OPIOID ABUSE AND POVERTY IS NOT FATE

Terence Morris
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION 3701-A #145 SOUTH HARVARD TULSA, OK 74135
OPIOID ABUSE & POVERTY IS NOT
FATE

OPIOID ABUSE & POVERTY IS NOT FATE
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ABSTRACT
This report documents a multi-phased effort that explains the intellectual and scientific design
development and proof-of-concept validation learner environment (LE). This report design is to manage
education panel presentations within A MOODLE. MOODLE is a Learning Platform of course
management systems (CMS) - a free Open Source software package, designed to help educators create
effective online environments. Parameters defined during prior research, within the Pedestrian Awareness
Crosswalk Education MOODLE, follows development and internal testing. Participants are volunteers
with experiences within intersecting Public Transportation Policy. Often relying on think-out- loud
approach, specificity surveys, PSAs, Electronic cards, SMS, Live Polls and Instant Continuous Streaming
in an effort to capture as much subjective feedback as possible, with the intent to identify possible changes
that should be made both based on observations made by researchers and preferences suggested by
participants. Adjustments were made, creating a user-modified normative learner environment (LE).
Objective and subjective core behavior and core measurements are collected and analyzed in accordance
with the targeted research questions. Ultimately, this examination seeks to demonstrate industry and
cultural knowledge that will provide leadership for better defining a new era of Awareness offering a
greater quality of life for Ex-Drug Addicts living in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I will help Ex-Drug Addicts
understand “WHO” will be making the decision(s) to “ALLOW” Drug Addicts and Opioid Abusers A
SECOND CHANCE. I am offering HOMELESS VETERAN TARGET Groups “A GAUGE” to measure
up with and/ or against other similarly affected TARGET GROUPS. This study while deploying the
pedestrian awareness crosswalk education curriculum and design, builds upon previous efforts to employ
human factors through experience based in preparation for ongoing, and perhaps infinitely evolutionary
public policy. KEY CHALLENGE(S) TO EDUCATING EX-DRUG ADDICTS. This project had to
follow a proof-of-concept design approach, while considering user participation and experiences. To
bridge the information poverty gap, content design teams, had to design unique collected data sets.
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE: Expertise in gaining "access" and "selling points" to the senior
level "decision makers" in commercial and industrial space(s). Customize audience proposal developments.
Success and recidivism presentation(s) in addition to award-winning negotiation skills. Experience with
regional or national accounts. MANAGEMENT STRATEGY: Customer Opportunities, Geographic
Territory, Business Development, Social and Economic Analysis outlining the impact and well-being of
corporate resources, Employee and customer support, crew member applications, resumes, educational
backgrounds and training.
*Disclaimer. PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION HAS NOT independently began research studies to
more quantitatively refute or support Justice Initiatives concerning Opioid Abuse or Poverty. Based on
direct research from the organizations quoted in this article, I expect support for any results obtained
from this information.
Keywords: +0.8 BAC, Affordable Care Act, Americans with Disabilities, Autonomous Asynchronous
Vehicles, Community Safe Bus Routes, Critical- thinking, Drug Addiction, Economic and Social
Institutionalization, Focused Drivers, Gait Kinematics, Gross Impoverishment, Highway Safety
Countermeasures, Homicide Victimization, Injury/Non-Injury Fatalities, Learning environments,
Learning designs, Legalization of Marijuana, Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Obama Care, Opioid Abuse,
Peripheral Id, Poverty, Pedestrian Awareness, Pedestrian safety, Policy Implementation, Poverty-rate,
Public Education, Public Policy, Public Safety, Restrained/Unrestrained Occupants, Re-Investment
Programs, Safety Training Operation Protocol, Skepticism, Social cognition, Specificity-Surveys,
Transportation-Infrastructure Analysis, Transportation Policy Analysis

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Table of Contents
ABSTRACT 2
INTRODUCTION 6
OPIOID ADDICTION IS EMERGING AS ONE OF THE GREATEST THREATS TO THE
SECURITY OF AMERICA 6
WHY DID PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION BECOME CONCERNED WITH OPIOID
ADDICTION? 6
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION NATIONAL CAMPAIGNS 7
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION 7
HOW COULD OPIOID ABUSE AND POVERTY BE OVERLOOKED? 25
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE 25
NARRATIVE FALLACY 25
DEFENSIVE RESISTANCE 26
TRANSPORTATION POLICY 26
PUBLIC POLICY 26
UNITED STATES CITIZENS RECOGNIZE PROBLEMS IN OUR COMMUNITIES 26
AN AWARENESS TRANSFORMATION 27
WHAT ROLE DO I PLAY IN PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION? 27
CONTENT PROVIDERS 27
CONTENT STEWARDS 27
CONTENT PURCHASERS 27
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT POVERTY IN TULSA, OKLAHOMA 28
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE OPIOID CRISIS 7
Human Factors related to experiences 2
Key Challenge’s to Educating Ex-Drug Addicts 2
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE: 2
THE CITY OF TULSA AND THE COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL EQUALITY
INDICATORS 8
SOCIAL INSTITUTIONALIZATION AND ECONOMIC WELFARE 9
SHOULD MINORITIES AND DISADVANTAGED TULSANS BECOME MORE CONCERNED
WITH POVERTY AND WELFARE IN 2018? 9
DEFINING THE ETHIC’S OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONALIZATION 9
1. SLAVERY. 9
2. WELFARE. 10
3. POVERTY. 10

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NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF POOR LEADERSHIP AND ITS IMPACT ON SOCIALIZATION 11
THREE TYPES OF LEADERS IN TODAYS CORPORATE FRANCHISES 11
1. GOOD LEADER’S. 11
2. REFLECTIVE LEADER’S. 11
3. UNREACHABLE LEADER’S. 11
ENTRENCHING SYSTEMIC POVERTY 11
THE ROLE OF THE OKLAHOMA EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSION WORKFORCE
SERVICES DIVISION 11
THE WORK OPPORTUNITY TAX CREDIT (WOTC) 12
WHAT HAPPENS WOTC EMPLOYERS TEAM UP WITH COMMISSIONING AGENCIES TO
TARGET DISADVANTAGED CORPORATE RESOURCES? 12
PROTECTED INFORMATION DISCLOSURES 12
WHO ARE THE TARGETED GROUPS AFFECTED BY WOTC TAX FRAUD? 13
TARGETED GROUPS 13
THE AWARE PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT 13
HEALTH CONSCIOUS COMMUNITIES 13
HEALTH AND EQUALITY GAP INDICATORS AND DISADVANTAGED POPULATIONS 14
Physical Health, Mental Health, and Education are Health Indicators 14
HIGH-PRIORITY HEALTH ISSUES AND LEADING HEALTH INDICATORS (LHIS)? 15
OPIOIDS AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES HAVE EMERGED AMONG SOME SPECIAL
POPULATIONS 15
Physical Health, Mental Health, and Education disparities are key indicators that link social,
economic and environmental disadvantage. 15
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION MODEL HELPS TULSANS BECOME STAKEHOLDERS
CONTRIBUTING TO HEALTHY COMMUNITIES 16
ENGAGED COALITIONS AGAINST OPIOID ABUSE AND POVERTY 16
DISADVANTAGED GROUP LEADERSHIP 16
ONE VOICE IN TRANSPORTATION TREATISE 16
BUILDING SUCCESSFUL LEADERS 17
LEADERSHIP QUALITIES 17
GOOD “LEADERS” SHARE THESE QUALITIES: 17
EXCELLENT “LEADERS” SHARE THESE QUALITIES 17
CAUSAL MODELS 17
LEADERLESS-GROUP DISCUSSIONS 17
ASSESSMENT CENTERS 18
MEASURES OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE 18

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CORE BEHAVIORS 18
CORE MEASUREMENT IDEOLOGY 18
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION CORROBORATIVE METHODOLOGY 19
AMPLIATIVE INFERENCE 19
INDUCTIVE REASONING TECHNIQUE 19
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION SPECIFICITY-SURVEY ANALYSIS 20
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION ITEM ANALYSIS 21

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INTRODUCTION
OPIOID ADDICTION IS EMERGING AS ONE OF THE
GREATEST THREATS TO THE SECURITY OF AMERICA
Every day, more than 115 people in the United States die after overdosing on opioids. The misuse of and
abuse of opioids—including prescription pain relievers, heroin, and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl—
is a serious national crisis that affects public health, as well as, social and economic welfare.
