There are many obstacles you might face during your college career. The CARE Team, its composite offices and the University as a whole are here to support you and help you overcome these obstacles, whatever they may be.
Campus Resources
Below is a list of on-campus resources. If you don't see what you need below, contact CARE Team at 316-978-3149 or care@wichita.edu for more information.
Community Resources
- Psychology Today: using your zip code students can find support groups, treatment centers, therapist, and psychiatrists, and articles about mental health
- NAMI (national Alliance of mental illness): you can find information for the national hotline, crisis hot line (local), and text line. They also offer resources guides and supports!
- Kansas Support Groups: you can locate various types of support groups in the area
- Eating Disorder Supports: NEDA Feeding Hope - EDCare Nourishing Success - Eating Recovery Center
- Better Help: Online therapy services
- Ability Point: Adult case management
- MHA Mental Health Association: Adult services and case management
- STOP Suicide ICT: Resources for SI, prevention, and training
- Soul Shop: Religious supports for SI
- GoodRx: helps get medications
- LGBTQ Health care
- Hunter Health: low income health care in the community
- Guadalupe Clinic: low income health care in the community
- Project Access
- Cairn Health
- ICT Street Team
Laundry Love - Laundry Love washes the clothes and bedding of low/no income families and person(s)
across the US. We brighten the lives of thousands of people through love, dignity,
and detergent by partnering with diverse groups and laundromats nationwide. Find a location
Project Laundry - Project Laundry exists to ease the financial burden...one load at a time. Starting in 2017, Project Laundry currently serves the Wichita, KS area and plans to partner with other like minded groups and organizations to expand into more locations in the city. Even more important than receiving clean clothes, is the love and support our volunteers share with each person while serving. Find a location
Open Door’s Head to Toe Hygiene Pantry will be open the first Wednesday of each month from 9:00 am – 11:45 am and the second Wednesday of each month from 1:00 pm – 3:45 pm. - 2130 E. 21st Street North
The Kansas Food Bank deploys its Mobile Hygiene Pantry the third Saturday of every month. Guests receive a prepacked bag containing laundry detergent, toilet paper, deodorant, shampoo and body wash. In addition, there are choice items such as baby wipes, diapers – baby & adult, feminine hygiene items and razors.
We distribute at The Lord’s Diner, 2825 S Hillside, Wichita KS
Distribution time is 9 am to 10:30 am.
Guests will be asked to provide their address and number of household members. Limit of 1 visit per household.
For more information please contact us at 316-265-3663.
- Department of Children and Families (DCF): Resources for jobs, childcare, abuse, fraud and more
- Trust Women: birth control and other reproductive supports and services
- Planned Parenthood
- Project Laundry: Pop-up locations for people to do laundry
- Upward Bound
- Shower Up: Mobile Showers and Personal Care
- Single Parent Assistance
- Kansas Food Bank
- Salvation Army: They also have other supports more than just food!
- The Lords Dinner: you can get free meals for lunch and dinner, and they have food trucks
- Kansas Food Source Lists: you can find food locations in the Kansas area by county
- Health & Wellness Coalition of Wichita
- Harbor House (catholic charities): They offer support to people experiencing domestic violence.
- HumanKind Ministries: Shelters for homeless individuals.
- URM (Union Rescue Mission): Shelter that is close to campus
- Wichita Children’s Home: Supports for youths (18-24) for housing/shelters, outreach programs, hotlines, and more!
- Kansas Shelter List: A list of the various shelter locations
- Benefits Finder: Take a questionnaire about what you need, and it helps to find supports for you OR you can choose from their list
- Find Help: you can take this anywhere in the country. Using your zip code you can find housing, medical, financial, mental health, clothing, and more! (check it out!!)
- United Way of the Plains: you can also call 211
- Children’s Mercy: Just a list of some numbers to call for resources
- Resources Guide
Publications
- Off-Campus Housing Safety (PDF) – Updated 8/18/21
- Brochure, CARE Team
- Grief Handout – General
- Grief Handout – Students
- Grief Handout – Faculty
- Comunity of Care Folder
Suggested Reading
Learn more about some of the issues students are facing.
- Getting Straight A's In College Is Not Worth Failing Your Mental Health
- Academic Resilience Resource Library
- Safe and Effective Messaging and Reporting (about Suicide)
- Potential Warning Signs of Homelessness
- Nearly 1 in 7 US kids and teens has a mental health condition, and half go untreated, study says
- Higher Poverty Tied to Increased Youth Suicide Risk, Study Shows