From the margins
to the center of care
UMA Center is a trauma-informed community health hub. We don’t just connect people to healthcare — we train them to become the health workers, navigators, and interpreters who make the system work for everyone.
A community health hub
where the community
is also the workforce
UMA is a word from the Quechua language meaning “summit.” We’re a trauma-informed community health hub based in East Tulsa — and we operate on a different model. The people who come to our screenings, attend our workshops, and use our navigation services are also the people we train to become Community Health Workers, medical interpreters, and care navigators.
We don’t ask people to leave their history at the door. Every service we design is built around it — because a missed appointment is often a story about survival, not indifference.
Our seven programs — from health screenings to workforce credentialing — are coordinated, bilingual, and culturally grounded. Transfórmate, Fantástico, FreshRx Oklahoma, Navegadores en Salud, Intérpretes en Salud, Strong Roots, and Raíces del Saber all work together toward one mission.
See our community in action
Every day, our neighbors show up — to learn, heal, grow, and lift each other. This is the Tulsa we’re building together.
UMA Center of Tulsa empowers Hispanic, immigrant, and underserved families in Tulsa to take charge of their health and well-being.
Through bilingual health education, system navigation, and direct connection to care, we remove the structural barriers — language, cost, eligibility, and fear — that keep our neighbors from the services they need.
We meet families where they are, in the language they speak, with the dignity they deserve.
UMA envisions a Tulsa where health equity is built from the ground up — by the communities most affected, with the tools they need to lead the change.
Bilingual health education, preventive care knowledge, navigation tools for insurance and benefits, and trusted connections to clinical and social services — so families move from reacting to crisis to actively managing their health.
Bilingual training, nationally recognized certifications, mentorship, and clear pathways into roles as Health Navigators, Interpreters, and Peer Recovery Support Specialists — building the bilingual, bicultural healthcare workforce Oklahoma needs.
When families have the tools to lead their own health, and community members have the tools to lead others into care, Tulsa becomes a city where no one is left behind by language, status, or circumstance.
Every program is a door in
to the healthcare system
From health screenings to workforce credentials — our seven programs are bilingual, trauma-informed, and built to produce measurable change in people’s health and economic lives.
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