advocates and state legislators to assess the condition of health care access for the state's 350,000
veterans. This Task Force may recommend Oklahoma and federal policy changes based on the survey participants’ responses. We want our veterans to have the best access and quality of services offered in any state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Governor Fallin announced the survey to Oklahoma on June 6, 2017.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">To guide our activities, the Task Force is seeking your help in distributing information about the survey to your faculty and staff who are veterans to get input on their experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The “Take 10” survey can be found online at https://uco.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6JWUQOCaJr8OZ37<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Veterans may also take the survey on a mobile phone by scanning the Take 10 QR Code attached to this email.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Participation is entirely voluntary. We will only use the summary data from all of the collected surveys to guide our activities in adjusting policies or programs. Therefore, any survey answers provided
by your faculty and staff veterans will be anonymous, and no one will know who they are. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If you would like to know more about the survey, you can call the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs at 405-523-4000. Or you may call me, Dr. Mark Kinders at the University of Central Oklahoma, at 405-974-5562.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This survey project has been approved by the University of Central Oklahoma Institutional Review Board (#17087). You may contact the UCO Office of Research Compliance at 405-974-5497.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Task Force Co-Chairs: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Major General (Retired) Myles Deering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Executive Director,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dr. Mark Kinders, Ed. D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Vice President for Public Affairs,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">University of Central Oklahoma<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">U.S. Marine Corps, 1968-72<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Mark Kinders, Ed.D. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Vice President for Public Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">University of Central Oklahoma<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">304 Old North<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">100 North University Drive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Edmond, OK 73034<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">405-974-5562 (Office)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">918-207-6738 (Cell)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Horace Mann: <i>Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
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