Letter From Mary
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
– HELEN KELLER
As I reflect on 2023, I continue to be amazed at what is accomplished when so many community members and partners link arms for a common goal. 2023 marked another year of incredible growth and accomplishment for A New Leaf and those we serve. Among the highlights is our fourth straight year of receiving 100% on our annual QA audit from the State of Oklahoma. This rigorous assessment evaluates the care we give our clients on 211 different components.
Above all, our Core Value of being Client Centered is the epicenter from which all decisions are made. Other accomplishments include our first cohort of the Hardesty Transition Academy students completing their first year in the program and beginning internships. The progress these young adults have made in their first year is truly remarkable! Many of our Workforce Development clients achieved a new “level” of work in partnership with area businesses.
On the Residential Services front, our clients continue to grow in their own identities, building friendships and self-sufficiency. While we knew we would achieve remarkable metrics through The Village, watching the residents blossom in this new chapter of their lives has been most rewarding. Each day there are new stories of discovery, happiness and success from clients and staff. Seeing the impact The Village has on the residents who live here further validates the need to expand the capacity of these resources.
In 2023, we quietly began planning for Phase 2 of The Village. Due to tremendous community support, we anticipate breaking ground on this expansion later this year. The outpouring of support from YOU, in all aspects of our mission, is the lifeblood of our organization. Together, we have and will continue to accomplish so much for these incredibly deserving Oklahomans.
Mary C. Ogle, Chief Executive Officer
2023 Year in Review
Operating Budget
Net Assets Revenue
James Langster
Board of Directors
ONE Gas, Inc. Vice President, Information Technology
ANL — Board Chairman
Brian Vogt
Williams Energy Resources Director, New Energy Ventures
ANL Board Treasurer
Sara Momper
Helmerich & Payne Chief Accounting Officer & Vice President
ANL — Board Secretary
Joshua Cole Security Bank
CFA/Vice President, Commercial Lending
ANL — Past Chairman
Dave Cleveland Corporate Performance Group Partner
ANL — Past Chairman
Rita Garrison Arvest Bank
Senior Vice President, Marketing Manager
Angela Byers
Byers Creative, Inc. Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner
Scott Sterbens
QuikTrip Corporation
Tulsa Division Manager
Tim Sullivan GableGotwals Shareholder
Phillip Bell
Financial Planning Resources Partner & President
Dr. Leslie Clark
Tulsa Tech Owasso Director, Campus
Lisa Korner
BLISS Capital Investments, LLC
Mark Moore
Luke Strawn FirsTitle Chief Executive Officer
Greg Lusardi ONEOK
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development
Dana Baldwin
BOK Financial
Senior Vice President & Senior Trust Advisor
Kimberly Grayson Keller Williams Realtor
Dan Burnstein
Omni Air Transport President
Servant Team
Mary Ogle Chief Executive Officer
Maranda Figueroa Chief Development Officer
Tammie Lewis Chief Programs Officer
Kate Schlichter Chief Administration Officer
Nicki Soma Chief Financial Officer
Workforce Development
Designed to provide people with developmental disabilities and Autism (I/DD) life skills, marketable job training and employment
151 Clients Served
$629,110 in Client Wages Paid
Approximately 90% of people with I/DD in the community are unemployed. Most do not have family support and without employment often live a life of isolation and low productivity.
2023 Community Partners
Broken Arrow
History Museum
Akin’s Natural Foods
Broken Arrow
Military Museum
Broken Arrow Senior Center
Clarehouse
Community of Christ Church
Feeding Tulsa’s Pets of the Homeless
First Bank of Owasso
First Baptist Church Tulsa South Caring Center
Food on the Move — Monroe, TCC and Chamberlain Park
Global Gardens
Green Country
Veterinarian Clinic
Meals on Wheels
Northeastern State University
Party Pro
Security Bank
Shining Honor at Rose Hill Cemetery
The Bridges Mercantile
The Brokerage Tulsa
The Mission Center in Owasso
Tulsa County Parks
The Shining Honor Project
A New Leaf is honored to partner with The Shining Honor Project. The Shining Honor Project enriches the lives of adults with developmental challenges, while honoring our nation’s service men and women.
A New Leaf clients take meticulous care to clean and maintain veterans’ headstones. This ongoing effort allows our clients to learn valuable life skills while honoring those who served our country. Through this meaningful engagement, our clients find purpose and fulfillment in their work.
Positive Behavior Support Program
Provides all staff and clients with tools and coping techniques to prevent behavior challenges
256 Clients Served
Tulsa, Owasso, Broken Arrow, Muskogee, Coweta, and Bartlesville
Over 80% of A New Leaf clients have a mental health condition in addition to their developmental disability. These conditions can present behavior challenges that become barriers to independent living and employment.
