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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.

The award from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will total $4.5 million, distributed as $900,000 each year for five years.

Edmond will receive nearly $1 million a year for four years as part of a System of Care grant from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the largest amount of competitive federal funding for children's mental health the city and its partners have ever received.