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The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Tulsa provides immediate, effective, and comprehensive employment services exclusively to people recently released from incarceration. CEO’s program supports participants in gaining the workplace skills and confidence needed for successful transitions to stable, productive lives. We are dedicated to ensuring that justice-impacted job seekers have opportunities to achieve socioeconomic mobility.

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CEO Tulsa opened in 2011.

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August 18, 2025

Fox News 23

Local nonprofit discusses challenges for people after incarceration

TULSA, Okla. — A Tulsa nonprofit wants everyone to know how tough it is for people to start over after they get out of jail or prison. CEO Tulsa said one of the biggest obstacles is finding a place to live.

May 8, 2025

FOX 23 News

Good News: Local nonprofit helps recently incarcerated people find jobs

A nonprofit is helping people coming out of the criminal justice system find jobs. John Green is on a transitional work crew with the Center for Employment Opportunities in Tulsa. John was recently incarcerated and when he got out, he found changing his life would not be easy. “You know how it is, a lot of people are judgmental,” Green said. While Green was struggling to find work, he came across the Center for Employment Opportunities or CEO Tulsa.

June 6, 2024

Tiffany Shaw | Tulsa World

Opinion: Oklahoma's punishment-based probation system only speeds up incarceration

Trapped within the tangled web of Oklahoma's probation system, I have felt the crushing weight of its injustices firsthand, revealing a system that promises rehabilitation but delivers only oppression and recidivism. I cannot overstate the challenges and injustices that pervade this often-overlooked aspect of our criminal justice system, leaving individuals like myself trapped in an extended cycle of punishment.

December 26, 2023

'You Can Succeed': Tulsa Woman Who Spent Years in Prison Wants to Inspire Others with Her Comeback Story

She says she's living proof people can succeed after being incarcerated.

November 3, 2023

News on 6

Tulsa Nonprofit Helps Formerly Incarcerated Individuals in Job Search Training

Since Center for Employment Opportunities has been in Tulsa, it has helped over 2,000 people find jobs after incarceration. It's now moved into a new facility downtown, allowing it to help more people than before.

November 3, 2023

KTUL

Center for Employment Opportunities expands reentry services to formerly incarcerated

TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) — The Center for Employment Opportunities in Tulsa expanded its reentry services to formerly incarcerated people with a new location.

November 3, 2023

NPR Tulsa

Employment services for formerly incarcerated expand in Tulsa

A nonprofit dedicated to helping people released from prison is expanding in Tulsa. The Center for Employment Opportunities opened a new location on Denver Avenue and held an open house Thursday evening. CEO says they’ve helped thousands of former prisoners gain employment.

August 5, 2022

KTUL 8 ABC Tulsa News

Nonprofit helps former Green Country inmates become truckers

When Rodney Fisher was 22 years old, he was given a 52-year sentence for purse snatching. He was finally released in 2020 after maintaining his innocence for 34 years.

March 10, 2020

Public Radio Tulsa 89.5

[PODCAST] Getting to Know Tulsa's Center for Employment Opportunities

On this edition of ST, we learn about Tulsa's Center for Employment Opportunities (or CEO). CEO is a nationwide nonprofit that helps people who've just come out of prison find jobs and/or acquire skills and training. The Tulsa CEO branch opened in 2011; our guest is Adrienne Yandell, who directs the Tulsa outlet. Per the CEO Tulsa website: "CEO guarantees every participant who completes a one-week job-readiness orientation up to four days a week of transitional work on a crew and daily pay -- a critical asset during an important time. In addition to work and daily pay, CEO provides a robust set of wraparound vocational support services: on days participants are not working, they receive job coaching to find full-time employment."

October 23, 2025

Isidoro Rodriguez

The Day a Truck and a Memory Touched Hearts at CEO Tulsa

When Jesse rolled into the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) in Tulsa behind the wheel of a semi-truck, he wasn’t just showing off a new job but sharing a dream. After earning his commercial driver’s license and securing a position with a major trucking company, Jesse returned to the place that supported the launch of his career. But more than that, he came to thank Katie Garcia, his job coach and retention specialist, with an unforgettable gesture: a ride in his new rig.

November 2, 2022

Emily Montgomery

Over-the-road and onto a new chapter, Rodney finds success in trucking

Rodney, a new trucker, not only drives a long way in a short time for his routes but has come a long way in life in a short time.

November 20, 2018

Ashleigh Fryer

Katie Garcia

"[Those] were the first paychecks I'd received in seven years..."