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Resilient Oklahoma movement aims to unite trauma‑informed and family‑support work across the state
Summary
The Children's State Advisory Workgroup told commissioners it is launching 'Resilient Oklahoma,' a unified movement to coordinate trauma‑informed care and family supports, supported by roughly $500,000 from partner agencies and a new cross‑systems coordinator position transitioning to OCCY.
Deborah Smith, chair of the Children's State Advisory Workgroup, and cross‑systems coordinator Tayvon Lewis told the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth on Sept. 1 that the workgroup is consolidating two prior efforts into a single initiative, Resilient Oklahoma, designed to strengthen family supports and reduce the impacts of trauma across the state.
Smith said the effort unites an earlier trauma‑informed work group and the Thriving Families/Safer Children initiative into one set of goals that center co‑design with…
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