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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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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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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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.
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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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
The strong partnerships MHAOK has formed with other statewide organizations are instrumental in serving the most vulnerable Oklahomans. Some of the Association’s closest allies in the fight to end homelessness are Homeless Alliance, Pivot and Oklahoma City Housing Authority, and the four organizations formally came together when the the City of Oklahoma City sought applications
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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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