Disadvantaged groups often face issues of safety and violence at higher rates than others in the
community. Children in Tulsa County experience abuse and neglect at higher rates than the national
average. Additionally, there are racial disparities in homicide victimization and large disparities by
region of the city in DVIS calls. When the leader is wearing the Emperor's New Clothes the negative
effects of poor leadership can be easily seen. However, we can't see great leadership opposite and get a
very clear picture of what is not. (Deb King, January 28, 2016. Professional Practice Consultant,
Education Strategist & Executive Coach.) While employed as shift-manager for a very successful local
restaurant in Tulsa, I kept daily notes about the guest experience(s) inside and outside of operational
activities. At the same time, PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION was hosting a fundraiser for ex-drug
addicts celebrating recovery from opioid addiction. I spoke face-to-face with people from all walks of life.
I continued to study and research scholarly papers helping to make my employment a great success. Of
the more than 515,000 Americans who have died from drug overdoses since 2006, most lived in poor
areas where there were few job opportunities, researchers discovered. (U.S. Opioid ODs Cluster in
Centers of Poverty by Steven Reinberg, Health Day Reporter, MONDAY, March 26, 2018. Health Day
News.) Coincidentally, the franchise, I worked for had restaurants in neighborhoods where the greatest
amount of narcotic abuse and poverty exists. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates
that the total "economic burden" of prescription opioid misuse alone in the United States is $78.5 billion
a year, including the costs of healthcare, lost productivity, addiction treatment, and criminal justice
involvement. The text herein may not read like a traditional research paper, nevertheless, PACE
TULSA AGS FOUNDATION research articles will provide readers with more insight about the
relationship between opioid addiction, poverty, social and economic welfare, and health conscious
communities in Tulsa County.
WHY DID PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION BECOME CONCERNED WITH
OPIOID ADDICTION?
PACE TULSA AGS Foundation is a Pedestrian Awareness Crosswalk Education and Public
Transportation Policy “think-tank” in The United States. Real-world feelings about Opioid Abuse &
Poverty are muted because of fear and ignorance. Wealth in America is aggrandized, and gross
impoverishment remains a reality for many Americans. The value gained from participation in the
“Aware Pedestrian” Pedestrian Awareness Crosswalk Education (PACE TULSA) Public Transportation
Policy platform, translates into an online resource(s); amplified captured voices, opinions, and
information. Community Re-Investment Programs like Obama Care and the Affordable Care Act have
significantly reduced the poverty rate and improved the health of many Americans, however, much-
needed policy implementations still need attention.
In the middle of the largest Opioid Drug Abuse Crisis the United States, Oklahomans, and Governor
Mary Fallin allow The Legalization of Marijuana without a threat of Veto. Voters in Oklahoma
approved a ballot measure making the state the 30th in the nation to allow broad access to medical
marijuana. The proposal, which passed by a 57% to 43% margin allows doctors to recommend cannabis
for any medical condition they see fit. Concern for some public safety and transportation issues is
higher on the priority list. This phenomenon is unexplainable. PACE participants in the AGS

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specificity-survey are concerned with, but may be afraid of, or are unaware about the scope of the
problem.
When used for organizational development purposes, specificity-survey models are both a guide to the
design of the survey content itself and an interpretation of the resulting diagnostic information obtained
(Church & Waclawski, 1998, 2001). The public policy process involves specificity-survey design for
repeated cycles of diagnosis, feedback, action planning, and change.
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION NATIONAL CAMPAIGNS
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION has established National Campaign Hooksi to disseminate the
knowledge we have gained from our listeners all across America. We have interesting seminars and
informative presentations for everyone to enjoy and learn from.
 MAKE SURE DRIVERS CAN SEE YOU (Paint the Lines Bolder Petition)
 SAFETY EDUCATION SUCCESSES (+0.8 BAC, Restrained/Unrestrained Occupants,
Injury/Non-Injury Fatalities, VMT)
 ONE VISION 2020 (Autonomous Asynchronous Vehicles, Learning environments & Learning
designs, Highway Safety Countermeasures)
 PEDESTRIAN-SAFETY-STARTS-WITH-ME (Fundraising Campaign)
 CROSSWALK ZONE (Safety Myths and Facts, Quizzes)
 PUBLIC POLICY BUNKER (Local & State Public Transportation Policies)
 GET ON BOARD (Membership & Media Outreach)
 STOP AND THINK…BEFORE YOU CROSS (Safety Training Operation Protocol STOP)
 LISTEN BEFORE YOU CROSS (Specificity Surveys)
 KNOW MORE ABOUT PEDESTRIAN AWARENESS (Campaign Planner for Pedestrians
and Motorists)
 PRACTICE MIND ON DRIVING (Gait Kinematics, Peripheral Id, Americans with
Disabilities & Focused Drivers and Pedestrians)
 EVERYONE IS A PEDESTRIAN (Attitude Assessments and Professional development)
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION is a place of access and opportunity to explore.
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION is a brain-network.
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION is a think-tank.
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION is an open forum for ALL PEOPLE 18 years of age and older.
We would like to bridge the information poverty gap by preparing people of all ages for their journeys
throughout their lives, as well as, in their careers.
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE OPIOID CRISIS
Opioid overdose rates began to increase in 2015, more than 33,000 Americans died as a
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fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid (National Institute on Drug Abuse, Advancing addiction
Science, March 2018).
In 2018, an estimated 2 million people in the United States suffered from substance use disorders related
to prescription opioid pain relievers, and 591,000 suffered from a heroin use.ii
 Roughly 21 to 29 percent of patients prescribed opioids for chronic pain misuse them.iii
 Between 8 and 12 percent develop an opioid use disorder.
 An estimated 4 to 6 percent who misuse prescription opioids transition to heroin.
 About 80 percent of people who use heroin first misused prescription opioids.iv
 Opioid overdoses increased 30 percent from July 2016 through September 2017 in 52 areas in
45 states. v
 The Midwestern region saw opioid overdoses increase 70 percent from July 2016 through
September 2017.
 Opioid overdoses in large cities increased by 54 percent in 16 states.
This issue has become a public health crisis with devastating consequences including increases in opioid
misuse and related overdoses, as well as, the rising incidence of neonatal abstinence syndrome due to
opioid use and misuse during pregnancy. The increase in injection drug use has also contributed to the
spread of infectious diseases including HIV and hepatitis C. As seen throughout the history of medicine,
science can be an important part of the solution in resolving such a public health crisis.
Although, PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION is a Transportation Policy "think-tank," Americans
can turn to the PACE TULSA FOUNDATION Online Resource Center for answers to issues affecting
the quality of their lives. My notes are extensive, but I will try to give you a brief outline of the angles I
would like to take in this article. Between 2000 and 2015, life expectancy increased overall but drug-
poisoning deaths contributed a loss of 0.28 years. This loss, mostly related to opioids, was similar in
magnitude to losses from all the leading causes of death with increasing death rates during this period
combined. Nearly all the life expectancy lost due to drug-poisoning deaths was unintentional and was
therefore reflected in lives lost to unintentional injury. However, the unintentional injury appeared to
account for less life lost than drug-poisoning deaths because of counterbalancing gains related to
decreasing death rates from other unintentional injuries, particularly motor vehicle crashes.
