WCI Partner Directory
This directory serves as a resource for educators, service providers, community organizations, faith-based partners, and stakeholders who are committed to improving outcomes for children and families through collaboration and coordinated support.
The purpose of this directory is to:
- Increase awareness of available community resources and services.
- Support referrals between schools, families, and community organizations.
- Identify opportunities to address unmet needs facing children and families.
- Promote coordinated efforts to improve attendance, literacy, family engagement, health, and overall student success.
The information contained in this directory was provided directly by participating organizations through the WCI Partner Survey and is intended to reflect current services, contact information, and partnership opportunities as of July 2026. Organizations are encouraged to submit updates regularly to ensure information remains current and useful for families and community partners.
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WSU CLEAR supports children, families, and educators through literacy assessments, tutoring, academic support, summer learning, family programs, workshops, and educator professional development. Services are available through walk-ins, school and community referrals, and outreach events.
Contact: Kim Moody — kim.moody@wichita.edu
The Wichita Public Schools Foundation connects students and families with academic support, tutoring, literacy and mentoring programs, basic-needs assistance, and family engagement resources. It works with Washington, Spaght, Mueller, and Irving elementary schools and primarily serves as a referral and community-resource connector.
Contact: Brandt Wilson — bwilson5@usd259.net
Wichita Public Schools supports children and families through early learning, tutoring, literacy, mentoring, after-school and summer programs, and family engagement. WCI partner schools include Washington, Spaght, Mueller, Louverture, and Irving elementary schools and Little Early Childhood Center.
Contacts: Latonia Kennedy — lkennedy@usd259.net; Diane Albert, Board of Education — dalbert@usd259.net
Wichita Habitat for Humanity helps families and first-time homebuyers build long-term housing stability through housing assistance, homebuyer and budgeting education, resource navigation, workshops, and family engagement. Services are available through walk-ins, enrollment, outreach events, and virtual access.
Contacts: Danielle Johnson, Executive Director — danielle@wichitahabitat.org
United Way of the Plains connects community members with academic, youth, literacy, basic-needs, and resource-navigation services, including United Way 211. Families can connect through schools, community referrals, and outreach events.
Contact: Logan Bradshaw, Director of Community Impact — lbradshaw@unitedwayplains.org
Mental Health America of South-Central Kansas provides mental health care, family support, case management, basic-needs assistance, youth programs, mentoring, resource navigation, and community education. Services are available through walk-ins, school and community referrals, outreach events, and virtual access.
Contact: Hillary Zwetzig — hillary.zwetzig@mhasck.org
Kidzcope provides eight-week peer grief-support groups for children ages 3–18 and their caregivers. Families can access its mental health, family engagement, workshops, and support-group services through school or community referrals, enrollment, and outreach events.
Contact: Brenda Satterlee — bsatterlee@yahoo.com
Healthy Blue Kansas supports families through health and behavioral health services, transportation assistance, case management, resource navigation, and family engagement programs. Services are available through enrollment and virtual access.
Contact: Cierra Jones, Community Relations Coordinator II — cierra.jones@healthybluekansas.com
The Greater Wichita YMCA supports children and families through early learning, tutoring, literacy programs, child care, after-school and summer programs, recreation, health services, transportation support, and resource navigation. Services are available through walk-ins, referrals, enrollment, and virtual access.
GraceMed provides medical care, family support, case management, health services, and KanCare enrollment assistance for people of all ages. Services are available through walk-ins, school referrals, enrollment, outreach events, and virtual access.
Contacts: Juven Nava, Director of Community Outreach & Communications — jnava@gracemed.org; Andrew Truhlar-Godbey — agodbey@gracemed.org
Girls on the Run Heart of Kansas combines physical activity, confidence-building, and social-emotional learning through after-school, summer, recreation, and group-based programs. It serves elementary-aged children and their families through school and organizational referrals, enrollment, outreach, and virtual access.
Contacts: Christy Thomas — christy.thomas@girlsontherun.org; Camille Tangney — camille.tangney@girlsontherun.org
The City of Wichita’s Child Care Licensing program helps families access safe, licensed child care while providing regulatory oversight, compliance guidance, training, and technical assistance to local providers. Services are available through the local office, outreach events, and community referrals.
Contact: Tiffany Smith — tsmith@wichita.gov
The Boys & Girls Club provides academic support, literacy programming, and after-school and summer activities for elementary-aged students. Its youth development programs emphasize learning, recreation, and community engagement.
