Bartlesville, Oklahoma (December 16, 2010) – Integrated Concepts, Inc., a local Women’s Business Enterprise National Council certified business, today announced that the collaboration of four local non-profit agencies and a regional attorney has resulted in the award of a Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women Rural Grant.  Through this two-year grant, the six collaborating entities will launch Operation Tri-county Triumph NOW to provide awareness, prevention, and education activities throughout Nowata, Rural Osage, and Washington counties.  Family Healthcare Clinic, Inc. will serve as the lead agency and primary care medical services for the project, with Family Crisis and Counseling Center, Inc. providing direct services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.  Other project partners include Families and Communities Empowered for Safety, Inc. (f.a.c.e.s.) and T.K. Wolf, Inc., two all-volunteer non-profit agencies located in Tulsa
and Skiatook, respectively.  These two agencies will provide education, outreach, research, and awareness activities during the two-year project.  M.  Timothy Gray, JD will provide direct legal services to victims for protective order hearings, consultation to all partnering agencies on policies and procedures, and leadership on coordinated community response team formation.
 
The OTT-NOW goal is establishment of an impenetrable safety net of services for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking within Nowata, Rural Osage, and Washington
Counties
in Oklahoma
.  To accomplish this goal, the project partners have established three objectives:  1) Identify and implement sound policies, procedures, and protocols to appropriately respond to and assure the safety, integrity and confidentiality of victims within our service area; 2) Expand medical, counseling and legal services to victims within our underserved rural service area; and 3) Increase the safety and well-being of women and children by increasing awareness through public awareness and educational opportunities targeting the medical, legal, counseling, victim advocates, non-profit, corporate, educational and civic leadership arenas who deal directly and immediately with victims.
 
Integrated Concepts, Inc. is privileged to serve as project coordinator for OTT-NOW! Sheree L. Hukill will serve as Project Director who’s primary responsibility is to oversee the project for the duration of the federal grant including submission of all programmatic and financial reports and compliance with all statutory and regulatory requirements of the project. Ms. Hukill will work with all project members in coordination and planning of all nine workshops, training events, and sustainability plans.  Penny L. Pricer will assume the responsibilites of the Technology Team Director for oversite of activities related to team facilitation, technology needs of the proejct and oversight of project implementation and disemmination.  Chad A. Jordan will serve as Creative Design Director responsible for branding, marketing, and consistency of message delivered by the project partners.  Additionally, the ICI team will provide presentations at each of the nine scheduled workshops and produce a project deliverable documenting the official formation, progress, and outcomes of the project team and a community assessment for the three counties.
About Family Healthcare Clinic, Inc.
 
Effective July 1, 2010, Family Healthcare Clinic, Inc. (FHC) was officially announced as the new face of a forty-year veteran of Bartlesville
service provision.  In order to meet a significant identified community need for additional access to affordable, quality healthcare for families and individuals the Family Care Services’ Board of Directors voted to significantly expand services provided by the agency. FHC now provides open access to healthcare through low-cost patient services.

Family Healthcare Clinic honors their long history within the community as a provider of non-profit medical care as they now promote the expansion of services to include general healthcare.  FHC envisions an organization with a respected, professional staff that provides quality healthcare regardless of social standing as well as educational programs that empower the community we serve. FHC will utilize positive collaborative relations with other organizations to ensure a healthier community and is looking forward to serving as the lead agency for the OTT-NOW Project.
 
About Family Crisis and Counseling Center, Inc.
 
Family Crisis and Counseling Center, Inc.’s (FCCC), the local 501(c)(3) responsible for the Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault & Stalking Division since 1982, is committed to breaking down barriers that prevent us from acknowledging and understanding domestic/dating/sexual violence and stalking. FCCC helps to open doors for victims of abuse with a goal for all to enjoy a life of non-violence.  Through their programs and services, FCC is dedicated to providing quality assistance to the members of the communities served. 
 
Executive Director, Barbara Turner, stated:  “We are looking forward to this tri-county project and the opportunity to collaborate with service providers throughout the region.”  FCCC provides the following services to area victims:  24 Hour Crisis Line,  Victim Advocacy, Emergency Safe Shelter,  Protective Order Assistance, Professional Counseling, Educational Groups, Children’s Groups, Men Choosing to Change, Women Choosing to Change, Non-Offending Parent Education Group (NOPE), Resource Information, and Outreach Education.  Prevention Presentations are provided to teenage groups (schools, organizations, churches, etc) and focus on making and retaining healthy relationships for youth and young adults based on open communication and respect.
About Families and Communities Empowered for Safety, Inc. (f.a.c.e.s)
 
Families and Communities Empowered for Safety, Inc. (f.a.c.e.s.) is an all-volunteer 501 (c)(3) organization born of the tragic death of a family friend whose ex-husband shot her, then himself, to death at her workplace in Tulsa, Oklahoma on 10 February 2005. Carrie was a beautiful person, a vibrant and well-loved daughter, sister, and friend, and a talented businesswoman at a hometown company. She was 31 years old. Her husband was addicted to drugs, unemployed, and had talked of suicide. Carrie didn’t tell. Carrie didn’t know she was at risk. Carrie didn’t know what she didn’t know.
 
f.a.c.e.s.’ volunteers teach those suffering violence in their lives how to get help and teach others how to give help. f.a.c.e.s.’ membership is in memory of Carrie and others who lost their peace of mind, and often their lives, because they didn’t know what they didn’t know about the many faces of interpersonal violence. The work of f.a.c.e.s’ volunteers brings hope, healing, and learning about safety from interpersonal violence across the life span to families, schools, workplaces, and communities.
 