400 Hours
Invested In Staff Training
ANL is the only workforce agency with in-house behavior support and behavior support trainings in Oklahoma.
The co-existence of a developmental disability and mental health condition can have serious effects on a person’s daily function by interfering with employment and recreational activities, jeopardizing residential placement, and disrupting family and peer relationships.
Autism Works
Empowering students with autism in a community-based workforce development program
209 Students Served
1 in 36 people have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Adults with ASD have an unemployment rate of 90%.
A New Leaf’s Autism Works program was implemented as an early intervention solution.
Autism Works is a community-based pre-vocational program for students in upper-elementary, middle and high school with ASD and their neurotypical peers.
A New Leaf’s Autism Works Program is assisting students in making the transition to adulthood, higher education, and/or optimum employment by teaching social skills in a classroom setting and exposing them to the community and work experience through Community Enrichment Days.
Hardesty Transition Academy
Providing young adults with I/DD the training and skills necessary to work and live on their own with support
Second Cohort of 11 Students JOINED THE PROGRAM
A New Leaf’s Hardesty Transition Academy (TA) is Oklahoma’s premier educational and workforce pathway for young adults with I/DD.
• Over 41,000 individuals in the Tulsa metro area have an I/DD
• Approximately 90% are unemployed
• 74% live with their families their entire lives
People with I/DD deserve the opportunity to fulfill their potential and contribute to society. Traditional college or employment routes don’t meet people with I/DD where they are in life. A New Leaf realized there needs to be an alternative path to help make the transition from high school to adulthood.
Upon high school graduation, students with I/DD may attend A New Leaf’s Hardesty Transition Academy. The Academy is a twoyear college-style program which provides
job training and placement as well as skills necessary for independent living. The curriculum is designed to meet the needs of the students. After students graduate from the Academy, the goal is for them to live independently and secure a job with a competitive wage.
The first cohort of students at the Transition Academy are halfway through their second year now experiencing paid internships and moving toward transition to independent living and employment after graduation, adding essential workers to our community’s starved workforce. The second cohort of 11 students joined the program in February and are now just beginning their second year.
Jake is a student in cohort 1 and began an internship at Bill Knight Ford. He’s excelled in their accounting department and has been offered full-time employment after his internship has been completed.
“When (he) says I’m doing good it makes me feel happy and accomplished and makes me feel like a hero for the company.”
— JAKE
Residential Program
Serving people with I/DD in independent living settings throughout the community, giving them dignity and choices
107 Clients Served
74% of people with I/DD never live outside their family home
Meeting Clients
Where They Are
• Independent Living
• Support for Clients Living with Family
• Up to 24 Hour Support
Assist With:
• Meal Prep
• Medication/Hygiene
• Housekeeping
• Transportation/Grocery Shopping
• Remote Support
A New Leaf’s Residential Program provides housing solutions and support for as many individuals with I/DD as possible. Individuals are provided with the opportunity to maintain their dignity, even when they require additional support to accomplish tasks. By offering this level of support, the program promotes a sense of empowerment and encourages individuals to strive for their goals, without sacrificing their sense of self and dignity.
Success Story
Madison came to A New Leaf through the Workforce Development Program and soon joined our residential program by moving into our female group home.
Madison was extremely shy and timid when she first started, not speaking or making eye contact with staff or coworkers. Once she moved into the group home, Madison became more and more social and outgoing, voicing her needs and her wants. Now Madison is a 'social butterfly' who is really spreading her wings.
Thank You, 2023 Investors
Kathy S Craft Foundation, Sanford & Irene Burnstein Family Foundation, The J E & L E Mabee Foundation, Inc.
