When a veteran in crisis told Britni Jacobson he was afraid to seek mental health treatment because he didn’t want to be away from his children, she shared a painful memory of her own — spending Mother’s Day separated from her kids while getting help.
Jacobson is a peer recovery support specialist at Family & Children’s Services in Tulsa, where she works on a mobile crisis team responding to people experiencing mental health and substance use emergencies.
She uses her lived experience struggling with mental illness to inform her work…