Legal Outreach

Legal Outreach is a project housed at the Mental Health Association. Generated by a shared vision of the Mental Health Association, Resonance, the YWCA, and the Tulsa County government, this project continues its mission to enhance legal resources and to identify, evaluate, and diminish systemic barriers to access to justice for targeted disadvantaged populations.

Caroline Abbott, the Legal Outreach Coordinator, is a licensed attorney in good standing with the Oklahoma State Bar Association. She participates in an array of collaborative efforts, locally and state-wide, regarding interaction of the law with homeless individuals; women in transition; incarcerated persons; ethnic, racial, and religious minorities; and persons with physical and/or mental disabilities.

Although the Coordinator’s primary focus is on system-wide improvement of justice for these identified persons, she also counsels with and advocates for individuals and groups on such issues as access to justice, guardianships, legal and related resources, healthcare directives, and similar topics.

For additional information about rights and obligations, follow these links:

The Oklahoma Legal Aid website provides free information on a variety of topics including housing, public benefits, life planning, senior issues, individual rights, work issues, disability law, family law, and consumer law.
http://oklaw.org

Families in Transition, a project of the Tulsa County District Court, focuses on changing the Domestic Relations Division to minimize conflict, promote the well-being of children, conserve family resources, encourage alternate dispute resolution, and preserve the integrity of trials. Its website contains valuable information regarding divorce, child custody and child support, court rules and dockets, mediators and family specialists, as well as forms and links to related resources.
http://www.familiesintransition.com/

The Oklahoma State Courts Network consolidates Oklahoma statutes and cases law as well as selected federal information in a searchable database. The website features court dockets for a limited number of counties (including Tulsa County). In addition to links to alternative dispute resolution and certain legal forms, the OSCN homepage offers links to the Oklahoma state government, the Oklahoma Legislative Service Bureau, and the Oklahoma Bar Association.
http://www.oscn.net

The Oklahoma Bar Association states that its mission is to assist Oklahoma lawyers in providing justice for all. The parts of its website that are publicly-accessible include information about the Bar’s public service programs, law-related education, brochures and publications about selected legal issues, and judges and courts. The website contains features for finding an attorney, as well as filing a complaint against an attorney.
http://www.okbar.org/

The Tulsa County Bar Association offers information regarding its lawyer referral service as well as pertinent information for attorneys in Tulsa County.
http://www.tulsabar.com/