THE CITY OF TULSA AND THE COMMUNITY SERVICE
COUNCIL EQUALITY INDICATORS
This report uses data to measure equality using a tool developed in partnership with the City University
of New York Institute for State and Local Governance and The Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient
Cities network.vi The primary goal areas in Tulsa's report are an economic opportunity, education,
housing, justice, public health, and services. The City intends to utilize the Equality Indicators data
collected and analyzed by the Community Service Council to demonstrate commitment, transparency,
and accountability to improve the conditions for underserved Tulsans through the Tulsa Resilience
Office led by DeVon Douglass. The 2018 Equality Indicators score for the city of Tulsa is 38.93 out of
100, which is similar to other indicators scores within the cohort. Of the six themes, Public Health has
the highest score (47.00), followed by Services (42.78), Economic Opportunity (38.89), Justice (35.33),
Education (35.22), and Housing (34.33). The Equality Indicators set a baseline for the work we face as a

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community, Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum said, “The issues we aim to address do not have easy solutions,
but quantifying the problem is a critical starting point as we develop strategies to address problems that
have plagued our city for generations.”
SOCIAL INSTITUTIONALIZATION AND ECONOMIC
WELFARE
SHOULD MINORITIES AND DISADVANTAGED TULSANS BECOME MORE
CONCERNED WITH POVERTY AND WELFARE IN 2018?
The Oklahoma Medicaid agency is developing a proposal that could potentially take Sooner Care
coverage away from low-income parents who are unable to work enough hours. Under this plan, if
parents aren’t able to work a certain number of hours or aren’t able to log their hours, they’ll lose the
health coverage they need. There is no evidence that taking away coverage from a person who is unable
to work enough will either increase work or improve health. Instead, it actually harms both. This
proposal will not help poverty decrease in Oklahoma, which has a 16.6% poverty rate according to
American Progress.org.
DEFINING THE ETHIC’S OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONALIZATION
To institutionalize something means to establish it as part of a culture, social system, or organization.
The “social institutionalization” strategy is the process which translates an organization's code of
conduct, mission, policies, vision, and strategic plans into actionable guidelines which are applicable to
daily activities of officers and other employees. At the end of the process strategy, there should be an
integration of fundamental values and objectives which relate within an organization's culture and
structure. The institutionalization of ethics is an important task for today's organizations if they are to
effectively counteract the increasingly frequent occurrences of blatantly unethical and often illegal
behavior within large and often highly respected organizations. I would like to revisit a couple of forms
of blatant unethical stereotyped prolific and illegal behaviors to establish some common grounds for
policy actions. These policy actions have to be enforceable either with legislative or judicial authority.
And the rules for establishing policies that minimalized these behaviors must be clear and
understandable.
Ramon Smith and Jarron Moreland, both 21, are two men who were lynched in 2018. On April 18,
police found the dismembered bodies of the young men in a pond outside of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Three white men and one white woman have been arrested for the crime. (Equal Justice Initiative.
“Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror.” May 3, 2018.)
1. SLAVERY. Since earliest times slaves have been legally defined as INANIMATE things;
therefore, they could be bought, sold, traded, given as a gift, or pledged for a debt by their
owner. Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the
nation, and that can be done by showing them a higher one [character]. Maria Weston
Chapman, (1806-85) A U.S. Abolitionist. About Slavery as a social institution defined by law and
custom as the most absolute involuntary form of human servitude. The definitive
characteristics of slaves are as follows: their labor or services are obtained through FORCE;
their physical beings are regarded as the PROPERTY of someone else, and they are entirely the
subject to their owner's WILL.vii
Income disparity explored by the location based on race and educational attainment. Identified Tulsa,
OK income at or above self-sufficiency is equal to about 200% of the federal poverty level. Many families

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below 200% of poverty are reliant on public assistance to meet their needs. Education level also has an
impact on financial stability for many.viii
2. WELFARE. Welfare programs are financed from federal, state, and local government revenues.
The poverty level is a minimum income below which a person is officially considered to lack
adequate subsistence and to be living in poverty. Therefore, scores of single people without
children who have overwhelming barriers to gaining employment (penitentiary, narcotic
addiction, disabilities, housing inequality…etc.) are now in poverty. Welfare and public
assistance charities (food pantries, clothing banks, car repair vouchers, utility bill assistance, day
care credits, and medical cards) are all programs that provide at least a minimum amount of
economic security to people whose incomes are insufficient to maintain an adequate standard of
living. These programs generally include such benefits as direct financial aid to individual's
subsidized medical care and food stamps that are used to purchase food. Potential recipients
must apply to qualify for assistance. In the United States, the principal beneficiaries of welfare
are low-income families with dependent children, as well as, certain disabled and elderly
persons.
A small, southeastern Oklahoma county has the highest rate of homicides in the state. McCurtain
County recorded 71 homicides, or 20.5 per 100,000 people, from 1992 to 2001, according to the state
Health Department. Comparatively, Oklahoma County had 12.5 homicides per 100,000 people during
that time, and Tulsa County had 8.2. The state average was 7.8. In the past five months, McCurtain
County's trend has continued, with five more homicides. "Since November things have been insane in
McCurtain County," District Attorney Virginia Sanders said. "I don't know what the answer is."ix
3. POVERTY. Poverty, the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of
money or material possessions. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, tens of thousands of
poor people are negatively impacted throughout the world because of poverty every day. Social
problems that impact the poor (high-mortality, counter-subversive criminals, low-life
expectancy, high-divorce rates, increased teen pregnancy, drugs and alcoholism, mental illness,
militias, cultism, sickness, and disease) are among the greatest indicators of poverty. The
question is HOW is it possible for so much poverty to exist in a nation that outlines a
“prevailing standard of living.” The world's poverty is due to a low level of economic
development or to widespread unemployment. The United States is a democratic-capitalist
nation that has quickly bounced back after recessions and economic downturns. Economic
conditions in which people lack sufficient income to obtain certain minimal levels of health
services, dental services, insurance coverage, food, housing, clothing, transportation, and
education. Those services necessary for survival.
Impediments to learning are instances that remove students from the classroom. Irregular classroom time
can have an effect on both immediate and long-term student success. Racial disparities exist in both
suspensions and student mobility. Student mobility refers to any time a student changes schools that is
not related to a grade promotion, so it can be either voluntary (e.g., a move) or involuntary (e.g.,
expulsion from another school). In either case, there are direct effects on the student who leaves as well as
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NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF POOR LEADERSHIP AND ITS
IMPACT ON SOCIALIZATION
THREE TYPES OF LEADERS IN TODAYS CORPORATE FRANCHISES
1. GOOD LEADER’S. Individuals with the ability to improve skills. Their behavior allowing
for professional growth and training. Career-centered strategists increasing their business in
every way are industry-leading performance minded people that can unlock potential to benefit
organizations, occupational communities, and society.
Being an excellent leader requires an ability to notice study and understand internal, conscious or
unconscious, drivers of behavior.
2. REFLECTIVE LEADER’S. Their way is the only way. These leader’s surround themselves
with yes people. Fail to choose people important roles. Lack understanding of business
organizations. They underestimate processes and the systems involved. Historically, they meme
organized rites and rituals. Their own ideas are fixed. Can’t entertain other opinions. Rigid or
concrete thinking. Constantly repeats mistakes. Inability to listen to others. Can't change mind
even with expert advice due to an ego.
A Reflective Leader does not have the ability to change. This person is a direct barrier to continuous
improvement in traditional employment designs.