Carey Larkin, Genave K Rogers Charitable Trust, Hardesty Family Foundation, Morningcrest Foundation, The Fulton & Susie Collins Foundation
Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation, Bank Of Oklahoma, Gary & Donna Dundee, Sarah & John Graves Family Trust Fund, The William K Warren Foundation, Tim & Kelly Heuback, Xan Williams
Caron & Shawn Lawhorn, Cherokee Nation Business, Chuck & Debra Kelley, Flint Family Foundation, Chris & Paige Sutherland, Clay & Leanne Gaspar, James & Michelle Kubala, Jill & Bob Thomas, John & Alene Davis, Michael & Vicky Kindschi, ONE Gas, ONEOK Foundation, Pediatric Health Care Fund, QuikTrip, Ruth Nelson Family Foundation
AEP PSO, Aristocrat Gaming Cares, Arvest Foundation, Bill & Donna Ramsey, Brian & Sarah Vogt, Carl C & Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation, Carole Jemison, Charles & Laurie Campbell, Charles & Peggy Stephenson Family Foundation, Dan Burnstein, David & Cassie Temple Foundation, Devon Energy Corporation, Donna Swank, E L & Thelma Gaylord Foundation, Earl & Pat Schott, Fredric Elliot Russell, Fugitt Foundation, Garver, Helmerich & Payne, Ketchum Charitable Foundation, Kirschner Trusts, Mark & Pattye Moore, McGill Foundation, Mike & Leslie Moore, Robert Glenn Rapp Foundation, Rotary Club of Tulsa, Sam Viersen Foundation,
Sarkeys Foundation, Stuart Family Foundation, The Anait Foundation, The Mervin Bovaird Foundation, The Sharna & Irvin Frank Foundation, Williams Companies
Betty Sanders, Bill & Judy Vogle, Canada Company, CanServ, Carol Bush, Case & Elfreda Zandbergen Private Foundation, Financial Planning Resources, Founders Of Doctors’ Hospital, Frank Family Foundation Fund, Goatcher Foundation, Good Neighbor Fund Of Spirit AeroSystems, Harriet Bohanan, Jason & Joely Flegler, Jennifer & Derek Smith, Jerry & Lucille Rutherford, Jess L & Miriam B Stevens Foundation, John & Mary Wofford, Keith D Simms, Kristie & John W Gibson, Laura Oskey, LD Kerns Contractors, Lisa Korner, Meredith Howard, Pathway Services, S+K Multifamily Homes, Security Bank, Thomas & Bernadette Adelson, Titan Title & Closing, LLC., V C & Jerry Garrett, West Construction
AAON, Amy Fitzgerald, Amy Tanner, Andre & Anna Siegenthaler, Angela Byers, Annette & Larry Sparks, Arvest Bank, AVB Bank, Becky Cavalli, Bernard & Marcy Robinowitz Family Fund, Best Window Company, Big Lots Foundation, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma, Blue Sky Bank, Brooke Cassidy, Cardinal Health, Case & Associates Properties, Inc., Centre Technologies, Inc., Charles & Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, Charlsey Wolfe, Chart Industries, Christy Thomas, Church Of The Madalene, Cleveherd Charitable Foundation, Clifford & Crystal Allison, Clyde & Anita Becker Foundation, CommunityCare, Country Financial — Mark Morley, Dan Ashbaugh & Ashley Corker, Dave & Lisa Keylor, David & Shirley Cleveland, Donna Nigh Foundation, Edna & Ken Hird, Employees Federal Credit Union, Epsilon Sigma Alpha Sorority, Erin & Robert Butler, First Bank Of Owasso, Gateway First Bank, Great Southern Bank, Greg Lusardi, Greg Moore, HUB International Mid-America, Ina & Leland Gibson, James & Sharla Langster, James (Skip) & Carol Nichols, Jay Ziegler, Jeff Galvin, Jennifer Peterson, Jenny & Ken Sallee, Jenny Herman, Jessica Reiss, Joey Uphold, John Schemmer, Joshua Cole, Julie & Dusty Weatherly, Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation, Kayla & Gary Sharp, Kenley & Brooke McQueen, Kimberly Frank, Kristine Sexter, Kristofer & Callie Kalvig, Lance Poplin, Leadline Marketing, Lighthouse Electric LLC, Logic Heat & Air, Luke & Paige Strawn, M&M Lumber, Marge & John Gaberino, Merkel Family Foundation, Michael & Dorothy Tramontana, Momentum Learning Center, Narrate Design, Neal & Lora Buck, Netlink Solutions, Nicole Karn, Omni Air International, Osage Casino, Paragon Films For Christ Charitable Trust, Pearson Creek Capital Management LLC, Pete & Sarah Edwards, Phil Richards, Phillip Bell, Prosperity Bank, Quality First Pharmacy, Rebekah & Roy Wood, Robert & Esther Endres, Rotary Club Of Broken Arrow, Route 66 Engineering, Russell & Elizabeth Ray, Sandra Shay, Sandra Wood, Sara Momper, Scott & Kimberly Case, Scott & Savannah Sterbens, Seidle Family Foundation, Shannon Kelly, Spectrum Behavioral Heath Group Tulsa, Sunrise Tulsa Rotary Foundation Inc., Sunstate Equipment Co., LLC, Susan & Kent Garrett, The Persimmon Group, Tracy Wofford, Tripp Schott, Tulsa Community Foundation, Tulsa Herb Society, Tulsa Home Shows, Tulsa Tube Bending, Wallace Engineering, Walter & Rhona Allen Charitable Gift Fund, Walter P Moore, Wayne & Kara Schatz, William S & Ann Atherton Foundation, Zach Hess
