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Supporters of Families with Sickle Cell Disease (Supporters), Inc., is a non-profit organization that services as a community service agency assisting individuals and families living with sickle cell and thalassemia disease and trait in Oklahoma. The organization was founded in Tulsa in 2007, with the initial goal of supporting the Oklahoma Chapter of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America and the families they served.  As a result of state budget cuts, the Association lost funding in 2009, and dissolved.  Supporters became the new center of contact and community service provision for the more than 40,000 Oklahomans with sickle cell trait and over 1,300 Oklahoma families living with Sickle Cell and Thalassemia disease across our great state.  

The mission of Supporter's is to improve the quality of life for individuals living with sickle cell and thalassemia,  children and adults, and their families within the State of Oklahoma, through systematic changes in patient care, policy, education, advocacy, family support and awareness.