Tulsa Launches Survey To Understand Impact Of COVID-19 On Minorities
The City of Tulsa is launching a new survey to try to understand how COVID-19 is affecting minorities.
The city said the new community impact survey will help it address inequities caused by the pandemic. Leticia Calvillo with the City of Tulsa said given the data on COVID-19, participation is crucial. They offer perspectives that only, for example, an immigrant could provide that someone else might not be able to provide, Calvillo said.
This past February, the Oklahoma Department of Health reported that whites made up 66 percent of the people who took the first 370,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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New Initiative Helps Immigrants Find Dream Careers In Tulsa
Flourish Tulsa is part of the New Tulsans Initiative.
The new program focuses on helping immigrants and refugees find jobs in the fields they studied in their native country.
The project creates career pathway guides for immigrants and trains employers on increasing immigrant recruitment.
Leticia Calvillo with the City of Tulsa said these resources can be crucial for those who come to Tulsa with a formal education. We ve often seen that immigrants are told that they have to start from zero,” Calvillo said. “That their education isn t valid here in the U.S., which is not true.”
Zapata went back to school, earning a master’s degree in organizational dynamics and a Ph.D in human development and family science from universities in Oklahoma. “One of the things that happens as an immigrant is you often do not know what you do not know,” she says. The systems in the U.S. may be very different from a similar system in an immigrant’s country of origin. Starting to figure out how to navigate the systems such as health, education and finance may be a challenge, on top of possibly having a language or other barrier.
“People who grew up here, it may be different, because maybe your parents knew about it. As an immigrant, you don’t have that,” she says.