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Our 2025 impact report highlights legislative achievements and community collaboration that advanced access to mental health care across Oklahoma.

Healthy Minds brings state policy expertise to the coalition, whose members coordinate policy engagement and support implementation focused on integrated care, workforce capacity, and measurement-informed care.

Now, Oklahoma City’s mental health leadership team will use the report findings as a guide to select and implement the evidence-based interventions the community needs to add to its array of mental health and substance use services to better meet residents’ needs across the lifespan.

A program to embed mental health clinicians at Tulsa’s 911 center is just the latest example of “exponential growth” in improving how the city addresses mental health crises.

An estimated 100,000 Tulsa County residents have a substance use disorder. But about 77% of those who need substance use treatment do not receive it.

In ways big and small, mental health systems across our state are working better for Oklahomans than they did five years ago.