3. UNREACHABLE LEADER’S. These individuals have little to no regard for Good
Citizenship. They demand insensitivity amongst all of the employees. These people do not value
the people they hire. (High turnover rates, unfair terminations, bad work ethics, diseased faces,
bad attitudes, negative comments, classist, deceptive profiling, wage gouging.) Most of the
companies this type of leader is employed by are non-fortune 500 or 100 companies or unlisted
to add a business profile. Almost all of these leaders terminate before medical, eligibility dates.
When intolerance policies become public knowledge, they continue to pursue policies or
traditional profiling practices that foster hostility and mistrust in their organizational franchises
and city-state communities without shame or legal retribution.
Unreachable leader’s prey on new hires and do not attribute intrinsic value in their lives. Some
intrusive privacy practices include tampering with personal property, personal problems, background
checks, medical, residential, telephone, mail, other information considered protected or private.
ENTRENCHING SYSTEMIC POVERTY
THE ROLE OF THE OKLAHOMA EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSION
WORKFORCE SERVICES DIVISION
The Workforce Services Division has two main functions: provide guidance for field staff and field
activities at local workforce centers across the state and maintain a statewide labor exchange between
employers and job-seeking individuals as established by the Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933. Assistance
may be provided to individuals in the form of referral to jobs, referral to supportive services, training
assistance, or job development. The Veterans Services Division provides service to Oklahoma veterans
through Veterans Representatives located in local offices and out-stationed at key service delivery
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Workforce Services is responsible for administering the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA).
These WIA programs are federally funded and designed to provide employment and training services to
individuals who, for various reasons, have been unable to obtain meaningful employment. This includes
responsibility for administering programs that prepare youth and unskilled adults for entry into the
labor force. The program also provides job training opportunities to economically disadvantaged
individuals and those dislocated due to business closings and layoffs. The Workforce Investment Act
also mandates the development of a comprehensive workforce system that includes many other
workforce-related programs. To accomplish this goal, the division, in partnership with the Oklahoma
Department of Commerce, serves as the administrative staff to the State Workforce Investment Board.
The Board is charged with the responsibility of making recommendations regarding the development of
this comprehensive system. While there are certainly racial disparities in the workforce, geography
plays a large role, too. Labor force participation is a measure of both those who are employed and those
who are unemployed but still seeking employment, while unemployment is a measure only of those who
are not working, but who are currently looking for work.
THE WORK OPPORTUNITY TAX CREDIT (WOTC)
Economic opportunity is reflective of how disadvantaged groups experience issues like poverty, career
choices and workplace advancement. When Tulsans face economic hardship progress is pushed aside.
Equality stalls and economic opportunity diminishes when several indicators of systemic poverty
manifest in a disadvantaged population. Often their financial stability is negatively impacted.
Intractable, long-standing circumstances make social equity and upward economic mobility difficult to
achieve. Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is a Federal tax credit available to employers who hire
and retain veterans and individuals from other target groups with significant barriers to employment.
Employers claim about $1 billion in tax credits each year under the WOTC program. This credit is how
employers can help disadvantaged communities re-enfranchise as participants in burgeoning economies.
WHAT HAPPENS WOTC EMPLOYERS TEAM UP WITH
COMMISSIONING AGENCIES TO TARGET DISADVANTAGED
CORPORATE RESOURCES?
Obviously, if employers do not follow the law regarding WOTC, the IRS will become involved.
However, there is a small, but an obvious way that employers can "cheat" disadvantaged TARGET
GROUPS.
PROTECTED INFORMATION DISCLOSURES
Employers make separation decisions for various reasons especially in “at will” states where the
employer can decide to separate employees for any reason without penalty.
 A fellow employee or a group of employees when a team member(s) is having problems at work.
(Comprehension, medical, transportation, hygiene.)
 Another employee’s pay rate or income level.
 Job searches or other employment opportunities from job site postings internal or external.
 Which higher-up leadership style impresses you (or peers or employees) you like and/or respect
and which ones you don’t?
 Political aims inside the company or promotion aims
 Confidential information about trips or vacations, pregnancies, family heritage.
 Hazing or personality quizzes

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 Mirroring bad attitudes or bizarre or weird culture.
 Public sympathizing or empathy for bad decisions
 Time owed for errands, payout or work hours not recorded. Full WOTC not paid out to the
employee but recorded as such.
WHO ARE THE TARGETED GROUPS AFFECTED BY WOTC TAX FRAUD?
TARGETED GROUPS
Employers can hire eligible employees from the following TARGET GROUPS for WOTC.
Empirically, these TARGET GROUPS have BECOME DESENSITIZED to discussing PROTECTED
INFORMATION DISCLOSURES because they ALWAYS HAVE TO DISCLOSE TO RECEIVE
BENEFITS. Then the COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS BEGINS TO design “THE REASONS”
NON-COOPERATING EMPLOYEES should be TERMINATED.
 Qualified IV-A Recipient
 Qualified Veteran
 Ex-Felon
 Designated Community Resident (DCR)
 Vocational Rehabilitation Referral
 Summer Youth Employee
 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Recipient
 Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Recipient
 Long-Term Family Assistance Recipient
 Qualified Long-Term Unemployment Recipient
THE AWARE PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT
Any strategy that confronts discrimination and inequality in Tulsa, OK is almost always given a second
look. Tulsa, OK is the city that had the largest race-based massacre in American history. Moreover,
Tulsa, OK, has a very complicated history of racial tension. Today, with immigration reform and
migrant policy reformation, bridging the barriers is very difficult. PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION
plays a vital role in forming “ONEVISION” for Respect, Acceptance, and Understanding. All
pedestrians can work to cultivate our community. Moreover, OUR Aware Pedestrian Crosswalk
Education becomes a success with the cooperation of local businesses, organizations, and pedestrian
safety advocates. We will continue to update our listener's with the latest online resources about urban
and suburban adaptations and public safety awareness efforts locally. As well as, offer the most
affordable opportunities possible to Citizen’s in Tulsa, Oklahoma to learn more about being a part of
The Aware Pedestrian movement.xi
HEALTH CONSCIOUS COMMUNITIES
Our study is based on core measurement criteria and core behavior data obtained from surveys. These
surveys ask participants questions related to public and private transportation policy. Working with
City officials, planners, engineer, local business owners, and pedestrians in Tulsa, Oklahoma, we will be
gaining more insight into the needs and viewpoints of pedestrians in our community. This study will be
measuring high-impact travel, seating, public facilities, crime, ATS systems, crosswalk culpability,
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HEALTH AND EQUALITY GAP INDICATORS AND DISADVANTAGED
POPULATIONS
“Of 219 homicide victims in the state in 2011, 74 were black, according to data cited in the
study. Black Homicide Victimization in the United States is not an acceptable freedom to act
as one wish or thinks best.”- Amanda Bland, World Staff Writer, 1/24/2014
In 2017, the Office of Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion published a report for the range of
personal, social, and environmental determinants which contribute to individual and population health.
They found that people with quality education alternatives, stable employment, safe homes and
neighborhoods, and access to preventative services tend to be healthier throughout their lives. The
Social Determinants of Health that is critical to improving health care: Home, School Workplace,
Neighborhood, and Community.
 Discrimination, stigma, or unfair treatment in the workplace can have a profound impact on
health; discrimination can increase blood pressure, heart rate, and stress, as well as undermine
self-esteem and self-efficacy. xii
 Family and community rejection, including bullying, of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
youth can have serious and long-term health impacts including depression, use of illegal drugs,
and suicidal behavior.xiii
 Places where people live and eat affect their diet. More than 23 million people, including 6.5
million children, live in “food deserts”—neighborhoods that lack access to stores where
affordable, healthy food is readily available (such as full-service supermarkets and grocery
stores).xiv
These equality indicators present the relevant data that could define parameters of acceptability to non-
acceptability. African-Americans students on a path toward destruction can be identified by low
attendance; low interest; failing grades disruptive behavior. In high poverty environments middle and
high school student with just one, these early warning indicators can have only a 25% chance of
graduating. xxvi
A health disparity is a health difference that is closely linked with a social, economic, or environmental
disadvantage. Access to parks and safe sidewalks for walking is associated with physical activity in
adults.xv Visibility and traffic regulation enforcement are environmental indicators.
