Family and Children’s Services has partnered with the Tulsa Public Schools to provide immediate mobile response teams for students in crisis Two specially trained mobile crisis units, each comprised of a therapist and case manager, have been established exclusively for Tulsa Public Schools to handle mental health crises among students, said Amanda Bradley, COPES Associate…
Fourteen-year-old Julia was scared, exhausted and depressed. She didn’t have many friends at school and felt isolated. She couldn’t handle the pain she was feeling anymore. However, her mother noticed her behavioral changes and contacted COPES for Kids. COPES, a program of Family & Children’s Services (F&CS), provides support for adults and children in suicidal…
Most people think about crisis services as telephone intervention, a suicide hotline, and/or mobile response, and they are right. Family & Children’s Service’s Community Outreach Psychiatric Emergency Services (COPES and COPES for Kids) is that, but it’s also so much more. As Oklahoma’s only 24-7 free mobile crisis program serving adults and children in psychiatric…
