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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With the 2023 Zarrow Mental Health Symposium less than ten days away, we are thrilled to release another keynote speaker conversation on the Mental Health Download, our podcast dedicated to exploring homelessness, mental illness, suicide, incarceration and innovative tools for addressing these challenges. Today, we featured Susan Magsamen, founder and executive director of the International
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We’re less than one month from the 2023 Zarrow Mental Health Symposium, and we are so excited to be talking to many of this year’s presenters on the Mental Health Download, our podcast dedicated to exploring homelessness, mental illness, suicide, incarceration and innovative tools for addressing these challenges. Today, Mental Health Association Oklahoma’s Chief Programs
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Along with so many others in Oklahoma, Mental Health Association Oklahoma marked Juneteenth with celebration and reflection. On Friday, our Oklahoma City peer-run drop-in center, Lottie House, honored that momentous 1865 day that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned they had been freed. The designation of Juneteenth as a federal holiday two years ago bolstered
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OKLAHOMA CITY – In celebration of Juneteenth Day of Observance, Mental Health Association Oklahoma (MHAOK) is hosting an afternoon of recognition and celebration from 1 to 4 p.m., Friday, June 16 at Lottie House Drop-In Center. Juneteenth, a marriage of the words June and nineteenth, became our nation’s twelfth federal holiday in 2021. The Lottie
We are so excited to close out Children’s Mental Health Acceptance Week with a party! Join us to celebrate at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 13 at the Capitol View Event Center in Oklahoma City. We’ll have free resources, snacks, and so much fun! Mental Health Superheroes will join the festivities from 11 a.m. to
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Hi hello and welcome to May! Can you believe we are here again? Today marks the start of Mental Health Month, which is to say we are on the first of thirty-one days dedicated to raising awareness about all things mental health. We are kicking it off with a challenge and a toolkit from Mental
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It’s a season of mental health education at MHAOK! With the demand for mental health services continuing to rise, we are pleased to have the opportunity to speak to so many different groups, including the group at this month’s Thrive Brain Health Symposium. Our CEO, Terri White, will be delivering an invaluable presentation entitled ‘Reimagining
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Just FIVE days until the best party in town! Viva Carnivale! Three decades in the making, this annual fundraiser helps us fund the programs that help vulnerable Oklahomans in need. After the first year, we were able to open Walker Hall, Mental Health Association Oklahoma’s first housing program. At that time, the proceeds benefitted twelve
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On Monday morning, amidst a crowd of city and state officials, contractors and MHAOK team members, Cynthia B, one of our Taylor Ridge Apartments residents, did the honors of cutting a purple satin ribbon in celebration of the newly renovated place that she now calls home. What a moment in time that was. We had
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