Family Safety Center outlines polyvictimization, services and funding uncertainty; new building planned for Oct. 2025

Suzanne Stewart, chief executive officer of the Family Safety Center, told the April Tulsa Women's Commission meeting that the center is expanding trauma-informed services even as federal grant funding remains uncertain and the nonprofit prepares to open a new building in October 2025 at 2829 South Sheridan.

Stewart said the Family Safety Center treats intimate-partner violence, sexual assault, stalking and the long-term effects of stacked traumas—what researchers call polyvictimization—and that those layered experiences drive many of the community’s worst health outcomes. "When we talk about trauma, this is a lot of people," Stewart said. "Over 240 individuals will be physically assaulted by the time this is over." She added that the center’s local data uses 2023 figures and that Oklahoma has ranked "number 2" in state domestic-violence measures in recent years.

The center is the local multidisciplinary adult equivalent of a child advocacy network, Stewart said. On-site partners include law…