The Day Center offers services from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day of the year:

• Restrooms.
• Showers and toiletry items.
• Laundry services.
• Clothing.
• Message service.
• A mailing address.
• Storage shelves for belongings.

   

• Bus tokens for work and medical appointments.
• Access to reading material, games and television.
• Beverages and snacks at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.  
• Use of telephones for outgoing and incoming local calls.

Night Shelter Services, 5 p.m. to 7 a.m.

• Dinner is served to shelter clients by local Congregations.
• Clients are provided bedding and a sleeping mat.

Community Voice Mail

A voice mailbox is provided FREE OF CHARGE to clients in transition or crisis who are in case management. With the receipt of a personalized, private voice mailbox individuals are empowered to become self-sufficient, which in turn increases their potential for:

• gaining employment
• finding a place to live
• gaining access to available healthcare and social services
• safe communications
• family contact

Clients receive a local phone number that mimics a home answering machine; eliminating the stigma of being phoneless or homeless. Community Voice Mail (CVM) is an easy tool to use, with dramatic impact.

“The Tulsa Community Voice Mail Program is part of the national network of CVM sites, empowering people in crisis and transition by distributing free 24-hour voice mail nationwide – directly linking individuals to jobs, housing, safety and stability. Headquartered in Seattle, WA the CVM National Office website is: www.cvm.org

Case Management

Case Management helps clients develop individual goal plans, secure benefit information, provide job referrals, and letters of referral to access services and training programs. Assistance obtaining birth certificates, food handler's cards, Social Security cards and State approved picture ID's. Case management also helps with a range of basic resources-long distance phone calls, bus tokens and access to locked storage.

Onsite Services

Outreach services from organizations offering services that address the needs of clients are given space at the Day Center free of charge. Agencies include Social Security Administration, 12&12 Drug and Alcohol Treatment, Tulsa Housing Authority, Family and Children's Services, Domestic Violence Intervention Services, Veterans Administration, Department of Human Services, Legal Services of Eastern Oklahoma, Tulsa City County Health Department and Consumer Credit Counseling.

Life Skills Classes

Life skills classes are offered twice a year as a means of breaking the cycle of re-entry into homelessness.

Topics include:
Health care, housing, employment applications, resumes and interviews, disaster preparedness, personal hygiene, risk prevention, money management, and decision making.

Nurses Triage Clinic

Tulsa Day Center Nurses Triage Clinic provides medical care for homeless people who do not have access to any other provider. The Clinic's mission is to promote and support health care in Tulsa's homeless population.

The Clinic is open five days a week, and located in the Day Center. Medical services are culturally attuned and readily available in a barrier free, community-oriented site that provides urgent care, mental health counseling, TB testing, vision screening, health education, and referral to other health support systems.

The clinic staff follows up with patients by providing medical case management, setting appointments, providing referrals, and advocating for additional services. Health and prevention classes are held to teach clients how to manage illnesses, prevent illness and lead a healthier life.

A total of 10,220 patients were seen in the Clinic last year. By providing care to people who are homeless, the clinic assists the already overburdened health delivery systems and hospital emergency rooms. Fewer visits to local hospital emergency rooms is a savings to the community.

The Nurses Triage Clinic is a teaching site for students from Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma University, Tulsa University, Oral Roberts University, Northeastern State University, Bartlesville Wesleyan, Tulsa Community College, Langston University and for medical residents from area hospitals. Local physicians donate one half-day a week to treat patients that visit the triage clinic and make contact with clients that are in the Day Center facility. Their services include psychiatry, podiatry, ophthalmology and general practice.

The clinic maintains high standards of care and professionalism under the direction of a nurse practitioner and a registered nurse. An additional 37 nurses and 20 clerks volunteer in the clinic.