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Health

OU-Tulsa Community Medicine Receives Part of a $16M Grant

The University of Oklahoma will receive a federal grant of $16M over four years, which will go to efforts on OU-Tulsa’s campus.

• Tribal Tribute: The funding is designated to recruit, retain, and graduate medical students from Tribal, rural and medically underserved communities in Oklahoma. The project also supports financial need through scholarships for students from Tribal, rural, and medically underserved communities to attend medical school at OU.

• How it Works: One of the unique aspects of the grant is that it focuses on teaching medical students the importance of primary care and its impact on the health of all Oklahomans, particularly those in rural locations. Program leaders hope the funding will eventually lead to overall growth in Oklahoma’s primary care workforce.

Read more about what will be done with the grant for OU-Tulsa students HERE.

Nonprofit Highlight

Tulsa Girls Home is Expanding Services With Move From Sapulpa to Jenks

Tulsa Girls Home is getting a new house for the holidays with a move that will make room for more teens.

• Room to Grow: Tulsa Girls Home is a 2.5 year old nonprofit designed to help teen girls in the foster care system who are in need of care, hope and shelter. They’ve out grown their Sapulpa home and found a larger house in Jenks that is currently being remodeled by generous business donors.

• Focused But Not Finished: The home has a large building in the back that will be demolished to make way for townhome housing for the older girls transitioning out of the system and into adulthood. The Tulsa Girls’ Home remodel has been fully funded but the organization is still working to raise the remaining $300,000 to pay off the mortgage.

Those interested in learning more about the Tulsa Girls' Home or helping to sponsor the girls can visit their website HERE. 

Community

Tulsa Chamber Announced Record Year for Tourism and Entrepreneurship

Tulsa Chamber of Commerce Leaders announced some impressive numbers that show Tulsa is seeing a historic growth in tourism.

• The Numbers Are In: Before a Cain’s Ballroom crowd of more than 200 people, the Tulsa Regional Chamber hosted a 2022-23 fiscal year celebration announcing 201,820 booked hotel room nights and a $317.2M total tourism economic impact. Those numbers shattered Tulsa Regional Tourism’s goal of $203.5M.

• We CAN All Get Along: Chamber leaders credit the great Route 66, Tulsa Expo Square, Gathering Place and good cooperation with the City for the success. Mayor G.T. Bynum agreed. “We are working together as a region to be the best city we can … when we are doing that, we see that it is incredibly powerful.”

Read more about Tulsa’s Tourism and subsequent new business growth HERE.

Community

Demolition Begins on Site For New Family Safety Center in Tulsa

Another groundbreaking moment is in the books on more growth in Tulsa. This time it’s a Family Safety Center.

• Dozens of Resources, One Roof: Tulsa’s Family Safety Center will be located at 31st and Sheridan where two buildings are being demolished for the site. The center will offer help with emergency protective orders, legal advice, shelter referrals, a children’s play area, chaplain services and more for people who find themselves in domestic violence situations.

• Help is on the Way: The current Family Safety Center is housed underneath the Tulsa Police Department with about 13,000sf. The new center will be about 5 times larger and will allow for services to be provided for up to 30,000 domestic violence survivors. Construction on the $29M project will start in 24 months and will take 15 months to complete.

Watch a video and learn more about Family Safety Services in Tulsa HERE.

Development

Kirkpatrick Heights Greenwood Master Plan Receives National Recognition

The Kirkpatrick Heights Greenwood Master Plan received the American Planning Association’s 2023 National Planning Award for Advancing Diversity and Social Change.

• Plans and Promises: The proposed plan for the 56 acres of publicly owned land in Tulsa’s Greenwood District is called Our Legacy, Our Community for a reason. It was one of only four projects nationally recognized by the American Planning Association for demonstrating exemplary planning work in communities across the country.

• Community Input On Point: The award cited good community input and outreach as another reason for the honor. The City of Tulsa has held several community input meetings on the plan that includes 950 residential units, nearly 11 acres of open space, civic space, retail and office uses, and grocery and fresh food opportunities.

See more details about the Kirkpatrick Heights Master Plan HERE.

In other news

• 👨🏻‍🎨 Calling All Designers: The City of Tulsa is seeking input on what is being built in Tulsa and you can weigh in via its new design input website.

• 🚙 Buckle Up: It’s time to go off roading in Disney Oklahoma for a good cause that includes Christmas gifts.

• 📝 A Poet Who Knows It: An Oklahoma teen gets a nod from the White House as Jill Biden honored poets through a National poetry program.

• 🦅 Like a Hawk: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, Check out this video of a regal hawk resting and looking over Tulsa.

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