Tulsa Mayor Tours service agency for homeless, praises new outreach around bus station

BeHeard Movement, offering showers and laundry services for the homeless, helps the City with the issue of homeless people congregating by the downtown bus station.

Thursday, August 7th 2025, 2:21 pm

By: Emory Bryan

Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols w Emily Hall & Evan Dougoud

Tulsa, Oklahoma -

Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols toured the site for the "BeHeard Movement," a homeless service agency now taking on extra clients, with MetroLink running two shuttles a day between there and the downtown bus station.

BeHeard Movement Assisting Tulsa with Homeless Services

After a growing problem with crime around 4th and Denver, the City recently placed large boulders along the sidewalk where homeless people often congregated, but the gatherings continue.

The City has said the boulders are an initial step of an undefined art project along 4th Street.

The Demand for showers and hygiene is growing

Nichols toured BeHeard, near Sheridan on Admiral, where homeless people are able to take showers, get haircuts, and do laundry. Evan Dougoud, the Director of BeHeard, said the charity has the capacity for about 75 showers a day, but the demand is greater.

The group recently expanded to Oklahoma City, with a mobile shower trailer, while in Tulsa, the group operates at a semi-permanent site behind a church.

Emory Bryan

Emory Bryan is a general assignment reporter for News On 6. He began his news career covering the school board for his hometown radio station and worked on the newspaper staff in college before making the switch to television. Emory joined the News On 6 team in 1994.