Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, right, looks on as state Sen. Kim David, R-Porter, speaks Tuesday during a news conference in Oklahoma City. Fallin announced that the state of Oklahoma and Tulsa-based Family & Children’s Services have entered into a contract aimed at reducing Oklahoma’s female incarceration rate. OKLAHOMA CITY — Governor Mary Fallin today announced…
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January 2019: Congratulations to all mental health court and drug court graduates! For many, this is a life transformation! Graduation is a tremendous accomplishment as participants had to overcome obstacles of daily responsibilities in addition to strict court and treatment requirements. Mental Health Court bridges two disciplines, criminal law and mental health treatment, in a judicially,…
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Last April, on the day rapper Logic released his song “1-800-273-8255,” calls coming into the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (NSPL) increased to 4,573 calls, it’s second-highest call volume at the time. Logic’s song is named after the NSPL and the phone number was used with permission. According to John Draper, director of the National Suicide Prevention…
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Piper Kerman is a Tulsa Town Hall featured speaker for the 2017-18 subscription series. For the first time, Tulsa Town Hall is offering a single-ticket evening presentation on the same topic that Piper Kerman will cover at Tulsa Town Hall on Friday morning: “The Real Life Story of Orange Is the New Black.” Although a popular Netflix series is…
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Stephania Grober Why did you first get involved with F&CS? In 2015, Ted Haynes, the president of BCBSOK, was the chair of the Tulsa Area United Way campaign and he made it a point to visit all 64 agencies and invited other folks from BCBSOK to attend with him. I made several of the visits…
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