Physical Health, Mental Health, and Education are Health Indicators
 Longer life expectancy
 Students graduating from high school 4 years after starting 9th grade with physical disabilities
 Improved health and quality of life
 Health-promoting behaviors like getting regular physical activity, not smoking, and going for
routine checkups and recommended screenings.xvi
 Persons with medical insurance (under 65 years)
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“Northeastern University found those students who dropouts are eight times more likely to end up in
prison; three times more likely to be unemployed and earn roughly $100.00 million dollars less than
high school graduates. Furthermore, out-of-school, out-of-work youths will collectively cost Americans
about $292,000.00 dollars each in increased social service costs and lost earnings and taxes over the
course of their lifetimes.”
HIGH-PRIORITY HEALTH ISSUES AND LEADING HEALTH INDICATORS (LHIS)xvii?
Healthy People 2020 objectives, called Leading Health Indicators, has been selected to communicate
high-priority health issues and actions that can be taken to address them.
The 12 Leading Health Indicator topics are:
 Access to Health Services
 Clinical Preventive Services
 Environmental Quality
 Injury and Violence
 Maternal, Infant, and Child Health
 Mental Health
 Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity
 Oral Health
 Reproductive and Sexual Health
 Social Determinants
 Substance Abuse
 Tobacco
OPIOIDS AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES HAVE EMERGED
AMONG SOME SPECIAL POPULATIONS
According to Truth.com, 2018, Opioids include prescription painkillers like oxycodone, hydrocodone,
codeine, morphine, and fentanyl – and the illegal drug heroin. All of these drugs produce a similar effect
on the body because they're chemically similar. Opioids block feelings of pain and trigger a release of
dopamine, which is the chemical in the body responsible for handing out gold stars to the brain,
basically. A dopamine plus feeling good, feeling accomplished and other feel-good sensations.
Dependence on opioids happens with repeated use, so the parts of the brain responsible for releasing
dopamine only function normally when the drug is around--and when it's not, things get unpleasant.
Withdrawal symptoms can include aching, fever, diarrhea/vomiting, sweating and chills. Which sounds
like the flu or a bad order of clams, but worse, since the brain is still screaming for the one thing that
could make it all stop? Addiction to opioids can include strong urges or cravings to take the drug, even
though it’s having negative effects on health and overall life.
Physical Health, Mental Health, and Education disparities are key indicators that link
social, economic and environmental disadvantage.
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 People in communities with large-scale psychological trauma caused by natural disasters
 Older adults understanding and treatment of dementia mood disorders continues to improve.
Mental disorders are among the most common causes of disability. The resulting disease burden of
mental illness is among the highest of all diseases. In any given year, an estimated 18.1% (43.6 million)
of U.S. adults ages 18 years or older suffered from any mental illness and 4.2% (9.8 million) suffered
from a seriously debilitating mental illness.xviii Neuropsychiatric disorders are the leading cause of
disability in the United States, accounting for 18.7% of all years of life lost to disability and premature
mortality. Moreover, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for the
deaths of approximately 43,000 Americans in 2014.xix
Mental health and physical health are closely connected. Mental health plays a major role in people’s
ability to maintain good physical health. Mental illnesses, such as depression and anxiety, affect
people’s ability to participate in health-promoting behaviors. In turn, problems with physical health,
such as chronic diseases, can have a serious impact on mental health and decrease a person’s ability to
participate in treatment and recovery.xx
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION MODEL
LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS & LEARNING DESIGNS
An online Learner Module System environment allows the student or listener to follow along with the
presenter at his or her own pace. The online interaction within and outside of the modules often is less
intimidating because the presenter is only on the screen and not in person. The online LMS educational
material must be presented in a form that is more concise because it must be instructional while also
easily understandable. The material presented must be used by the learner or listener as a tool for
further study or investigation. This study or investigation is within the user's personal space, so the
dimension of privacy is greater. The test and or quiz material is often shorter. There is less content so
that only the most crucial elements of the lesson are provided. Further, in 2017, several researchers
have found that learning in a Module Object Observation Dynamic Learning Environment (MOODLE)
is often strategically the best approach when budgets are strained.xxi (Williams, 2013)
TULSANS BECOME STAKEHOLDERS CONTRIBUTING TO
HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
ENGAGED COALITIONS AGAINST OPIOID ABUSE AND POVERTY
 Facilitate community input through surveys, meetings, events, forums and advisory groups.
 Develop and present online education and training research.
 Lead fundraising and local policy initiatives.
 Provide technical assistance in learning modules, planning, and evaluations.
 Transportation policy and pedestrian awareness crosswalk education.
DISADVANTAGED GROUP LEADERSHIP
ONE VOICE IN TRANSPORTATION TREATISE
 "I respect you and together we will strengthen confidence within the performance of our
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 “I respect you and expect you to respect me. Together we work under the conditions and rules
of personal respect.
 “I respect you and at this time together we will be more productive for ourselves; our
communities and our world’s we both enjoy.”
 “I respect you and expect us to peacefully assure that the Citizens of Tulsa and our one world
communities have ‘equitable rights to personal expression.’”
 “I respect you and together we should accept all human obligations to ‘self-constitution’ in a
‘sound economy.’”
 “I respect you and together we ‘practice self-government in a ‘spirit of mercy’ ending in
‘universal benevolence.’”
“Armed with his knowledge including a rich history of volunteer service; patience and respect
within’ kindness, African-American people extend Goodwill throughout humanity.” –
Terence Morris is the author and founder of PACE TULSA FOUNDATION 2018.
BUILDING SUCCESSFUL LEADERS
LEADERSHIP QUALITIES
GOOD “LEADERS” SHARE THESE QUALITIES:
1. Ability to improve current professional skills.
2. Ability to gain insight into their behaviors which affect personal professional growth.
3. Ability to increase their business in every way.
“If successful…these ‘leaders’ can unlock their potential to the benefit of their organizations; their
communities and the world society.”
EXCELLENT “LEADERS” SHARE THESE QUALITIES
1. Ability to notice.
2. Ability to study.
3. Ability to understand conscious or unconscious drivers of behavior.
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION CAUSAL MODELS
LEADERLESS-GROUP DISCUSSIONS
Leaderless Group Discussion (LGD) Industry and government continue moving toward a team
approach, an approach that requires cooperative problem solving, effective communication skills, and
the ability to influence others by presenting ideas in an open, approachable, and non-threatening
manner.
WHAT IS THE LEADERLESS-GROUP DISCUSSIONS (LGD?)
1. Demonstrates self-confidence that inspires others.
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3. Welcoming encouragement to the ideas of others.
4. Never rewarding assertiveness at inappropriate times.
5. Effectively mediating opposing points of view.
6. Being open to the thoughts and feelings of other speakers.
Conversations that clearly distinguish enforceable authority from rhetorical antipathy avoid polarizing
political aversion. Others begin to listen to and understand what you are saying because they trust your
authority on the subject matter.xxii
ASSESSMENT CENTERS
Assessment Centers (AC) gives advocacy participants an opportunity to practice communication skills.
Lead or Coached Discussions often lead to a "dead end." However, practice and participation lead to
experience. In the assessment center environment, there are tools that can be used to help clarify the
goals of surveys, quizzes, and tests and helps learners better retain what they have learned. Most often
participant learners understand how to measure their success at the end of the assessment center.
