Random acts of kindness can make a person’s day. Even if it is an hour out of your day helping out at your local food bank, helping serve food at Salvation Army, and more. Volunteering your time and energy is a HUGE act of kindness. Research has shown that doing good does you good. Altruism…
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Greer Fites, a 1978 graduate of The University of Oklahoma School of Social Work (OUSSW), has held a variety of positions at a number of agencies in the mental health field. She began her career at the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (ODMHSAS) in Norman, Okla., at what is now known…
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Tonight, approximately 811 people will sleep homeless in Tulsa. About 33% of them also have mental illnesses that are not treated. Many have struggled for years to become stable and many find it hard to do so because they are just coming out of prisons, jails, hospitals and mental health facilities with nowhere to go.…
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From the archives: This story was originally published in August 2015. Someone stole his tent while he was in jail, but that doesn’t matter now. Today, Gary Pino is getting treatment and doesn’t need a tent because he has a home for the first time in decades and treatment to recover. After decades of being…
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On January 26, Family & Children’s Services (FCS), along with the Tulsa Police Department and volunteers, conducted a point-in-time survey of homeless and formerly homeless to help determine an accurate count of homeless individuals in Tulsa County. The Point-in-Time (PIT) count happens once a year all over the country and is one of the best methods of…
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