AJA: Embracing and Improving Gender-Responsive Jail Practices
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Submerge into the aquatic world of Brainiac Ball
Join Family & Children’s Services (F&CS) and chairs Madison and Garrett Graves at the Cox Business Center on March 7 for Brainiac Ball – Submerged, an immersive oceanic experience, all while raising funds for F&CS’s programs aimed to help Tulsa’s most vulnerable. Attendees will enjoy an evening of cocktails, dinner, team trivia, live auction, dancing and…
Changing of the Guard: Longtime F&CS Central Office patron retires
Betty Bothell holds a proclamation presented to her at a recent F&CS board meeting. On a typical day at Family & Children’s Services Central office, Betty Bothell sits quietly behind the desk, smiling, watching and waiting for the next young client and the parents to come in the lobby. “Can I help you?” she…
Family & Children’s Services obtains distinguished Paragon Nonprofit Award
F&CS CEO Gail Lapidus, Leadership Team members and Board of Directors Family & Children’s Services CEO Gail Lapidus accepted the Nonprofit Award from Leadership Tulsa for the Paragon Awards on Thursday at the Greenwood Cultural Center. The Nonprofit Award is awarded to a local agency who not only has hosted Leadership Tulsa interns…
F&CS Homeless Outreach ready to bring services to the streets
Karen has been a F&CS client since 2018. She was a part of Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH), a federal grant program which provides intensive case management services to homeless clients with severe mental illness. After completing the PATH program, she transferred to the Family & Children’s Services Homeless Outreach Team (HOT). …