Family & Children’s Services Women in Recovery (WIR), an intensive outpatient alternative to incarceration for eligible women facing long-term prison sentences for drug-related offenses, graduated 13 women in its latest class. This remarkable group consists of mothers and grandmothers of 30 children and three grandchildren. The 13 graduates overcame 197 collective years of addiction to…
Tulsa County fathers and male caregivers recently released from jail or currently in the David L. Moss Criminal Justice Center will receive parenting education thanks to a new program soon to be launched later this summer by Family & Children’s Services (F&CS). Parenting in Jail for Men will feature Parenting Inside Out (PIO) curriculum…
Family & Children’s Services celebrated the 35th graduating class of its internationally recognized Women in Recovery (WIR) program. This year, 19 WIR graduates walked the stage to accept their diplomas, including mothers and grandmothers to 40 children and seven grandchildren. The graduates are mothers and grandmothers to 40 children and 7 grandchildren. The 19 graduates…
Gail Lapidus, chief executive officer of Family & Children’s Services NOTE: This op-ed by CEO Gail Lapidus, which appeared in the Jan. 30 edition of The Tulsa World (view here), is the inaugural step in a new community awareness campaign focused on identifying and treating anxiety, depression and suicide among young people in the Tulsa…
The 2021 Children’s Mental Health Report examines the growing body of research on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s mental health, including the results of a survey of thousands of parents conducted by the Child Mind Institute. To download report in Spanish (Español) here. CMHR-2021-FINAL