WHAT IS THE ASSESSMENT CENTER?
1. Group Conflict: Addressing different points of view professionally.
2. Group Organization: Recognition of speech and response time limits.
3. Problem Analysis: Counter positioning poor analysis. Or bad Judgements.
4. Decision Making: Offering Science of logical thought as the prevailing guide.
5. Participation: Crediting the work of Others
6. Keeping on Track: Keeping the discussion on point; effective and productive.
MEASURES OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
CORE BEHAVIORS
Interpreter stewards’ deliver their body of knowledge by understanding coordinated logic within the
science of intellectual thought. To accurately establish premised core behaviors in thought, we look to
the English philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon. Sir Francis Bacon’s, Advancement of
Learning (Bacon, 1857-1870), is essentially a treatise on modern scientific thought.xxiii Bacon
emphasizes:
1. People are the servants and interpreters of nature.
2. Truth is not derived from authority but is only a variable indicator of fact.
3. Knowledge is the fruit of experience.
CORE MEASUREMENT IDEOLOGY
1. Accurate observations
2. Empiricist theory (Experiences) v. Skepticism theory
3. Instantiate cruces (Crucial instance) Human condition founds the economy, while human
nature determines the politics.
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(For example one of the most obvious clichés while interviewing for a job. APPLICANT: “It’s more
than obvious… that I am the right choice for this position.”)
However, ‘obvious choices’ are not always connected to the right attitude. Choices are not always
difficult. The good news is making the best choice’s means knowing the indicators of authority and
respect, your position is more competitive than your peers.
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION CORROBORATIVE
METHODOLOGY ANALYSIS IN INTELLECTUAL THOUGHT
PACE TULSA AGS seeks to present a forum to harness modern foundations of critical scientific
thinking into intellectual conversations about pedestrian awareness crosswalk education topics.
AMPLIATIVE INFERENCE
A term used mainly in logic, meaning “extending” or “adding to that which is already known”.
In Sir Francis Bacon’s “ampliative inference” is a:
INDUCTIVE REASONING TECHNIQUE
LOGICAL SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS
The Scottish historian and philosopher, David Hume, in “A Treatise of Human Nature,” describes the
development of material experience within skepticism as a philosophical doctrine that denies the
possibility of attaining knowledge of reality apart from human perception.
SKEPTICISM IS IN FACT BASED ON VIEWPOINTS ABOUT:
1. SCOPE (expansive pre-dispositions of the human mind)
2. VALIDITY OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE (limited pre-suppositions based on the workings of
the brain)
HERE’S A CLASSIC EXAMPLE: HOUSING EQUITY…FILTERING AND AN ARGUMENT IN SKEPTICISM
The Berkeley report is a rebuttal to an earlier, widely circulated report by the state Legislative Analyst
Office that claimed the best way to prevent displacement of low-income households is to simply build
more market-rate housing as fast as possible.
According to UC Berkeley researchers Miriam Zuk and Karen Chapple, the LAO report was not a
"nuanced" study capable of determining how the construction of new market-rate housing affects
different groups at the neighborhood level. Zuk and Chapple cite prior research that found "market-rate
construction can simultaneously alleviate housing pressures across the region while also exacerbating
them at the neighborhood level."
But because the LAO "omitted" affordable housing production data from its study, wrote Zuk and
Chapple, the agency was unable to see how new market-rate housing can both alleviate housing
pressures while at the same time causing displacement and gentrification in specific neighborhoods. The
LAO also failed to compare market-rate and affordable housing to see which type is better suited to
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Pedestrian Awareness Crosswalk Education is a curriculum intersecting public transportation policy
and public safety in the United States as it directly correlates with the body of information created to
formulate a topical hypothesis.
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION SPECIFICITY-SURVEY
ANALYSIS
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION uses "specificity-surveys" to connect with people Surveys can be
administered in many modes, including online surveys, email surveys, social media surveys, paper
surveys, mobile surveys, telephone surveys, and face-to-face interview surveys. For remote or hard-to-
reach respondents, using a mixed mode of survey research may be necessary (e.g. administer both online
surveys and paper surveys to collect responses and compile survey results into one data set.)
"Specificity-surveys is a great way to engage your audience and get feedback from them. You can use
online surveys in any number of ways, including finding out what topics your readers want to learn
more about:
• Get product feedback
• Conduct market research
• Get customer service feedback
• Gauge employee satisfaction
Privacy and Protected Information Catalogues
The length of the study; the political bias of the study group; and the aim of the institution requesting
the information from the study, greatly impact how decision-makers trend public perceptions and
stimulate interest and change. The anonymity of surveys allows respondents to answer with more
candid and valid answers. To get the most accurate data, you need respondents to be as open and honest
as possible with their answers. Surveys conducted anonymously provide an avenue for more honest and
unambiguous responses than other types of research methodologies, especially if it is clearly stated that
survey answers will remain completely confidential.xxiv
Injury Control and Safety
No other research method can provide this broad capability, which ensures a more accurate sample to
gather targeted results in which to draw conclusions and make important decisions. Specificity-Surveys
are relatively inexpensive to design. Online surveys and mobile survey acquisition, in particular, have a
very small cost per respondent.xxv
Storage Device Typing
Collect, aggregate, analyze, and report performance data using real statistics functions, real statistics
multivariate functions, time series analysis functions, missing data functions, and real statistics data
analysis tools which are all valuable notebooks when utilizing statistical tools for data collection and
analysis. Transportation and economic development opportunities are compromised when the validity
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Core Emotion Designation in Data Analysis
This designation happens after thorough research and reference(s) from within the science of
intellectual thought. Understanding specificity surveys help to derive conclusions about the data being
reviewed or studied. Some key indicators that signal successful implementation of training and
education programs; and about barriers to successful implementation of public safety policies, as they
relate to pedestrian awareness crosswalk education. These core behavior measurements help
sociologists and researchers correctly interpret data outcomes. This data analysis-skill helps knowledge
stewards overcome speculation and to correctly outline the scope of the problems they are attempting to
overcome.xxvii
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION ITEM ANALYSIS
Item analysis provides statistics on overall test performance and individual questions. This data helps
you recognize questions that might be poor discriminators, conceptual analysis, comparative analysis,
and content analysis is performed as soon as the available data set is complete. Uses for item analysis to
improve questions for future test administrations. Item analysis, cross tabulations is calculated for each
item of demographic variables, such as organization and job type. xxviii
1. Comparative analysis of the data from group to group was limited to comparisons between
individual groups and the summary results; for example, the descriptive statistics of the
entire organization.
2. Conceptual analysis and regression analysis is performed on the complete dataset(s) to
assess the strength of correlations.
3. Content analysis is performed on open-ended survey items and analyzed for major themes
which are identified after the survey.
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION uses “specificity-surveys” ongoing forum for policy development
and adoption related to urban transportation planning, programming, and operation.
“A primary purpose of NEPA is to ensure that federal agencies consider the
environmental consequences of their actions and decisions as they conduct their
respective missions. Major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the
human environment."- The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C.
§4321 et. seq.)
JUSTICE EQUITY: ENVIRONMENTAL VS. MODULARITY
UNDERSTANDING EQUALITY AND EQUITY
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION PUBLISHES Nonsystematic Reviews: A non-systematic review
is a critical assessment and evaluation of some but not all research studies that address a particular
issue. As with any public safety measure, equity-economy of education, health, housing and racial justice
disparities all play an integral part in the successful implementation or failure of a public policy
program. Researchers do not use an organized method of locating, assembling, and evaluating a body of
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includes a description of the findings of the collection of research studies. The non-systematic review
may or may not include a quantitative pooling of data, called a meta-analysis.
*Disclaimer. PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION HAS NOT independently began research studies to more quantitatively refute or
support Justice Initiatives concerning Opioid Abuse or Poverty.
