Homeless Outreach provides an array of services
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…
Homeless in Tulsa: The Point-in-Time Count
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…
Brooke traded her drug addiction for a running addiction
Brooke spent sixteen months of her life in prison due to drug charges. After serving her time, she was granted a year judicial review. At her review, Women in Recovery…
Kindness starts in childhood
The definition of kindness is the quality of being friendly, generous and considerate. We know as adults how to show kindness and compassion to others, but how do children start…
COPES: Innovative community resource
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…