The f.a.c.e.s’ philosophy of more heads and hands working together accomplish more applies to agencies, as well as, to our dedicated members, all of whom serve on their own time and with no compensation.  f.a.c.e.s.’ work strives to bring people together for the purpose of caring for one another and for those who are not able to help themselves. Our cadre of professionals that include physicians, counselors, business executives, attorneys, accountants, retired individuals, senior care services providers, judges, teachers, and nurses give presentations and show attendees how to teach at least one other person what they learned – “Each One, Teach One.” The core services routinely provided include, but are not limited to Screen 2 Save Med Ed, Hope Blossoms, Teachers as Hometown Heroes, Domestic Violence in the Workplace, and Community-Wise Safety.
 
About T.K. Wolf, Inc.
 
T.K. Wolf, Inc. (TKW) began in 1998 as an Indian 501(c)(3) counselling, education and research organization, working in the area of mental health and addictions and seeking better responses to issues that affect the American Indian community directly. The challenges of the indigenous community focus the work and concerns of this all-volunteer organization whose mission is to bring about integration and balance through use of the Medicine Wheel that serves as a guide for this work. In all TKW activities, whether counseling, addiction treatment, workshops, research, conferences, or consultation, the focus is on achieving health, positive change and growth in each aspect—mental, emotional, physical and spiritual. In the Medicine Wheel, health and positive change must occur in each aspect for health to occur in any one aspect.
 
For more than a decade, TKW came to see the connections between a number of addictions.  Research confirms that violence (e.g., battering, sexual assault and stalking) affects Indians in disproportionate numbers to any other race—violence that is mostly non-Indian against Indian. Recent research now shows that stalking is in itself an addiction. TKW observed that Indian victims, both male and female, are very often our leaders—attorneys, tribal administrators, teachers of our youth, grass roots activists, and leaders in business. TKW learned that stalkers are the most violent of all criminals
 
In many ways problems of indigenous peoples are the miner’s canary for the ills that come to affect the larger global community as well. For several years TKW has worked with highly selective universities and national experts in the field to accomplish better research and treatment for victims and perpetrators alike. During this OVW project educational and awareness materials created to date will be disseminated in our “home” territory.  Our licensed counselors and staff work with children and adults from all racial groups and will be available for referral by all project participants.
 
About M. Timothy Gray, JD, CDSVRP
 
Marvin Timothy Gray’s legal experience includes service as the Policy Director and Staff Attorney for the Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (OCADVSA).  In this position Mr. Gray provided legal and policy analysis and technical assistance to OCADVSA, member programs, state agencies, national entities, legislators and others. Mr. Gray also provided legal counsel and advice and limited referral services to individual domestic violence, stalking and sexual assault survivors in Oklahoma
and elsewhere.  Additionally, Mr. Gray has served as designee to the Oklahoma Child Death Review Board, The Oklahoma Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board and the Oklahoma Child Abuse Training and Coordination Council of the Oklahoma Department of Health.
 
Mr. Gray also volunteers service to the R.S.V.P. Court Watch program, f.a.c.e.s., and the Creek County Coordinated Community Response team.  Other volunteer services include numerous training and technical assistance throughout Oklahoma and nationally on subjects relating to Oklahoma legislation, domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, dating violence, pro bono legal assistance and programs, custody issues, court watch and court procedures for the layman.
 
Mr. Gray has worked with adult and child survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault for 9+ years in varying capacities and served as Director of Legal Services and General Counsel for Domestic Violence Intervention Services and Call Rape in Tulsa, Oklahoma
for over 7 years.  As Supervising Attorney of the Tulsa Presidents Family Safety Center Civil Legal Assistance Office, Mr. Gray represented hundreds of legal clients and supervised the cases of hundreds more.   Early in his career, Mr. Gray was an Americorps Domestic Violence Attorney in rural Appalachian southeastern Ohio
helping those who needed the most help in navigating the legal system. Mr. Gray received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Tulsa College of Law with a certificate in International and Comparative Law in 1998.  This followed attainment of a Master's Degree in liberal arts - Great Books of the Western World - from St. John's
College
in Santa Fe, New Mexico
.  Since graduation from law school, Mr. Gray has been awarded a Certificate in Chinese Law from the East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai, People's Republic of China
and has become an Oklahoma Certified Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Professional.
 
About Integrated Concepts, Inc.
 
Founded in 2008, Integrated Concepts, Inc. is a professional firm formed to alleviate the pervasive need of not-for-profits, educational institutions, governmental agencies, and business entities for fund development, event facilitation, technology solutions and team building/strengthening.   Integrated Concepts, Inc. is known for improved communication; increased collaboration; customized and affordable technology solutions; and professional, client-specific team strengthening processes facilitation.  The company’s mission is to creatively develop programs and implement technology solutions that empower people to work in a cooperative manner which increases the probability of success.  Integrated Concepts, Inc. currently serves clients throughout the United States and employs team members throughout Oklahoma and Texas
. For more information about Integrated Concepts, Inc., visit its website at www.iconceptsinc.com.
 
The OTT-NOW Project Team welcomes participation by all tri-county area service providers, law enforcement, judiciary, attorneys, medical professionals, faith-based organizations, clergy, business entities, and civic organizations.   Everyone is invited to attend the nine scheduled awareness and education events.  January 2011 and 2012 events will focus on stalking awareness; February 2011 and 2012 activities will address teen dating violence; in March 2011 and 2012 the team will show appreciation for the medical profession’s service to victims; April 2011 and 2012 workshops will highlight sexual assault education and prevention; and October 2011 will be devoted to the latest developments in domestic violence prevention.  Each member of the OTT-NOW Project Team is honored to serve the community through this project and look forward to working with other area citizens to create and sustain safe, healthy communities.