An eatery that provides women second chances gave Tulsans the first look at its new location Thursday.
In front of more than 100 guests, The Resonance Center for Women’s Take 2 Café cut the ribbon on its downtown Palace Building venue (330 S. Main St.), which sits a half-block south of the organization’s previous locale.
“This new space gives us something incredibly important: room to grow,” said Hillary Parkhurst Sutton, senior director of marketing for the Resonance Center for Women. “It gives Take 2 the ability to welcome more customers, expand our workforce opportunities and continue building a sustainable program that will serve women for years to come.”
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Take 2 is the Resonance’s social enterprise program that employs and provides transitional housing for women needing immediate employment upon release from prison.
Resonance, which will commemorate its 50th anniversary next year, is a volunteer-based nonprofit organization dedicated to providing a support system for women facing challenges.
“We know that recovery, housing and employment and community support are connected,” said Katie Gill Miller, executive director of Resonance. “Take 2 gives women an opportunity to learn. It gives them an opportunity to work, and it gives people an opportunity to believe in them while they are building something new.”
Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols said he grew up around the criminal justice system, with his father a police officer and mother a parole/probation officer.
His mother often talked about the people she oversaw, Nichols said.
“She would always tell the individuals who were in her caseload that their past was not their potential,” he said. “…Because of organizations like Resonance, because of the opportunity provided by Take 2 to begin to match things from an employment standpoint and to do it through recovery, those are the kind of things that begin to unlock that potential that my mom used to talk to all those folks in her caseload about.”
In 2025, Resonance supported 1,579 women with reentry services and/or outpatient substance use treatment. The three-year recidivism rate for Take 2 program participants is 2.13%, much lower than the overall women’s recidivism rate of about 16%, according to state tracking data.
“The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation is proud to support Resonance because we believe in investing in solutions that create lasting change,” said Bill Major, president of the Zarrow Foundation. “What makes Take 2 so special is that it brings together several things that we know that can transform a person’s life: opportunity, employment, skills, mentorship and a community that believes in you.”
