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The Tristesse Grief Center

Healing the Grieving Heart

aka The Grief Center   |   Tulsa, OK   |  www.thegriefcenter.org

Mission

The mission of The Grief Center is to provide emotional support to grieving individuals and families through professional counseling services, educational programming, and community collaborations.

Ruling year info

2002

Executive Director

Ms. Audrey McCraw

Main address

2502 E 71st St

Tulsa, OK 74136 USA

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EIN

73-1619790

NTEE code info

Family Counseling, Marriage Counseling (P46)

Counseling Support Groups (F60)

Other Youth Development N.E.C. (O99)

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Our programs

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Individual and Group Counseling

The Grief Center provides individual counseling sessions, family counseling sessions, and couples counseling sessions with professional counselors to anyone in need (ages 4 and up) throughout Northeast Oklahoma. Services are provided at The Grief Center clinic, and no one is ever turned away for an inability to pay. Individuals and families can pay through insurance or on an income based sliding scale. Scholarships are also available to cover the cost of counseling sessions for anyone who cannot afford the sliding scale fees.

The Grief Center also provides professional group counseling and workshops open to the community. Groups are loss-specific (Ex: Spouse Loss, Child Loss, Survivors of Suicide Loss, Pregnancy and Infant Loss), placing people who have had similar losses into groups together to create a safe space for sharing stories and emotions, as well as increase the bonding between group members. Loss specific groups are open to everyone in need, ages 18+. Workshops are open to the community. Some workshops are for adults only, and some are open to all ages.

The Grief Center also provides group experiences for families and children at no cost. Family Group is provided to families of all shapes and sizes, and Healing Hearts Club is a group just for kids and teens. Both are facilitated by professional grief counselors.

Population(s) Served
Adults

The Grief Center provides outreach services in the community in addition to the services provide in the clinic. These services include the Crisis Response Team, which deploys professional grief counselors to the sites of local tragedies and enables them to provides assistance immediately, as well as remaining on-site through the following weeks. Other services include groups for all ages, and workshops, all facilitated by professional grief counselors. Grief Outreach and Intervention Programs are provided at no cost to schools and other nonprofit agencies, and for a small fee to for-profit organizations.

Population(s) Served
Adults

The Grief Center provides engagement and education opportunities for communities across Northeast Oklahoma. This includes offering Continuing Education Seminars to local area mental health professionals, equipping them with the skills to immediately assist bereaved, and enable them to find the right help quickly. This also includes local speaking engagements and other community involvement.

Population(s) Served
Adults

Camp Erin Tulsa is part of the largest national bereavement program for youth who are grieving the death of a significant person in their lives. Children and teens ages 6 to 17 attend a weekend camp experience that combines grief education and emotional support with fun, traditional camp activities. Led by bereavement professionals and caring volunteers, campers are provided a safe environment to explore their grief, learn essential coping skills, and make friends with peers who are also grieving. Additional services are offered to support the whole family outside of the camp weekend. Through a network of partnerships with bereavement programs in local communities across the US and Canada, Camp Erin brings hope and healing to thousands of children and families annually and is offered at no cost to families.

Population(s) Served
Children and youth
At-risk youth

Where we work

Awards

Children's Champion of Health 2020

Blue Cross Blue Shield

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We shared information about our current feedback practices.

  • Who are the people you serve with your mission?

    Ages 6 to lifespan who have experienced a death loss

  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

    We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback

Financials

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The Tristesse Grief Center

Board of directors
as of 10/18/2022
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Ms Marissa Blevins

The Williams Companies

Term: 2022 - 2022

Laura Gonsalves

Community Volunteer

Tobie Bresloff

MD

Marissa Blevins

The Williams Companies

Amorita Christian

OneRiver Solutions, LLC

Cole Higbee

The Williams Companies

Kim Grey

Crowe, LLP

Nancy Haase

New York Life

Elizabeth Hayes

Blue Cross Blue Shield

Katez Marshall

Stepping Stones Cousneling Solutions

Julie Mathis

Laredo Petroleum

Ted Marshall

HUB International

Laura Beth Matson

Idea Ranch

Channing Wendt

Tenstreet, LLC

Board leadership practices

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 10/18/2022
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Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
White/Caucasian/European
Gender identity
Female, Not transgender (cisgender)
Sexual orientation
Heterosexual or straight
Disability status
Person without a disability

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Disability

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Equity strategies

Last updated: 10/18/2022

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Data
  • We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
  • We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
  • We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
  • We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
  • We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
Policies and processes
  • We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
  • We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
  • We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
  • We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.