After enduring a series of abusive relationships and using drugs as an escape from her misery, Sonya was homeless, helpless and completely hopeless. When she entered FCS’s Women in Recovery (WIR), her daughter, Arianna,– who was a teenager at the time – was headed down the same dark path.
Hear mother and daughter talk about how WIR not only saved them from addiction and incarceration, but helped them become a family once more
FCS’s Women in Recovery (WIR) is an intensive addiction and trauma treatment program for women involved in the criminal justice system. Diverting women from prison and keeping families together can help break the intergenerational cycle of trauma, addiction and incarceration.
WIR saved Sonya from a long-term prison sentence and a life of addiction. But years of drug abuse had already done its damage to her family. It wasn’t long after Sonya graduated from WIR that her daughter, Arianna, also found herself in the program.
Watch the video above to learn how WIR but both mother and daughter on a path to recovery and helped to rebuild the family bond.
The COPES (Community Outreach Psychiatric Emergency Services – 24/7 telephone and mobile crisis service) team helps people find light on their darkest of days.
In 2018, COPES helped more than 11,600 adults and children find hope when there seemed to be none. Watch the video to hear a story about a man whose life was not only changed – but saved – by COPES.
If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health crisis, please call us at 918.744.4800.
Through rain or shine, FCS wraps around children, families and communities. FCS therapists are embedded in 46 Tulsa-area schools and 13 Headstart programs to work with children in low-income environments. Many of these children, like John in the video above, just need a little extra support.
The Community Response Team, a partnership between Tulsa Police Department, Tulsa Fire Department/EMSA, Family & Children’s Services COPES team and the Mental Health Association, provides a more effective response to mental health emergency 911 In the first 6 months of the program, the CRT responded to 80 suicide calls – and not a single one of those individuals completed their suicide attempt.
It’s no exaggeration to say that the CRT is saving lives in our community.
