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Foster father and recovery advocate urges collaboration across systems at OCCY meeting
Summary
Mitch Sutter, a member of the Parent Partnership Board, told the commission his personal recovery story and urged better collaboration among courts, law enforcement and treatment providers to steer people into treatment and support family recovery.
Mitch Sutter, a member of the Parent Partnership Board and a foster, step and biological father, addressed the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth with a personal account of long-term substance use and recovery and a call for cross‑system collaboration.
Sutter described 8-plus years in active addiction and the death of his first son in…
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