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The Department was established through the Mental Health Law of 1953, although publicly supported services to Oklahomans with mental illness date back to before statehood: the first facility in Oklahoma for the treatment of individuals with mental illness was established by the Cherokee Nation, called the Cherokee Home for the Insane, Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, it was built outside the city of ...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA; pronounced / ˈ s æ m s ə /) is a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.SAMHSA is charged with improving the quality and availability of treatment and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and the cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.
Terri L. White (born 1973) was the chief executive officer of the nonprofit Mental Health Association Oklahoma, from August 2020 to May 2024. She is an American social worker who resigned effective February 1, 2020 as Commissioner of the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, a position held since May 13, 2007.
A Cohen Veterans Network clinic is now open in Oklahoma City, the state's second after the Lawton clinic opened for in-person services in 2021. 'We're here to save lives:' Mental health clinic ...
The Oklahoma County Crisis Center at 2625 General Pershing Blvd. in Oklahoma City opened in 2013. The facility is expected to serve as a model for how the upcoming MAPS 4 Mental Health Crisis ...
The District Attorneys Council was created by the Oklahoma Legislature in 1976.. In 2019, Steve Kunzweiler and member of the Council organized a DA breakfast "where they could all come together for the first time ever" to later "feel comfortable to pick up the phone and call one of the district attorneys if they have a question about proposed legislation" that would affect their work.
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The Oklahoma City Council held their first meeting on July 22, 1890 and passed Ordinance No. 1 that divided the city into four wards. Each ward had two council members, one serving for one year and the other for two years. The first City Charter was approved by city voters and Oklahoma Governor Lee Cruce in March 1911. In 1926, the office of ...