Sometime between this Monday and next, the temperature will become downright unbearable. It is already formidable. Most of the state is in the midst of a winter thunderstorm, after all. While many of us – myself included – leave our warm homes, travel to the office in our warm cars before returning to our warm […]
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Happy New Year, friends! The first Mental Health Download episode of 2024 is live, and it’s a timely one. According to the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, the rate of unintentional drug overdose deaths increased 67% from 2019 to 2021, and methamphetamine was involved in nearly two-thirds of those tragic occurrences.
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As we leave 2023 behind, we’re celebrating the hard-earned victories, the lives changed, the partnerships made, the relationships strengthened and the lessons learned. We hugged, laughed, cried and literally leapt for joy all year long, because the people we serve are everything. Just a snapshot of our success include assisting more than 5,000 vulnerable Oklahomans
Rebecca Marshall, MHAOK Board Member, was featured in She Is Tulsa Magazine this month. In it, she tells a story that far too many can relate to: one of homelessness, of suicide, of disordered eating. She gives the readers an intimate view of what it’s like to trudge forward into survival while having your humanity,
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Angel, a native Oklahoman, was a mere twelve years old when she slipped out of the only place she called home and into the unknown. For five years, each day was a struggle for hope, a struggle for survival, as she endured the unforgiving reality that her stepfather’s sexual abuse was shattering her. “I had
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With very little exception, our entire staff attends a monthly training which serves to augment our understanding of the organization, the mission we strive to fulfill and the people we serve. Each session proves valuable, offering a layer of insight previously unknown, and each one is dotted with “aha” moments that are critical in adapting
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OKLAHOMA CITY – Mental Health Association Oklahoma (MHAOK) is hosting an afternoon celebration from 1 to 4 p.m., Friday, October 13 at Lottie House Peer-Run Drop-In Center in honor of the drop-in center’s tenth anniversary. The Lottie House is Oklahoma City’s only peer-run drop-in center, which is located in Northeast Oklahoma City. It offers nonclinical
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Dr. Kara Bagot closed out our 2023 Zarrow Mental Health Symposium keynote sessions with a fascinating, if not jarring, presentation on trends in adolescent addiction. Keeping with the modern world in which we live, she spoke not just of substance use, but also of technology addiction, as well as the impact of covid on trends
Our second keynote for the 2023 Zarrow Mental Health Symposium: New Horizons in Brain Science was Dr. Xiaosi Gu. Dr. Gu’s presentation, entitled Computational Psychiatry: Can AI Solve the Mental Health Crisis? blended decades of extensive research with the emerging and intricate technology of Artificial Intelligence. Unexpected at the start was her declarative that this
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MHAOK is honored to have Dr. Xavier Amador as our first keynote speaker of the 2023 Zarrow Mental Health Symposium: New Horizons in Brain Science. His presentation aptly shares a name with his best-selling book, “I AM NOT SICK! I don’t need help!” It was compelling, educative and filled with ‘aha moments.’ Like most good
