The Mission
Women in Recovery (WIR) is an intensive outpatient alternative for eligible women facing long prison sentences. Operated in partnership with the George Kaiser Family Foundation, WIR works closely with the criminal justice system and various community partners to ensure program participants receive supervision, substance abuse and mental health treatment, education, workforce readiness training and family reunification services.
How to Get Involved
Participants plead into Women in Recovery through District Court. There is no application process through Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma.
Who Does WIR Help?
The program serves women who have a history of substance abuse and have pled into the program through the Tulsa County District Court.
LASO works directly with program participants to help remove their civil legal barriers.
Some of the services LASO provides:
- Criminal costs & fines reduction
- Consumer issues
- Family law
- Criminal record expungements
- Domestic violence cases
- Guardianships
- Housing
- Garnishments
Program Benefits
- Strengthens individuals and families
- Helps women involved in the criminal justice system become productive, tax-paying citizens
- Breaks the cycle of intergenerational incarceration
- Is more cost-effective than incarceration
- Improves public safety
Contact Info
Phone: (918) 947-4200
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