1SAMTY XIONG, EQUITY SPECIALIST, FROM THE FOOD GROUP SLIDE-SHARE VISUALLY DESCRIBES THE
DIFFERENCES.
The concept of environmental justice refers to the goal of identifying and avoiding disproportionate
adverse impacts on minority and low-income individuals and communities. The provisions of Title VI of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Executive Order 12898 on Environmental Justice, and other statutes,
orders, policies, and guidelines affect planning and project decisions undertaken by Metropolitan
Planning Organizations (MPO), public transportation agencies, State Departments of Transportation
(DOT), and other transportation providers. Executive Order 12898 on Environmental Justice amplifies
the provisions of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that states “No person in the United States shall,
on the grounds of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits
of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial
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THERE ARE THREE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPALS AT THE CORE OF
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE:
1. To avoid, minimize, or mitigate disproportionately high and adverse human health and
environmental effects including social and economic effects, on minority populations and low-
income populations.
2. To ensure the full and fair participation by all potentially affected communities in the
transportation decision-making process.
3. To prevent the denial of, reduction in, or significant delay in the receipt of benefits by minority
and low-income populations.
The implementation of Environmental Justice Order in the transportation planning process should
assure public involvement of low-income and minority groups in planning activities and decision-
making, prevent disproportionately high and adverse impacts of decisions on minority and low-income
populations, and assure low-income and minority populations receive a proportionate share of
transportation benefits.xxx
According to to100 Black Men of Tulsa, pairs of black youths with successful black men shows African
American youth failure and crime life doesn’t have to be their destiny. “They see that ‘I don’t have to
live the way that I’ve been living,’ and being exposed to that type of person and that lifestyle, a lot of
times, is enough to get that young person to change the way they live,” he said. Blades pointed to
Tulsa’s churches as a force sizable enough to intervene in the lives of black youths and address similar
social ills. “Until that happens, I think we’re going to keep going down the same road,” he said.
WHO DESERVES A SAFE-SPACE?
Targeted disadvantaged group /Safe-Space(s) is "A place where anyone can relax and be fully self-
expressed, without fear of being made to feel uncomfortable, unwelcome or challenged on account of
biological sex, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, cultural background,
wage desensitization, employee engagement or spiritual identification.
CAN AFRICAN-AMERICANS HAVE A SAFE-SPACE DISADVANTAGE
BUSINESS ENTERPRISE, WHILE SHARING ECOLOGY WITH HATE BASED
ORGANIZATIONS AND RASH RAGE DOMESTIC ENEMY GROUPS?
"The opportunities of mercy that abound us are created within the 'spirit of
benevolence." -Terence Morris is the author and founder of PACE TULSA
FOUNDATION, August 2017.
African-Americans or black Oklahoman's make up only 7.4 percent of Oklahoma's state's population. An
African-American male is best represented as a civic when he's a card-carrying voter; a licensed citizen;
a community leader; and scholar. Every single person REGARDLESS OF race is born with emotions
wired our brains. That wiring causes your body to react in certain ways and for you to have certain
urges when the emotion arises. Actually, though, new research from the Institute of Neuroscience and
Psychology at the University of Glasgow, published this week in Current Biology, says the range of
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Here is a list of primary emotions:
Eight primary emotions (PE)
1. Anger: fury, outrage, wrath, irritability, hostility, resentment and violence.
2. Sadness: grief, sorrow, gloom, melancholy, despair, loneliness, and depression.
3. Fear: anxiety, apprehension, nervousness, dread, fright, and panic.
4. Joy: enjoyment, happiness, relief, bliss, delight, pride, thrill, and ecstasy.
5. Interest: acceptance, friendliness, trust, kindness, affection, love, devotion, compassion.
The thing was, as time went on, the face showed the distinction between the two, but when the emotion
first hit, the face signals are very similar, suggesting, the researchers say, that the distinction between
anger and disgust and between surprise and fear, is social, not biologically based.xxxii
A DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE OR DBE/ACDBE
A Disadvantaged Business Enterprise or DBE/ACDBE is a for-profit small business concern that is at
least 51 percent owned by one or more individuals who are both socially and economically
disadvantaged. In the case of a corporation, 51 percent of the stock is owned by one or more such
individuals; and whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more of the
socially and economically disadvantaged individuals who own it.
Eligibility requirements for certification as a DBE/ACDBE are stated in 49 CFR, Part 26. The following
six requirements must be proved by a DBE/ACDBE applicant but does not cover all the requirements
found in 49 CFR, Part 26.
1. Social and Economic Disadvantage: A disadvantaged owner must be a U.S. Citizen (or
resident alien) and meet the federal definition of socially and economically disadvantaged as
defined in 49 CFR Part 26.67. Presumptive groups include women, Black Americans,
Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Asian-Pacific Americans, Subcontinent Asian-
Americans, or other minorities found to be disadvantaged by the regulations or any individual
found to be socially and economically disadvantaged on a case-by-case basis.
2. Lower Income Personal Net Worth: Only disadvantaged persons having a personal net
worth (PNW) of less than $1.32 million can be considered as a potential qualified
DBE/ACDBE. Items excluded from a person's net worth calculation include an individual's
ownership interest in the applicant firm, and his or her primary residence.
3. Business Size Standard: A firm (including affiliates) must be a small business as defined by
the Small Business Administration (SBA). It must not have annual gross receipts over $23.98
million in the previous three fiscal years. Depending on the type of work the business
performs, other size standards may apply.
4. Ownership: Must be a for-profit small business concern where socially and economically
disadvantaged individuals own at least 51% interest and control management AND daily
business operations.
5. Independence: The business must not be affiliated to another firm in such a way as to
compromise its independence and control. These include, but not limited to, such areas as
personnel, facilities, equipment, financial and/or bonding support, and other resources.
6. Management and Control: The socially and economically DBE/ACDBE owner (s) must
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firm and to make day-to-day decisions, as well as long-term decisions on matters of
management, policy, and operations.
MARVIN BLADES, AN EX-TULSA POLICE OFFICER, FINDS THREE
RESOURCE-COMPETITION DISPARITIES AT THE CORE OF MODULAR
JUSTICE:
1. To avoid, minimize, or mitigate disproportionately decades-old war on drugs
2. To ensure the expansion of the nuclear family
3. To prevent the denial of, reduction in, or subsequent lack of positive male role models that
benefit at-risk or disadvantaged citizens of Tulsa, OK.
Modular ideology evolves intellectually as public-policy processes begin to affect stimulated attitudinal
changes unilaterally while emerging in private-sector economies, because of the need to compete for
Content Purchasers asset allocation decisions. Along with asset allocation decisions, “specificity-survey”
systems theory recognizes both external and internal influences on organizational behavior. External
factors that influence the organization include world financial conditions, global competition for
products and services, and political and governmental regulations.xxxiii
HOW COULD OPIOID ABUSE AND POVERTY BE OVERLOOKED?
Any recent salient event whether it is: Opioid Abuse, Poverty, Economic, and Social Institutionalization,
Housing Equity, Filtering or Health, are all subjective topical kernels of a "causative narrative."i If we
think about the world “in-practice” we think “simple.” We expect to understand learning without
testing the “ways-to-learn.” The narrative fallacy which biases us to top-down rather than bottom-up
strategies only allows the “leaders” to establish modular ideology instead of Pedestrians. Testing our
assumption, seeing our flaws, and establishing ways-to-learn…tells us more about our existing
problems than just assuming content narrative which follows clear observations. This “tendency to
assume,” changes the psychological dynamic of the modularity of an organization or system. This
change draws people in—and the people begin to face personal failures…learning from them. xxxiv
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
Cognitive dissonance is the term used to describe the inner tension we feel when our beliefs are
challenged by evidence. These challenges to our belief systems are healthy. Cognitive dissonance
becomes severe and we reframe, spin and sometimes edit our mistakes. When the world is looked at as
“simple,” we easily resist testing our leadership and those top-down strategies that help us to engage the
challenges in our communities that we all face.
