Tulsa Girls' Home approved for operation in Creek County

SAPULPA, Okla. — A Creek County readying committee approved the variance for the Tulsa Girls' Home connected Tuesday, opening the doorway for the cognition to get underway.

The Girls' Home volition connection a location and therapeutic services to girls successful the foster attraction system.

The Creek County Board of Adjustments passed the Girls' Home's variance by a ballot of 5-0 for the planned location successful Sapulpa.

The location sits connected what is considered cultivation land, which Girls' Home laminitis Brittany Stokes said the region requires a wide explanation of its use. Tulsa Girls Home defines itself arsenic a therapeutic residence that provides foster attraction services to girls betwixt ages 12 to 18.

“These are not girls who chose to beryllium successful this situation," Stoked told 2 News Oklahoma earlier the vote.

"These are not troubled girls who are being dropped off. These are girls who truly don’t person a home."

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