Parkers Hope for Mental Wellness

About Parkers Hope for Mental Wellness

Parkers Hope for Mental Wellness is a recovery housing and mental health provider in Tulsa, Oklahoma, working in Tulsa County. The nonprofit was launched out of BLJ Counseling and Consulting Services and is led by Latia R. Parker, and it pairs certified recovery housing for men with counseling, assessment and case management across the city.

A Tulsa Recovery Housing and Mental Health Provider

The organization's stated purpose is to widen access to mental health support in underserved parts of Tulsa, and the housing grew out of that work instead of the other way around. Its recovery program is described as providing hope, health and housing, with an environment built to sustain abstinence and to improve physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being. The eight dimensions of wellness are the framework it works from. For a resident, that background shows up as a provider that treats a bed as one part of a care plan.

Counseling and Assessment Behind This Sober Living Operator

Alongside housing, the organization runs individual and family therapy, ADSAC assessments and referrals, case management, crisis intervention, life skills and parenting classes, and anger management and self-esteem work. ADSAC assessments matter specifically in Oklahoma, because the state's Alcohol and Drug Substance Abuse Course is the required path after a driving-under-the-influence conviction and a resident carrying one has to complete it somewhere. A housing provider that also holds the assessment and the therapy under the same organization removes a referral, a waitlist and a drive from a resident's month.

Where This Tulsa Recovery Housing Provider Works

The footprint is Tulsa and the surrounding communities. The counseling office sits on the south side of the city and the residence sits north of downtown, and the organization's outreach work runs wider still, into Sapulpa in Creek County and community events across the metro. Tulsa County holds forty-three certified recovery residences, more than any other county in Oklahoma, so a resident here is choosing from a real market. What distinguishes a smaller provider in that market is that a resident deals with the people who run it.

OKARR Certification and This Sober Living Operator

The organization's Tulsa residence is certified at Level 3 by the Oklahoma Alliance for Recovery Resources, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. Level 3 is the more supervised end of what OKARR certifies in Oklahoma, and it is the highest level the state's roster publishes. Certification is voluntary here, so an organization holding it has agreed to a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a documented relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint process that runs outside the house.

Questions to Ask This Tulsa Sober Living Operator

Applications go through the organization, using a printed pre-application and consent form followed by a face-to-face interview if the file clears. Submitting the form does not guarantee a place. The questions worth asking at this level are about the organization and not the bedroom: how long it has housed residents in Tulsa, whether it accepts referrals from drug court, probation and treatment providers, how the weekly charge is documented and refunded, whether therapy through the affiliated practice is included or billed separately, and how a complaint moves past staff to the board and then to the certifying body.