Crossover Community Impact

Crossover Community Impact 940 E. 36th St. North | Tulsa, Oklahoma | 74106

2011

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2013

Crossover Community Impact was incorporated

IMPACT Kids began

Crossover Preparatory Academy welcomed its founding class

2014

Crossover Health Services opens

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2013

StreetLeader Program started

2015

Crossover Development Company renovated and built its first homes

2012

Crossover Sports Association commenced

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Youth Sports/ Youth Development

Education

Restoring Our Community

Housing

Healthcare

Economic Development

EST. 2011

RESTORING OUR COMMUNITY North Tulsa was once a thriving community that was hailed as prosperous and inspiring, but today, it is best described as deserted. It is depleted of economic resources and has become a place that people get out of as soon as possible. In 2011, Crossover Bible Church started Crossover Community Impact (CCI) to be a force for restoration in north Tulsa! We love our community and believe that God has called us to be a part of helping north Tulsa thrive again.

CCI is a Christian 501(c)(3) organization committed to restoring the north Tulsa community through reconciliation, love and justice. We hope to see people reconciled to both God and others (reconciliation), we seek to love our neighbor as we love ourselves (relocation), and we use our resources for the sake of building up the community and the people within it (redistribution). We want to be an agent of change meeting needs in such a way that the community is restored and made whole, with its residents taking pride in our community and being committed to its future.

We apply a comprehensive approach to make an IMPACT in Youth Sports/ Leadership Development, Education, Housing, Healthcare, and Economic Development, while focusing on a targeted geographic area. As gains are made in our target area around the Hawthorne Elementary School Neighborhood, our hope is that there will be a ripple effect into more north Tulsa neighborhoods until the entire community is restored.

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EST. 2012

CROSSOVER C R O S S OVE R S PORTS AS S OCI ATION Since 2012, CCI has been addressing the need for positive extracurricular activities and built upon a strength of the community through the Crossover Sports Association (CSA). CSA is a championship caliber youth sports athletic and character development program that includes football, cheer, basketball, baseball, and track for kids in all elementary grade levels.

Each of these sports has won championships, but more importantly Crossover has been able to leverage extra-curricular activities creating opportunities for excellence on the field, in the classroom, and in life, truly developing “student-athletes.”

By offering a plethora of sports, we currently offer more athletic development opportunities than most organizations in our community. CSA exists to provide affordable quality athletic programming as well as mentoring relationships to children in north Tulsa. Our goal is to raise up young people who will not only achieve great things athletically, but who will also strive for excellence academically while developing a servant’s heart for our community.

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EST. 2013

C ROSSOV ER KIDS PROGRAM The Crossover Kids (Formerly known as IMPACT Kids) After School and Summer Day Camp was created to address the critical educational needs of north Tulsa children by improving the academic and non-academic achievement of students. We work to harness the students’ natural curiosity through hands-on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) enrichment designed to encourage problem-solving, critical thinking and team building. Each day also includes individualized homework assistance, exercise and sports, healthy snacks and a devoted time for reflecting on positive character traits by our StreetLeaders.

The primary objectives of the program are to increase the proficiency of students in the vital subjects of math and reading, to foster non-academic skills like persistence, and to create a supportive and nurturing environment for the students.

The Crossover Kids Program partners with Hawthorne Elementary School, the only non-failing neighborhood school in north Tulsa, to encourage academic excellence. The student-athletes in the Crossover Sports Association also participate in the program. CCI was the “2016 Tulsa Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Partners in Education Champions Award” Recipient for this program.

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STREETL EADER PROGRAM Since 2013, CCI has responded to the need for youth employment opportunities by hiring between 10 and 17 north Tulsa teens, called StreetLeaders, per semester as part-time employees in the Crossover Kids Program. The StreetLeaders work as counselors, tutors and mentors for our elementary age students.

Founded by Urban Promise nearly 30 years ago in Camden, New Jersey, the StreetLeader Program was created to provide teens from at-risk or under-resourced communities with real world job experience. The heart of the StreetLeader Program is to challenge teens to use their natural influence to make positive changes in their lives, in the lives of the Crossover Kids and in our community.

Another element of the StreetLeader Program is addressing the joblessness rate of AfricanAmerican teens and the impact this joblessness has on the future. Research shows a direct correlation between joblessness as a youth and an inability to stay in the workforce, to develop the skills necessary to be gainfully employed, and to have mental health concerns as adults.

