National Center for Urban Solutions | Oklahoma
Building connected pathways for workforce training, wellness activation, and community-centered economic mobility.
NCUS Oklahoma brings together training, partnerships, employer alignment, community wellness, and local implementation to help people move from access to opportunity.
Employer-aligned training, certification readiness, coaching, placement support, and retention tracking.
AAWELLNESS Oklahoma Community Wellness ActivationPrevention, education, outreach, community events, and partner engagement under the AAMWA umbrella.
Partners & Funders Local Systems That LastCommunity, civic, employer, health, facility, school, workforce, and funding alignment.
Programs
The homepage is now the public-facing landing page for NCUS Oklahoma. NCUSTEC and AAWELLNESS are the approved Oklahoma pillars; Graphene Physiques remains preserved as a separate route and is not positioned as an NCUS Oklahoma pillar.
NCUSTEC Oklahoma
Employer-aligned training that moves participants from preparation to certification, career coaching, placement support, and 30/60/90-day retention tracking.
AAWELLNESS Oklahoma
Oklahoma-facing wellness activation under the African American Male Wellness Agency umbrella, focused on prevention, education, outreach, community events, and partner engagement.
Partners & Funders
NCUS Oklahoma works with employers, funders, facility partners, health partners, civic leaders, schools, and community organizations to build local systems that last.
Operating model
The local operating model connects community needs, employer demand, wellness activation, funding priorities, civic relationships, program delivery, and responsible reporting.
Understand community, employer, and partner needs.
Connect training, funding, employer needs, civic priorities, and partner capacity around measurable local outcomes.
Create programs, cohorts, partnerships, and support systems.
Operate training, outreach, events, and participant support.
Measure enrollment, participation, completion, outcomes, and follow-up.
Use after-action reporting and partner feedback to strengthen the next cycle.
Partner alignment
NCUS Oklahoma is designed to align employers, funders, facility partners, health partners, civic leaders, schools, and community organizations around practical local outcomes.
The partnership lane supports NCUSTEC workforce partnerships, AAWELLNESS community health partnerships, funding and civic alignment, facility/site partnerships, and employer pipeline conversations.
Pipeline conversations, readiness expectations, feedback loops, and placement support.
Approved reporting, funding alignment, cohort visibility, and practical outcome categories.
Site support, local access, community presence, and aggregate site-impact reporting.
Wellness activation, prevention education, outreach, and community health collaboration.
City Rescue Mission, OIC, and TEEMS help connect residents to referrals, support, and training pathways.
Education pathways, awareness, student referrals, and future training alignment.
Local priorities, convening power, public alignment, and durable community outcomes.
Training pathways, career readiness, referral lanes, and sustained participant support.
Current active work
NCUS Oklahoma is active where there is a defined local pathway and careful reporting boundary. Current priorities are described with public-safe language and careful reporting boundaries. This page does not claim unapproved results.
The Launch Cohort is the current NCUSTEC Oklahoma workforce pathway operating from Garden Oaks.
The cohort is designed around instruction, attendance, certification readiness, and career support.
Funding and reporting are tied to approved funder-facing reporting boundaries.
Garden Oaks is the operating site, with site-impact reporting kept aggregate and public-safe.
Reporting framework
NCUS Oklahoma is designed around responsible measurement. Student-level data is protected. External partners and funders receive approved aggregate or funder-facing reporting unless a formal data-sharing agreement allows more.
Local leadership
Marcus Brooks appears here as local executive leadership for NCUS Oklahoma, not as the primary site brand. Public team visibility follows the current profile rules and avoids private contact details.
Executive Director and local systems lead for Oklahoma implementation, partner alignment, and accountable delivery.
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Fiber Instructor supporting technical instruction, applied labs, skill development, and training readiness.
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Career Coach supporting readiness, interviewing, resume development, employer feedback, and follow-up.
View profileVice President, NCUSTEC, providing executive oversight for workforce strategy, operations, partnerships, reporting, and long-term growth.
Build with NCUS Oklahoma
Whether you are a student, employer, funder, community partner, health partner, or civic leader, NCUS Oklahoma is built to align people, programs, and partners around measurable local outcomes.