Annual Pinnacle Award winners announced
Honorees include Susan Neal, Martha Zapata, Molly Jarvis, Ebony Johnson, Lorena Rivas, Anne Bogie and Brandi Payton.
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Honorees include Susan Neal, Martha Zapata, Molly Jarvis, Ebony Johnson, Lorena Rivas, Anne Bogie and Brandi Payton.
Gail Lapidus has announced that she will retire in December from Family & Children's Services.
Over the years, the program has helped at least 586 women on paths to recovery from substance abuse. By extension, lives of at least 2,057 Oklahoma children have been positively impacted.
An audio version of this story A 24/7 psychiatric care center in Tulsa has added a dedicated police entry port and treatment beds to help law enforcement get people in crisis to appropriate help faster. The Police One Stop is at Family and Children’s Services downtown CrisisCare Center. Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin said up to now, officers have often been default mental health responders and have had to decide whether to take someone in crisis to jail, an emergency room or somewhere else. "It changes the dynamics of how we used to do things, where officers were driving from one locat...