In the last five years of graduating seniors, 100% of our StreetLeaders have graduated from high school, met high academic standards, attended coaching sessions, passed frequent performance reviews and maintained excellent school and college prep program attendance.

Teens are encouraged to avoid negative influences and focus on their academic and professional future through the StreetLeader Program.

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EST. 2014

CROSSOVER HEALTH SERVICES In 2010, according to the University of Oklahoma College of Public Health, north Tulsa residents had an average life expectancy 14 years shorter than their south Tulsa neighbors. Combined, North, East, & West Tulsa account for 40% of Tulsa’s population, but only 4% of Tulsa’s clinicians practice in one of those areas. Crossover Health Services (CHS) has been addressing the lack of access to quality health care in our community since 2014 by starting a full family medical practice, staffed by many doctors and nurses that live in the community. CHS provides each of its 4400 patients with the best in general care for men and women, pre-natal, and pediatric care, with plans to include behavioral health.

Through a close relationship with the In His Image Christian Medical Residency Program, we offer health care concerned with our patients’ physical and spiritual needs. The clinic accepts private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid and offers a low flat fee to patients without insurance.

CHS is working to eradicate healthcare disparities and was the “2018 Hospitality House of Tulsa- Caring Award for Healthcare Winner.” Recent studies by the University of Oklahoma show that life expectancy for north Tulsa residents has seen significant improvement in recent years due to the addition of clinics like CHS.

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EST. 2015

CROSSOVER DEVELOPMENT COMPANY Since 2015, Crossover Development Company (CDC) has revitalized housing in the Hawthorne Neighborhood by purchasing and remodeling vacant houses and building new homes. CDC helps families in our community own their own home as well as addresses the need for homes for families who wish to return or relocate to our community.

CDC utilizes housing projects to create construction jobs for men in our community. This is particularly important because only 3.9% of construction workers in the City of Tulsa are black, and 3.5% of the carpenters are black even though 14.9% of the City of Tulsa’s population is black.

The problems of overall lower employment rates and lack of jobs in north Tulsa compound with even fewer opportunities for men with felonies. Moreover, lower educational attainment in north Tulsa makes construction jobs more important.

In order to equip individuals for the workforce, CDC offers programs to enhance both soft and hard job skills alike. The employees are exposed to the Jobs for Life Program for professionalism training. CDC also utilizes the NCCER carpentry educational curriculum to train its construction employees. NCCER carpentry certification is a nationally recognized certification that employees can use to demonstrate their carpentry skills in order to obtain a livable wage, both now and in the future.

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EST. 2017

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CROSSOVER PREPARATORY ACADEMY AND CROSSOVER SCHOLARSHIP FUND According to the 2017 National Center for Education Statistics, African-American males have the lowest four-year college graduation rate in the country. Achieving a bachelor’s degree is one of the strongest predictors of economic stability and currently in our community only 15.3% of residents hold a bachelor’s or advanced college degree. Crossover Prep (CPA) is an all boy, 6th-12th grade private school that started in 2017. In its second year, CPA was the TPS Middle School Champion in football and the “Choice Matters Private School of the Year.”

CPA is focused on developing educated, godly young men who love north Tulsa. Although all of our efforts are vital to the transformation of north Tulsa, we recognize that if our school can successfully create a pipeline of godly leaders who return to north Tulsa after they complete college, our community will never be the same. Crossover Prep has been modeled after St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark, NJ which sends 98% of its graduates to college with 87% of them completing college.

Once Crossover Prep has a facility, CCI will begin Crossover Prep for young women with the same goals and intentions for transformation.

The Crossover Scholarship Fund (CSF) is a scholarship granting organization that provides scholarships to students at Crossover Prep through the Oklahoma Equal Opportunity Education Scholarship Act. This act gives state tax credits to donors enabling Crossover Prep students to receive a quality, private Christian college preparatory education that is not dependent upon their parents’ ability to afford this education.

www.crossoverscholarshipfund.org

www.crossoverprep.org

Our Mission “Crossover Community Impact, Inc. (CCI), is a Christian organization committed to restoring our community through reconciliation, love and justice.”

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Our Vision

“Our vision to ‘Restore Our Community’ will be fulfilled when north Tulsa is CROSSOVER a community full of healthy individuals, faithful families, CROSSOVER peaceful neighborhoods, and thriving institutions.”

940 E. 36th St. North | Tulsa, Oklahoma | 74106 918-856-5377 | www.crossoverimpact.org | info@crossoverimpact.org C

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