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Mobile mental health unit offers comprehensive care in Tulsa | News [Video]

TULSA, Okla. — A mobile mental health clinic is available to help low-income people and those experiencing homelessness.

The Street Clinic, run by nonprofit Sunshine Community Services of Tulsa, offers medication management, therapists, peer recovery support and free meals.

The clinic will be open Friday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. near Archer and Guthrie.

FOX23 spoke with the people running the Street Clinic about how they came up with the idea.

“We worked in emergency services, all of us have a background in ER or EMS and that’s where it first started, we saw the need on the streets,” said Katarina Norman, nurse practitioner with Street Clinic. “As we moved into mental health, we realized that what they really needed was comprehensive mental healthcare, so we’re bringing it out to them like we would have back when we worked in emergency services.”

Street Clinic will be open every Friday …

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