General Support
Our first priority is seeing to a client’s basic needs: shelter, food, clothing, and bathing. We offer rapid rehousing services, emergency shelter, medical assistance, and legal aid to help ensure all of those needs can be met.
Please watch the videos below to see our work in 2022.
Case Management
Our case managers are central to our goal of self-sufficiency. Once screened, our clients receive weekly meetings with their assigned case managers, who provide personalized help to match individual needs.Case managers provide crisis response, assessments and referrals. We meet the needs of our clients by:
- Providing emergency shelter, both day and night
- Offering clothing and basic needs
- Assisting to obtain Oklahoma IDs and birth certificates
- Referring to appropriate providers for psychiatric help
- Navigating the wide range of housing resources
- Preventing homelessness, including eviction avoidance, rental and move-in assistance
- Referring to the Tulsa Day Center Clinic
Tulsa Day Center Clinic
People experiencing homelessness face significant barriers to healthcare and are far more likely to visit emergency rooms than those with stable housing. As healthcare systems become increasingly complex and overburdened, many unhoused individuals struggle to access medical services even when they are urgently needed. Poor health can quickly lead to eviction, hospitalization, and chronic homelessness.
The Tulsa Day Center provides on-site clinical services to reduce unnecessary emergency room visits and help clients navigate the healthcare system. These services are designed to support overall health and promote long-term stability.
Clinical services include:
- Follow-up visits after emergency room or hospital discharge
- Medical case management
- Referrals to primary care providers
- Connections to mental health care
- Medication and prescription assistance
- Wound care
- Client health education
- Tuberculosis (TB) testing
Housing Opportunities
Our mission is to serve those experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of becoming homeless. Housing ends homelessness. This simple fact led us to build Hudson Villas, a 60-unit apartment complex. We also have other permanent supportive housing available.
We are currently using a mixed model that consists of the following types of housing:
- 18 units dedicated for the chronically homeless at Hudson Villas
- 10 units dedicated to Veterans exiting homelessness via the VA’s Healthcare for Homeless Veterans Program
- 17 units across two apartment complexes, scattered-site housing (for the chronically homeless)
- Full-market rate units available
- Section 8 accepted
- HUD-VASH (U.S. Veterans Administration Supportive Housing) Voucher
- Project-based vouchers in partnership with the Tulsa Housing Authority
- Rapid rehousing support
- Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency Voucher
Hudson Villas
7% of the 1,449 people surveyed in 2024, were veterans.
Of the 60 units at Hudson Villas, 18 are considered to be Permanent Supportive Housing, which is a proven approach to solving chronic homelessness for extremely low-income individuals with physical and/or mental disabilities who need not only financial assistance, but additional support services to live successfully in the community.
Clients at Hudson Villas have improved their health, overcome addiction, become community volunteers, returned to the workforce and avoided returning to homelessness. Success is based on long-term residency, defined as consistent housing for one year or longer. For the past two years, 95% of the residents at Hudson Villas met this benchmark.
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Rapid Rehousing
Tulsa Day Center’s Rapid Rehousing program works with Tulsa landlords to place individuals and families experiencing homelessness into permanent, safe and affordable housing. Using the Housing First Model, which puts no pre-conditions on housing, we assist with move-in costs such as security and utility deposits, short- to medium-term rental subsidies and provide intensive social services while families are in their own homes. These supportive services are designed to enhance each family’s stability and equip them with skills and resources they need to sustain, and thrive, in housing and to be more self-sufficient to avoid future homelessness.
Watch the video below to learn about our Housewarming Baskets.
