Sunbeam Family Services history

The Community Chest, a predecessor of the United Way, was a very helpful source of support in 1923 as well as the Junior League and many well known leaders in the Oklahoma City community.

Sunbeam has been a proud United Way Partner Agency since 1924.

With the problem of frame houses and fires, a brick building was built and opened in 1930 to house the Sunbeam Home.

1974 Sunbeam was one of the first organizations in the nation to run the Caregiver Fundamental Program.

2001 Sunbeam opened a 10-bed emergency shelter for senior citizens that are victims of elder abuse and persons made homeless by catastrophic medical problems.

2002 Sunbeam was selected by the Oklahoma Department of Human Services to become the sole provider of emergency foster care in Oklahoma and Tulsa counties.

2003 The Caregiver Fundamentals program was expanded from support for individuals who are caring for an aging family member to include services for grandparents raising grandchildren.

2004 Sunbeam was awarded a grant to administer the Early Head Start Program in Oklahoma County.

2009 Sunbeam begins operating Oklahoma City’s Educare, a research based program focused on school-readiness for poor children and their families.

2015 Sunbeam moved into its new home at 1100 NW 14th Street in Oklahoma City.

2017 Sunbeam begins the innovative Infant Early Childhood Mental Health initiative, funded partially by the Arnall Family Foundation.