Research has shown that people who tend to be more grateful are also more likely to engage in other health-promoting behaviors, including exercising, following their doctor’s recommendations and sticking to a healthier lifestyle. Robert A. Emmons, professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, and a leading expert on the science of gratitude, said…
The Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office was recently awarded a $1.6 million federal grant for the Tulsa County Collaborative Jail Reentry Initiative, which aims to connect defendants struggling with mental health and substance abuse issues with resources both while they are in jail and after they are released. The grant is part of a collaboration…
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…
The Family & Children’s Services (F&CS) Parenting in Jail program in Okmulgee has reported a 64 percent success rate of graduates who have had more contact with their children because of the program. Ongoing in Tulsa County for six years, the Parenting in Jail program features the Parenting Inside Out (PIO) curriculum designed to deliver…
Before the Oklahoma Families First Program (OFFP), Sonya did not have custody of her children. Due to substance use and criminal justice involvement, her two older children had been removed by the Department of Human Services (DHS) and were living with family members. She started the program while pregnant with her third child. Sonya had…
