Tulsa Boys Home

Founded in 1918, Tulsa Boys’ Home began 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 served more than 130 troubled boys from Oklahoma in its first two years. Each year, TBH delivers residential services to approximately 180 boys and their families. We serve 64 boys a day. In our 95 year history, many of these boys have learned to lead productive lives, and credit TBH for breaking the cycle of poverty, abuse, and neglect that is often passed on from generation to generation without help. Therefore, our good work is multiplied through countless families and the children of the children that once lived, and healed, at TBH.