Board Member, Brooke Townsend, is honored in Oklahoma Magazine
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Advocacy
James finds ‘a better way’
Relentless forward movement. That’s how James is navigating life in recovery, life on the streets. That is how James has literally found “a better way.” It’s been just over a year since James committed to taking his life back. Weathered and weary and ready to dry out, he found his resolve anyway. He knows the
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Celebrating BIPOC Mental Health Month
Dictated by circumstance, Bebe Moore Campbell’s legacy is strong and it is necessary. She was an author, a journalist, a teacher. Moore was also a tireless advocate for mental health. Just now, just in this modernizing world are we opening up more about mental health struggles and fostering dialogue around what life with mental illness
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House Bill 1031X introduces three new programs to incentivize affordable housing statewide
Imagine a bridge. One side of it is rickety, precarious. The area on that side of the bridge is derelict, but most don’t know it because most don’t see it. It could be hidden by trees or dilapidated structures, or it could go unseen simply because so many people don’t know or care to look.
An inside view of Governor Stitt’s dissolution of the GICH
As we continue to advocate for the most vulnerable Oklahomans, we recognize and applaud the innovative leadership at all levels who work alongside us in this fight to end homelessness. As our own Kelly Dyer Fry said in Sunday’s op-ed for the Oklahoman (a paper at which she was the editor for nearly a decade),
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Developing: the dissolution of the Oklahoma Governor’s Interagency Council on Homelessness
As the premier boots-on-the-ground nonprofit whose expertise and work primarily exists at the intersection of mental illness and homelessness, we were disheartened to learn of Governor Stitt’s decision to disband the 19 year-old Oklahoma’s Governor on Interagency Council on Homelessness (GICH). 2News Oklahoma reached out to us for comment, and past chair of the GICH