NARRATIVE FALLACY
The narrative fallacy arises inevitably from our continuous attempt to make sense of the world. The
explanatory stories that people find compelling are simple; are concrete, ridiculous, and happenstance
rather than on countless events that actually have failed to happen. They must test assumptions, speak
up for the ‘safe-concern" of patrons in privacy alliterations and prevent system or logic failures
The failure to learn from mistakes is the greatest obstacle to transportation policy development.
Evolutions of the ideas surrounding successful deployments in public-private transportation policy help
revolutionize creative solutions that positively impact our world.
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DEFENSIVE RESISTANCE
The commission or omission of implementation failures could lead to excessive public capital loss or
pedestrian fatalities. Intellectual defensive resistance occurs when data is stored or programmed into
databases and the conventional wisdom we all regard as intuitive becomes garbled and rejected.
Complexity in a system is under-acknowledged. To overcome this type of defensive resistance Content
Stewards must have a profound respect for the complexity of the systems that play a vital role in
designing policy programs and processes.
TRANSPORTATION POLICY
Transportation Policy (TP) deals with the development of a set of constructs and propositions that are
established to achieve particular objectives related to social, economic and environmental development,
and the functioning and performance of the transport system. The common rule is that the public sector
usually provides transport infrastructure and the regulatory framework, while the private sector
assumes the provision and operations of many modes. ii These modes of provisioning can also happen
systemically and internally within organizations.
PUBLIC POLICY MODEL
Connections 2035 - Regional Transportation Plan - Tulsa – INCOG
Public policy is the means by which governments attempt to reconcile the social, political, economic and
environmental goals and aspirations of society with reality. Connections 2035 - Regional
Transportation Plan - Tulsa – INCOGxxxv Often acquires a study area within the city of Tulsa, OK and
begins a Transportation-Infrastructure Analysis (TIA) where the geographic utility has been
compromised. The 1,400 square-mile Tulsa Transportation Management Area (TMA) is comprised of
Tulsa County and portions of the adjacent counties of Creek, Osage, Rogers, and Wagoner. It is a part
of the seven-county Tulsa Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA), which also includes Okmulgee and
Pawnee Counties. The TMA is predominately urban, with nearly 85% of its population being within the
incorporated cities of Bixby, Broken Arrow, Catoosa, Claremore, Collinsville, Coweta, Fair Oaks,
Glenpool, Jenks, Kiefer, Mounds, Owasso, Sand Springs, Sapulpa, Skiatook, Sperry, Verdigris and the
core city, Tulsa. As of 2018, the population of the Tulsa County is 778,051, which accounts for 83% of
the Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Tulsa MSA is the 54th largest in the country and the primary
city, Tulsa, is the 46th largest city in the country in terms of population.xxxvi The goals and aspirations
of the Public Policy Model change as society evolves, and thus a feature of the policy is its' changing
form and character. A policy has to be dynamic and evolutionary.iii
UNITED STATES CITIZENS RECOGNIZE PROBLEMS IN OUR
COMMUNITIES
Automated Crosswalk and Connected Intersection Improvements have made dramatic changes in
Pedestrian Perception, and about their roles as citizens in our communities throughout the entire
United States. The impact in the minds of people who travel throughout their communities to
businesses work in these areas and recognized the achievements of successful traffic improvement
projects because of structural improvements to our streets, sidewalks, roads and sanitation systems in
modular intersections. These structural improvements dramatically impact the flow of traffic;
mechanical service; and insurance costs.
ii The Geography of Transport Systems. FOURTH EDITION. Jean-Paul Rodriguez (2017), New York:
Routledge, 440 pages. ISBN 978-1138669574.
iii ET. al.

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AN AWARENESS TRANSFORMATION
"An Aware Pedestrian is someone who identifies with being part of an emerging crosswalk
education health-conscious community, and whose actions contribute to developing this
community's constitution; government and economy through participation and practice." -
Terence Morris, Author & Founder, PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION. 2018
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION SPECIFICITY SURVEYS
PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION specificity surveys are designed to relate to the perceptions of
volunteer participants willing to offer and give advice about notices in automated crosswalks and
connected intersection improvements in our community.
 Safety Perceptions While Travelling At Night
 Skate Boarding; Cycling; Jogging; Walking; Non-Trails and Paths
 General Engineering Designs; Widening Crosswalk Lines
 Hawk Intersection Technology and Reflective Markings & Signs
 Traffic Accidents; Fatality Injury; and Crime
Most of these traffic improvement projects happen because of a voter sale tax referendum which
allocates a percentage of our state's tax to these improvements. What about a "penny sales tax
referendum" for mitigating Opioid Addiction Abuse or Poverty which is destroying our communities?
PACE TULSA AGS survey participants are the stimulus which ignites structural frameworks that are
at play for future systems and customs. PACE TULSA AGS survey participants’ upgrade knowledge
and are personally rewarded by “Equity of Redemption” for dialectic pronunciation.
WHAT ROLE DO I PLAY IN PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION?
Pedestrian Awareness Crosswalk Education (PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION) is a curriculum
intersecting public transportation policy and public safety in the United States affecting both motorist
safety and pedestrian security. Selected information in this PACE TULSA curriculum will clarify how
Pedestrian Awareness Crosswalk Education curriculums better defines public transportation surface
policy and public safety.
CONTENT PROVIDERS
PACE TULSA AGS survey participants are encouraged to functionally browse interesting
content links initiating Synergetic and Diffuse Reproduction of all PACE TULSA CONTENT.
Moreover, PACETULSA AGS survey participants are essential to establishing coordinated
logic within this brain-network while preparing mentally for future societal engagement.xxxvii
CONTENT STEWARDS
PACE TULSA AGS survey participant Conventional Data Storage and Administration
processes are virtually recorded and simultaneously broadcast electronically while responding
to expanding "ecclesiological branches" of knowledge that concern itself with nature, self-
economy, and self-constitution for the GOODWILL OF MANKIND!xxxviii
CONTENT PURCHASERS
PACE TULSA AGS survey participants are the stimulus which ignites Multi-Channel and
Dynamic Delivery within theoretical and actual coded structural frameworks. Future

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intelligence systems and customs help PACE TULSA AGS survey participants' are personally
rewarded by dialectic equity of redemption in upgrade knowledge.xxxix
The experience gained from listening to, reading, studying, understanding, and memorizing desired
content, helps participants in this type of curriculum become better advocates for causes and policies
important to every citizen in The United States.
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT POVERTY IN TULSA, OKLAHOMA
In the early 21st century, more than one-tenth of the general population—and about one-sixth of
children under 18 years of age—lived in poverty. About half the poor live in homes in which the head of
the household was a full- or part-time wage earner. Of the others living in poverty, many are too old to
work or are disabled, and large percentages are mothers of young children.xl
According to the Oklahoma Policy Institute 2018, the federal poverty level (FPL) is a measure of
income issued annually by the Department of Health and Human Services that is used to determine
eligibility for various public programs and benefits, including Medicaid, health insurance premium tax
credits, the free- and reduced- school lunch program, SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program), and many others. The federal poverty level, which takes into account family size, is $12,140
for a single individual and $25,100 for a family of four in 2018. The states provide assistance to the poor
in varying amounts, and the United States Department of Agriculture subsidizes the distribution of low-
cost food and food stamps to the poor through the state and local governments. Unemployment
assistance, provided for by the 1935 Social Security Act is funded through worker and employer
contributions. And Social Security or Medicare continues to be overburdened by increased rolls.xli

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