Funding for Tulsa’s mobile mental health crisis team has temporarily been restored — just weeks after the state abruptly informed Family & Children’s Services that two of its programs were on the chopping block.
COPES, which integrates mental health care and emergency response efforts, will now continue receiving funds through the end of the fiscal year in June. Meanwhile, Tulsa’s CrisisCare Center, one of the agency’s other major initiatives, is still set to lose state support on April 17.
Allie Friesen, commissioner of the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, said the state is still evaluating its next move…