Tulsa Boys’ Home is hosting a Centennial Homecoming Celebration to honor all those who have had a part in the mission. The Centennial Homecoming Celebration will be October 14 from 1-6 p.m. 1 at Tulsa Boys’ Home.  It’s a free of charge and open to the public.  TBH also conducts Hope Tours as an opportunity to raise community awareness.

Tulsa Boys’ Home helps 11- to 18-year-old boys with emotional, behavioral and substance abuse problems. TBH  is at 2727 S. 137th W. Avenue in Sand Springs.

The Tulsa Boys’ Home mission has always been “to provide the highest quality residential care for young boys needing placement outside their home, for the purpose of developing well-adjusted, responsible adults, and strengthening the family.”

Since 1918, TBH has cared for more than 13,000 boys from all 77 counties in Oklahoma.

Established as an orphanage in a two-story house in downtown Tulsa, leaders of the First Presbyterian Church and the Downtown Rotary Club were instrumental in its establishment. Its first two boys were found sleeping in trash boxes in an alley. TBH grew dramatically during the first few years, and by 1924, TBH became a charter member of the Community Fund that evolved into the Tulsa Area United Way. 

In August of 1979, TBH moved to its present location, a 160-acre site in west Tulsa County in Sand Springs. TBH is now recognized and nationally accredited as a residential treatment facility for boys with emotional and behavioral problems by the Council on Accreditation, headquartered in New York City.  It was the first and remains the largest such treatment for boys facility in Oklahoma.

Each year, TBH delivers residential services to approximately 140 boys and their families and 64 boys live on the campus on any given day.  Forty residents are placed by DHS, and the other 24 are privately placed by parents or legal guardians for substance-abuse treatment.  For more information, visit www.tulsaboyshome.org.