A New Leaf Vocational Programs

Approx. 29,000 people in the eastern Oklahoma have developmental disabilities, and 85% are unemployed. A New Leaf’s vocational program is designed to provide individuals with I/DD life skills, marketable job training, horticultural therapy, and community-based vocational training. Our individualized approach allows clients the opportunity to learn work skills, have a safe work environment, earn a wage, develop their own peer groups, and be productive members of society.

Welcome Wednesday Family Tours

A New Leaf invites you to tour our vocational center on the first Wednesday of every month from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. There is no need to sign up – just show up!

Our vocational headquarters address is 2306 South 1st Place, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma 74012.

Questions or to sign up for one of these programs contact:

Jessica Heimdale, Client Resource Case Manager at Jessica.Heimdale@anewleaf.org or call 918-451-1491 ext 122.

Are you or someone you know interested in becoming a vocational client at A New Leaf?

Click here to view the steps to apply!

Autism Works

Autism Works is a community-based vocational program for youth in upper-elementary, middle and high school with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and their neurotypical peers. The program assists youth 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 at a young age.

Program participants will benefit from the program in the following ways: increased confidence and independence, improvements in communication, language, and social skills, improvement in job skills such as learning new things, being patient, task management, respect, and positive interaction with coworkers.

For more information about Autism Works, please email us at autism@anewleaf.org.

Community-Based Vocational Training

A New Leaf contracts with area employers to afford a community-based vocational program to the individuals we serve. With the assistance of a job coach, individuals work at area businesses providing numerous services.

A New Leaf clients work at places like Blooming Acres, Shining Honor at Rose Hill Cemetery, Security Bank, Global Gardens, AAON, Green Country Veterinary Clinic, First Baptist Church Tulsa South Caring Center, Tulsa Technology Center, Broken Arrow Senior Center, Guts Distribution Center, Broken Arrow History Museum, Broken Arrow Military Museum, Community of Christ Church, Clarehouse, Tulsa Animal Shelter, Mother Road Market, Meals on Wheels, Woodward Park, Global Gardens, Tulsa Food Bank.

If you are a business located in the Tulsa MSA and would like your business to be a community work site for our clients. Please contact us at 918-451-1491

Horticultural Therapy

The horticultural therapy program offers clients a well-rounded environment to learn marketable job skills. Clients work in our six greenhouses, two public retail garden centers, and community vocational sales training program (wholesale routes). 

Blooming Acres, A New Leaf’s Community Supported Agriculture program, is a thriving 3 acre farm operated by the individuals we serve. Adults with developmental disabilities will be involved in all processes of farming – from planting seeds to cultivating the crops to harvesting the produce to delivering the product to consumers.