KRMG has been digging into a funding cut from the State of Oklahoma for crisis intervention services in Tulsa.
Oklahoma Mental Health Commissioner Allie Friesen sent a letter to Family and Children’s Services on March 19th informing them that two contract lines were being terminated.
One, totaling $1,682,300, was for the mental health agency’s COPES program. COPES provides intervention for individuals in mental health crisis, such as having suicidal thoughts.
The second, totaling $895,000, was for the Crisis Care Center, the agency’s inpatient care facility…