Moore Norman Technology Center

Counseling Services

MNTC provides student-centered counseling by certified and licensed professional counselors. Counselors facilitate student development in the academic, career, and personal/social areas through a highly individualized approach. Services include crisis intervention, community referrals, and individual and group counseling to assist with personal and professional growth.

All information disclosed to counselors is confidential, with the exception of immediate threat or serious or foreseeable harm to self or identified others, suspicion of child abuse or neglect, or court-ordered disclosure.

Toll-Free Counseling Helplines:

Teenline
1-800-522-TEEN (helpline available 3 pm to midnight)
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
1-800-273-TALK (24-hour hotline)
www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org
2-1-1 Community Resource and Referral
1-800-522-9054 (Reachout hotline- 24-hour assistance with Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services)
www.211oklahoma.org

Basic Needs
Applicant	Program	Description
American Red Cross	Armed Forces Emergency Services	ARC provides pre-deployment briefings and welcome home presentations to troops in the Norman area. They are the single communication for service persons during times of emergencies and will provide financial assistance if needed.
American Red Cross 321.0591	Emergency Response	The American Red Cross assists any and people who cannot provide for themselves the basic needs of food, clothing, shelter and urgent medical needs (life sustaining prescriptions and needed medical devices), as well as addressing the mental health needs that often accompany disasters.
Community Action 447.0832	Rent & Mortgage	The Norman Family Support Office provides rent and mortgage assistance to prevent imminent homelessness.
Food and Shelter for Friends	Emergency Services Transportation Assistance	This program provides bus tickets for emergency relocation to persons stranded in our community without resources to return home or to a verifiable place of safety; victims of domestic violence, fuel/repair vouchers to working poor needing gas or minor repairs.
Food and Shelter for Friends 360.4954	Food & Outreach	FSFF food & outreach program offers hot meals for anyone who walks through the door, hot showers and clean bathroom facilities. They also provide toiletries, clothing, bedding, etc. They are also equipped with telephone and internet access to assist with employment and housing searches and to help keep clients connected to family and friends. Laundry facilities are offered to those who are homeless or precariously housed.
Salvation Army 364.9910	Emergency Services	An evangelical part of the Christian church, Salvation Army provides spiritual services, emergency shelter, food, hot meals, utility assistance, clothing and disaster services.
Women 364.9424	Family Violence Shelter	The Family Violence Shelter is for families harmed or threatened with harm, or if there is a history of abuse and another violent event seems eminent. The shelter provides three meals every day, clothing, medical referral, information about jobs and education, school supplies, lists of resources, information on housing, individual counseling and support group opportunities.

Seniors and Persons with Disabilities
Applicant	Program	Description
ABLE 329.3922	Residential Program	The residential program assists adults with developmental disabilities in either a Group Home or Daily Living Support setting. Individuals are able to work on skills that are necessary for all levels of Independence.
Aging Services Inc. 321.3200	Homemaker/Chore Services	ASI offers homemaker/chore services to frail senior adults. This allows a senior to remain in their home of choice.
Among Friends 701.2121	Adult Care	Among Friends provides a safe and friendly place for adults with special needs who are limited in their access to the community; offering opportunities to make friends, to learn to have fun, and to have hope for a better tomorrow.
Full Circle 447.2955	DHS Assisted	Assists families by providing activities, meals, and health monitoring for their elderly loved ones in order to prevent nursing home placement.
Meals on Wheels 321.7272	Delivered Meals	Provides a hot nutritious meal to Norman’s senior, disabled, or ill residents who are in need. Also provides opportunities for community volunteers.
Thunderbird Clubhouse 321.7331	Nutrition/Wellness Expansion	Thunderbird Clubhouse provides nutritious meals to its’ mentally ill members to enhance nutritional levels. The members are involved in planning, shopping, cooking, serving and clean-up.

Strong and Safe Individuals & Families
Applicant	Program	Description
Central OK. Community Action 447.0832	Norman Transitional Housing Case Management	Provides transitional housing combined with supportive case management to homeless or potentially homeless individuals and families.
Health for Friends 329.4574	Dental Clinic	Provides education, referrals and dental care to the uninsured or underinsured persons in Norman.
Health for Friends 329.4161	General Medical	Provides routine medical services, urgent care medical services and health education to low income and uninsured individuals.
Health for Friends	Pharmacy	Provides an in-house pharmacy for low income and uninsured individuals to access medication at low or no cost.
Legal Aid 360.6631	Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma	Provides free, high-quality civil legal services to low income and elderly people in Oklahoma.
NAIC 321.0022	Individual and Family Services	Assesses and addresses the needs of individuals with substance abuse problems through counseling, education, family services and case management.
Transition House 360.7926	Community Outreach	Provides on-going socialization opportunities, support and crisis intervention for individuals with mental illness to successfully live in a community setting.
Transition House	Transitional Living	Provides treatment, education, linkage to benefits and support to assist individuals with mental illness as they transition from in-patient settings to community living.

Successful Children & Youth
Applicant	Program	Description
Bethesda 364.0333	Abuse Counseling	Provides therapeutic counseling and treatment services for sexually abused children and their non-offending caregiver.
Bethesda 364.0333	Outreach-Prevention	Presentations to young children and their caregivers demonstrate ways to prevent child abuse and teach children how to protect themselves from becoming victims.
Big Brothers/Big Sisters 364.3722	Mentoring	Provides one-to-one positive adult role models through a community-based and school-based mentoring program.
Bridges 579.9280	Student Services	Provides high school students who are living on their own with access to housing and basic services so they can graduate high school.
CASA 360.5295	CASA	Trains and supervises community volunteers who act as advocates for abused and neglected children who are wards of the juvenile court.
CCFI 364.1420	Healing & Preventing	Provides parent support and education, therapy for children who have been abused or neglected, support for foster and adoptive caregivers and short term respite care for children whose parents are in severe distress.
CCFI 364.1420	Neighborhood Centers	Provides an enriching out of school time program for youth and families, including special neighborhood events.
Community After School Program 366.5970	CATCH	A nutrition and physical education program that aims to increase nutritional knowledge and physical activity in its Elementary school participants.
Kaleidoscope 306.0052	Grief Support	Provides support groups for children and their families who have experienced a death of a family member
Mary Abbott Children 579.5800	Mary Abbott Children	Offers coordinated investigation and intervention services to child abuse victims and their non-offending family members in a child-friendly location.
NAIC 321.0022	Youth & Family Services	Assesses and addresses the individual needs of adolescents with substance abuse problems through counseling, education, case management and crisis intervention.
Parents Helping Parents 279.1221	Operation Parent Power	Provides education to parents on ways to prevent substance abuse in children and youth.