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Family Resources

Raising Kids is Hard. Your Community is Here to Help.

Every family struggles at times. But you don’t have to go through them alone.

Faith communities across Wichita are eager to provide relational support, resources, and tools to help you overcome challenges and thrive. Whether you’re facing a short-term crisis and need temporary help or are looking for long-term support, we’re here for you.

No matter what your family is going through, it doesn’t have to be a lonely struggle. Reach out today to connect.

Find Support By Category

Whatever your family is facing, trusted organizations are here to help.

Parenting

Support

Every family needs support sometimes. Find trusted organizations that offer parenting education, mentoring, advocacy, and guidance to help families grow stronger together.

Changing the lives of young unwed fathers and other youths by breaking the cycle of poverty through compassionate programming designed to feed the soul, educate the mind, and cement the father/child relationship.

We’re helping Kansas grow stronger, happier families.

Providing comprehensive and meaningful engagement with families in need. Offering assistance, resources, emotional and spiritual support during challenging times is crucial, and our focus is also helping families struggling with involvement in the foster care system.

From our office in Wichita, KS, we offer programs aimed at keeping kids out of foster care and supporting families as they care for youth who have been removed from their homes.

Mental and Behavioral

Heatlh

Emotional well-being is essential for the whole family. Connect with compassionate providers offering counseling, behavioral health services, and trauma-informed support.

DCCCA provides social and community services that improve the safety, health, and well-being of those we serve.

HopeNet is a faith-based nonprofit organization transforming lives through coaching and counseling.

Crisis

Help

When life feels overwhelming, help is available. These organizations provide immediate support and connect families with the resources they need to move forward.

Safe Families for Children seeks to bring the church and community together to keep children safe and families together.

United Way 211 is a free, confidential service that can connect you to a wide range of resources and services across Kansas

Housing and Basic

Needs

Every family deserves a safe place to call home. Explore resources that provide emergency shelter, housing stability, and assistance with life’s essential needs.

Children 1st is a social service nonprofit organization based in Kansas. Their mission is to support students by creating a safe and empowering environment that helps them stay in school, thrive academically, and achieve success in life.

Since 1943, Catholic Charities has provided basic needs, stability and hope to individuals and families in crisis across Wichita, South Central and Southeast Kansas.

Empowering families to overcome homelessness and housing insecurity.

Honoring the God-given dignity of each person, StepStone serves neighbors facing domestic violence, housing instability, hunger, and hardships with safety, support, and a path forward.StepStone is a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph Mission Network.

Foster Care, Kinship,

Adoption

Whether you’re fostering, adopting, or caring for a child through kinship, you don’t have to navigate the journey alone. Discover organizations that offer training, encouragement, and practical support every step of the way.

Providing comprehensive and meaningful engagement with families in need. Offering assistance, resources, emotional and spiritual support during challenging times is crucial, and our focus is also helping families struggling with involvement in the foster care system.

We bring hope to the foster care system by strengthening families, activating churches, and empowering communities.

Kansas Kids Belong, in partnership with the Care for Every Family initiative, is launching the Foster Friendly App in Wichita to connect Sedgwick County foster families with businesses, faith communities and community groups who are coming together to ensure they are seen, valued and supported.

We have witnessed the struggle of navigating the child and family wellbeing system in Kansas. Families often are doing the best they can with the knowledge and resources they have access to. We know that it is difficult to know where to start, and it is our honor to assist with local resource connections.

Mentoring

A caring mentor can make a lasting difference in a child’s life. Connect with organizations that provide encouragement, guidance, and positive relationships to help children and teens grow with confidence.

For more than three decades, our mentoring program has matched committed Christian adults with our community’s kids and young people who need someone to look up to, individualized attention, and more adults committed to their future.

Pregnancy & Young

Children

Whether you’re expecting, parenting a young child, or exploring your options, caring support is available. Find trusted organizations that provide free services, education, and encouragement for growing families.

A Better Choice provides a variety of free services, so you can make an informed and empowered choice for your unplanned pregnancy.

Facing an unexpected pregnancy? We can help.

The Treehouse offers mothers and babies a brighter future through sharing God’s love, basic necessities, education, and genuine personal care.

Legal

Aid

Legal challenges can feel overwhelming, but you don’t have to face them alone. Find organizations that offer legal guidance, advocacy, and practical support to help protect your family’s rights and navigate the road ahead.

Kansas Legal Services (KLS) is a statewide non-profit corporation dedicated to helping low-income Kansans meet their basic needs by providing crucial legal and mediation services. As the primary legal aid organization in Kansas, KLS ensures equal access to justice for the most vulnerable citizens.

Child-Serving Professionals

Do you work at a child welfare agency, pregnancy center, school district, or non-profit organization with proximity to the needs of families in our community? Churches across Wichita stand ready to support you and the families you serve.

Join THE Movement.

Build Thriving Families and a Stronger Community.

Everyone’s contribution, large or small, brings our whole community closer to our goal of reducing the need for foster care and bringing children and families into a circle of care and hope.

Show you care.

Everyone can do something.