HELP WHEN YOU NEED IT MOST

Our CrisisCare Center is open 24/7 and serves adults 18 years and older in Tulsa County. Call 918.921.3200 for help determining which crisis services can best meet your needs.

The CrisisCare Center provides critically-needed psychiatric beds and innovative crisis respite services that include:

• Triage and Screening and Assessment unit (24/7)
• Crisis Urgent Recovery Center (Up to 24 hours)
• Crisis Stabilization Unit (3-5 days)
• COPES

TRIAGE, SCREENING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER

A free resource offering immediate screening and assessment for individuals experiencing a psychiatric crisis.

CRISIS URGENT RECOVERY CENTER

This supporting and calming environment has continuous supervision and support in a comfortable, therapeutic setting for individuals experiencing:

• Bizarre behavior due to a mental illness
• Unmanageable, moderate depression and/or overwhelming anxiety
• An initial stage of active manic mood
• Suicidal, homicidal or self-harm thoughts or threats

CRISIS STABILIZATION UNIT

Our 19-bed, non-hospital crisis stabilization unit – built to alleviate the shortage in our community of inpatient psychiatric beds for Medicaid beneficiaries and uninsured individuals – provides short-term structured care as an alternative to hospitalization. Our goal is to help patients stabilize and achieve significant improvement within three to five days while they receive a combination of these services:

• Continuous evaluation and treatment planning
• Medication evaluation and monitoring
• Crisis intervention and de-escalation
• Mobilization of family and natural support systems
• Linkage to community resources
• Group and individual therapy
• Therapeutic activities
• Nursing services

COPES (Community Outreach Psychiatric Emergency Services), a free and confidential 24/7 telephone crisis line and mobile crisis service, provides emotional support children and adults in suicidal crisis or emotional distress. We can also work with family members, friends, schools, law enforcement and other professionals to ensure safe resolutions and intervention plans are put in place.

CRISIS LINE –If you or someone you know is in crisis, it is easy to reach out for help. Call COPES at 918.744.4800.  A trained mental health professional is there 24/7 to provide crisis support. You can also call or text 988.

MOBILE CRISIS RESPONSE – If you need face-to-face help, we can come to you where ever it may be – home, school, work or in the community.  Our 24/7 COPES mobile response team specializes in crisis management through immediate crisis assessment, intervention, stabilization, follow-up and linkage to community resources and mental health care. We are 988’s Tulsa’s mobile crisis response team.

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Si usted esta teniendo dificultad para encerrarse y adaptarse durante ésta pandemia, nuestros profesionales en Salud Mental estan disponibles las venticuatro horas, siete días a la Semana por teléfono para apoyarle y ayudarle en su desarrollo con nuevos caminos durante éste encierro de COVID.

(918) 744-4800

With help comes hope. We are a phone call away to help with a number of mental health crises:

• Suicidal thoughts, threats of suicide or self-harm
• Depression
• Severely emotionally upset
• Relationship crisis
• Aggressive behavior
• Threats to harm others
• Overwhelming anxiety or panic attacks
• Poor reality testing or thought disorder
• Paranoia, psychosis, delusional or decompensating
• Substance abuse emergency

COPES is free, confidential and available 24/7 to anyone in Tulsa County. Services may be billed to Medicaid as appropriate.

988 Mobile Response Team – The COPES team is one of the mobile crisis teams dispatched to a mental health crisis when individuals call 988 for assistance.

COPES for Kids is a specialized team dedicated to responding to crisis calls, day or night, for individuals under 21 years of age. 

CALL COPES AT 918.744.4800 WHEN:

• A child is talking about suicide or has had a recent suicide attempt.
• A child is talking about hurting someone or making threats to hurt others.
• A child is being bullied and it is becoming more difficult for the child to cope with a situation.
• A once-engaged child is isolating him/herself and not interacting with peers or teachers.
• A child appears to be talking to others who are not there, is hearing what others are not able to hear or is seeing what others are not able to see.

CRITERIA FOR A WELL CHECK

A well check is a phone call to the parent/guardian or the child to assess the stability of the child. COPES can provide well checks on days, evenings, weekends and during school breaks.

• A child is not doing well emotionally, having outbursts, isolating and can’t cope with a recent upsetting/traumatic event (death, bullying, divorce, etc.) or is battling severe depression or anxiety to the point he/she is struggling to attend class or engage in conversations.
• A child is having difficulty staying committed to safety, self-harming (cutting or burning), engaging in risky behaviors (picking fights, using drugs/alcohol, having unsafe sex, or running away).
• A child is thinking about harming others, making vague statements about handling the situation him/herself (I’ll take care of it myself,” or “That’s the last time they will do that to me.”)
• A child is having thoughts of suicide, they are not currently at risk, but you are concerned they may change their mind in a few hours/days.
• A child has been inpatient or at a residential facility and you can tell they are not doing well and may need to go again.
• A child wants help, but parents are not supportive and you are worried the child will not be safe once home (separate from being physically or sexually abused which would be reported to Child Welfare.)

The Community Response Team (CRT) is an innovative, first responder collaboration between a Family & Children’s Services COPES mental health professional, the Tulsa Police Department (TPD) and the Tulsa Fire Department (TFD).

The CRT provides crisis response services to 911 calls with an eye toward ongoing mental health support. CRT’s approach is designed to de-escalate a crisis, reduce risk and provide safe support for the client.

The collaborative currently responds to calls five days a week.

The Alternative Response Team (ART) is a mobile, co-response with Family & Children’s Services COPES clinician and Tulsa Fire Department paramedic, providing multiple layers of care in one response.

• The Tulsa Fire Department paramedic provides a medical assessment, medical care and transition of care if needed.
• The COPES clinician provides a clinical assessment and assists in providing follow-up services.

Together this model provides the right care, the right resources at the right time for individuals experiencing a mental health crisis or behavioral health request – a more comprehensive approach.

The Integrated Response Team (IRT) is a partnership between Family & Children’s Services and the Tulsa Police Department (TPD) that embeds mental health professionals in all TPD Divisions.

This allows mental health professionals to respond to multiple officer calls from each division instead of only one officer assigned to a specialty team.

iPad access for Law Enforcement – This is a partnership between Family & Children’s Services and law enforcement agencies around Tulsa County. It equips Officers with single push button immediate access to a mental health professional. Allowing for de-escalation, stabilization, connection to services and follow-up. Over 400 iPads are deployed around Tulsa County with an immediate connection to COPES to assist during crisis situations.

Family & Children’s Services (FCS) clinicians are embedded in Tulsa’s 911 Center. This is a partnership with the City of Tulsa and the Tulsa Police Department.

Having an FCS mental health professional to assist with calls going to the 911 Center when someone is in mental health crisis allow for immediate de-escalation of the crisis call and helps with an individual’s stabilization and connectivity to resources.

Psychological First Aid

For more information call Lorri Perez at 918.633.2407

YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
THERE IS HOPE. THERE IS HELP.

Have you ever attempted suicide? Do you feel as if there is no one you can talk to? Join us for eight weeks of support group meetings with highly trained professionals from Family & Children’s Services who provide direct, confidential counseling to individuals who have survived a suicide attempt.

For more information, speak with your F&CS therapist or case manager by calling 918.712.4301.

Suicide Prevention Training

You can save a life.

COPES offers free, evidence-based suicide prevention training for adults and youth, no matter your mental health training.

Posters, brochures and other materials are also available for use throughout the year.

Learn more. Contact Emily Farmer at 918.560.2537 or efarmer@fcsok.org