Oklahoma mental health sites face closures, employee layoffs
About 100 employees are expected to be laid off as the state Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Department closes a Norman substance abuse treatment center for adults and eliminates all of the state’s 40 mental health beds for children at another Norman facility.
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• Merging the Children’s Recovery Center and the Norman Alcohol Drug Treatment Center: $3.8 million.
• Closing the Bill Willis Community Mental Health Center in Tahlequah and restructuring beds at centers in Vinita and Woodward: $1.4 million.
• Griffin Memorial Hospital modernization plan: $1 million.
• Reducing mental health provider contracts: $500,000.
• Reducing substance abuse provider contracts: $185,000.
• Reducing advocacy contracts: $410,000.
• Implementing, from January to June, one-day-a-month furloughs for the mental health commissioner and four administrators: $16,283.
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