Welcome Valerie Osgood-Sutton to the Innovation Lab

Valerie is our new CareerAdvance® Research Coordinator with the Innovation Lab at CAP.  I have recently joined the Innovation Lab as the new CareerAdvance® Research Coordinator. It has been a slight career change for me as I spent the previous two and a half years as a teacher in an Early Head Start classroom. However [...]

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Guest Blog: CAP’s Alumni Impact Project

As part of a new project at CAP, each month we will be featuring a guest blogger from across the agency.  Diane Eason-Contreras, Senior Client Research Associate, is our fifth blogger. CAP has a long history of providing early childhood services to low-income families in the Tulsa area. In an effort to continuously improve services to children [...]

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Social Connections Through Time Travel

Over the past few weeks, I have been reading about social networks and how our social networks impact our lives.  Specifically I have been looking into how social networks can be used to create social and economic change in individual families.  The research has made me think differently about how I am connected to people, [...]

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“We are small, but we can do big things.”

   Today’s Tulsa World included a great article about the Global Gardens summer program at Rosa Parks Elementary School.  For those who don’t know Global Gardens uses gardening and hands-on science to empower low-income kids and communities.  Here in Tulsa it has done just that!  The program at Rosa Parks faced the challenge of providing meals to participants after the [...]

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Inspiration in an unlikely place

This past week I attended the Southwest Regional Leadership Forum hosted by the Sarkey’s Foundation in Norman, OK. I honestly didn’t expect to come back completely re-energized and inspired to take on the world… but I did. One thing I’ve learned recently from the book Made to Stick by the Dan Heath and Chip Heath [...]

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Heavy Lifting = Heavy Thinking

Miller-McCune News reports on a new study that found people think more carefully when they carry heavier objects: In another test, participants were asked to rate a series of arguments in favor of building a controversial subway system. Once again, those carrying the heavier clipboard seem to have thought through the issue more thoroughly: They [...]

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Our success stories

It’s really easy these days to get caught up in the bad news. Seems like every time I refresh my multiple news sources, there’s some new catastrophic news event – more economic disasters, planes crashing losing many beloveds, unstable government, etc. You know the drill. When I was little, my grandpa told me about an [...]

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