Women in Recovery

Restoring lives and families

In 2009, GKFF launched the Women in Recovery initiative in partnership with Family and Children’s Services, an organization with a tenure of supporting disadvantaged families in Tulsa.‍

In Tulsa and across the nation, cycles of incarceration and root causes like drug addiction, untreated trauma and poverty are affecting women and their families. Women are the fastest-growing prison population in the U.S. — with Oklahoma among the top states with increasing rates.

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A one-of-a-kind approach

Women in Recovery’s comprehensive and long-lasting recovery efforts address the factors that cause an individual to become incarcerated.

The initiative provides a year of intensive treatment and services that help women overcome drug addiction, recover from trauma and acquire the essential economic, emotional and social tools to build successful and productive lives — all of which help prevent recidivism and open pathways to opportunity.‍

Efforts that are leading to change

Women in Recovery has been recognized as the single best program for fighting substance use.‍

The consequences of incarceration reach far beyond the incarcerated individual. Right now there are at least 25,000 children in Oklahoma who have an incarcerated parent. In tandem with programming that empowers women to change their lives and become contributing members of the Tulsa community, Women in Recovery successfully reunites mothers with their children. ‍

The collective impact of Women in Recovery has resulted in thousands of children regaining their mothers, women rebuilding their lives and the female incarceration rate decreasing in Tulsa.‍

‍Learn more about Women in Recovery on the Family and Children’s Services website.