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Michael W. Brose receives 2025 Lifetime Compassionate Tulsa Award
Summary
The Compassionate Tulsa Committee and Human Rights Commission presented the 2025 Lifetime Compassionate Tulsa Award to Michael W. Brose, LCSW, recognizing decades of work on mental health, homelessness and suicide prevention in the Tulsa area.
The Compassionate Tulsa Committee on the Tulsa Human Rights Commission presented the 2025 Lifetime Compassionate Tulsa Award to Michael W. Brose, LCSW, on Jan. 25.
The award recognizes Brose’s long leadership at the Mental Health Association Oklahoma. Al Carlozzi, chair of the Compassionate Tulsa Committee, said, “I could not be more pleased my last day as chairperson to have the honor of presenting the 2025 Lifetime Compassionate Tulsa Award to Michael W. Brose, LCSW.”
Brose served as chief executive of the Mental Health Association for about 27 years, Carlozzi said, and remained active in regional work after stepping down. During the presentation, Carlozzi described Brose as “a totally dedicated and tireless worker” who advanced services for people experiencing homelessness and those with mental illness and who practiced “radically inclusive” leadership.
Karen LaPlante, identified in the meeting as a longtime staff member of the association, told the commission she has worked with Brose for 23 years and credited him with sustained work on suicide prevention and gatekeeper training. The presenter noted Brose continued to produce mental health podcasts and to collaborate with the Tulsa Day Center on services for people experiencing homelessness.
Accepting the award, Michael W. Brose, LCSW, thanked the commission and the Compassionate Tulsa Committee, saying the honor “really means a great deal to me.” He noted the Human Rights Commission operates with volunteers “under the auspices of the city’s Mayor’s Equity and Resilience Office” and emphasized the continuing need for safe, affordable housing: “There’s always a basic human right for everyone regardless of status to have a safe, affordable, decent place to live.”
Speakers at the event credited Brose with expanding services into Oklahoma City when the Mental Health Association opened regional offices and praised his role mentoring staff, board members and constituents.
The commission and Compassionate Tulsa members closed the presentation with photos and informal applause. No formal vote or policy action accompanied the award presentation.
Brose’s award and remarks were presented as part of the commission’s regular Jan. 25 meeting; the Compassionate Tulsa Committee was established in 2015 after a unanimous city council vote to designate Tulsa as a compassionate city and to create the standing committee.
