Tulsa Boys Home

Tulsa Boys Home offers residential treatment as its core level of care, giving adolescent males the time and environment necessary to do the deeper work that short-term programs rarely allow. The residential setting means young men are fully immersed in their recovery — not commuting to appointments, but living within a community built around healing, structure, and accountability.

The program is designed for boys whose substance use is intertwined with trauma, PTSD, or co-occurring mental health disorders — conditions that require more than a single-focus approach. By addressing these layers within one residential program, Tulsa Boys Home positions itself as a long-term recovery partner for both the young men it serves and the families who support them.

Rather than importing a generic curriculum, Tulsa Boys Home has developed its own Relationship Healing Model — a treatment framework centered on the idea that repairing relationships is inseparable from sustainable recovery. The model brings together individual counseling, group counseling, equine therapy, and family counseling, weaving them into a cohesive residential experience rather than a menu of separate services.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) anchors the clinical work, helping residents identify and shift the thought patterns connected to substance use and related behaviors. For families who are able to participate, the inclusion of family counseling within the model reflects an understanding that a young man's recovery does not happen in isolation — it happens in relationship.

Tulsa Boys Home is built for adolescent males, including those entering treatment through the court system. The program is also specifically equipped to serve residents who are deaf or hard of hearing and those with HIV/AIDS — populations that many residential treatment programs are not prepared to support. This breadth of population-specific capacity reflects the center's long-standing role as Oklahoma's largest residential treatment facility for troubled youth.

For families researching addiction treatment and residential programs for a young man in their lives, Tulsa Boys Home offers a level of specialized experience that is difficult to find elsewhere in Oklahoma. The center accepts Medicaid, provides financial assistance, and offers sliding scale fees, so that cost does not become the deciding factor in a family's ability to access residential care.

Tulsa Boys Home holds accreditation from the Council on Accreditation (COA), an independent recognition that the center meets rigorous standards for the quality and delivery of its residential treatment services. COA accreditation is a meaningful marker for families comparing recovery centers and wanting confidence in a program's accountability and professional standards.

On the financial side, the center accepts Medicaid and offers both sliding scale fees and financial assistance — a combination that significantly expands access for families who might otherwise assume residential treatment is out of reach. Administrative staff are available Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and can be reached by phone at (918) 245-0231 or by email at [email protected].