Learning Lab Wichita aims to be the home base for pioneers creating alternative K-12 education options. They created Learning Lab because learners need learning experiences tailored to their individual needs. Their professionals take pride in our culture of openness, where differences are celebrated, and innovation is at the forefront.
The PBS Kansas Cochener-Garvey Children’s Education & Discovery Center supports young children and families through literacy programs, early learning, educational media, hands-on learning resources, family activities, and community workshops. Families can participate through walk-in access and outreach events.
Contact: Lynn Woolf, Director of Education — lwoolf@kpts.org
Lively Minds provides enriching and interactive storytimes and literacy events for young children that create happy book memories and cultivate a love of reading. They also offer professional development and consulting services for early childhood professionals and librarians. Lively Minds specializes in language and literacy development, meaningful interactions, creative experiences and social-emotional literacy.
League 42, named in honor of the great Jackie Robinson, the first African-American in Major League Baseball, is a youth baseball league that serves children, ages 5-14, in athletics and education. Their games are played at historic McAdams Park in central Wichita, near 17th Street North and Wabash. The Bright Lights initiative offers free after school education support in math and literacy for League 42 players, grades K-8.
Child Start supports children ages 0–5, families, and child care providers through early learning, family support, literacy programming, resource navigation, and professional development. Families can access services through walk-ins, referrals, enrollment, outreach events, and virtual options.
Contacts: Mandi Waugh — mwaugh@childstart.org; Madison Price — mprice1015@hotmail.com; Jen Radtke — jradtke@childstart.org; Ann Gascon — agascon@childstart.org; Tanya Bulluck, Executive Director — tbulluck@childstart.org
Kansas Children’s Service League supports families, parents, guardians, and community members through family support, child care, basic-needs assistance, resource navigation, workshops, and trauma-informed services. Families can connect through walk-ins, school and community referrals, and outreach events.
Contacts: Rachal Harper — rharper@kcsl.org; Nicole Booze — nbooze@kcsl.org; Cheyenne Lee-Smith — clee-smith@kcsl.org
The TOP Early Learning Center delivers a high-quality early learning experience to children living in poverty, providing them with the tools needed for emotional, academic, and lifelong success. Their goal is to support working families by offering full day/year-round learning opportunities to TOP kids, including a variety of fun educational activities and programs that will prepare our students for a successful school experience.
The Educational Opportunity Center helps adults begin or continue their education through college admissions assistance, financial aid guidance, career counseling, educational advising, resource navigation, and job-training referrals. It serves adult learners, including people pursuing GED completion, technical education, or career advancement.
Contacts: Wilma Holloway — wilma.holloway@wichita.edu; Travis Feeney — travis.feeney@wichita.edu
Home Visiting is an educational home visitation program that provides prenatal and post-partum support to primary caregivers and their families in Sedgwick County at no out-of-pocket expense for participants.
The SCECCC is a leader in strengthening early childhood services and systems in Sedgwick County. The SCECCC facilitates relationships with early childhood communities in Sedgwick County. Connected The SCECCC supports and empowers parents as the best advocate for their child. The SCECCC is proactive in promoting early childhood services. The SCECCC influences change that impacts young children and their families at the local, regional, state, and national levels.
DCCCA provides social and community services that improve safety, health, and well-being. They support families through a variety of services including foster care, adoption, post adoption, family preservation, family first prevention services and therapeutic family foster homes. DCCCA’s Child Placing Agency provides foster care and adoption services in Kansas, supporting families through every step of the process.
Envision’s Child Development Center (ECDC) specializes in serving children who are blind or visually impaired while welcoming all children to learn, grow, and thrive together. Their inclusive classrooms, designed for children ages 0-5, foster curiosity, confidence, and a love for lifelong learning.
Contacts: Teresa Houston, Executive Director — teresa.houston@envisionus.com; Hallee Canfield-Jones — hcanfield@envisionus.com
The Treehouse provides faith-based family support, case management, child care and early learning services, family engagement activities, workshops, and parent and trauma-informed education. Families access services through referrals from other organizations.
Contact: Hannah Doom — programs@wichitatreehouse.org
Rainbows United enhances the lives of children with special needs and their families by bringing together community resources and providing customized services. Rainbows provides many vital services for children with special needs, birth through age 21, and their families. They are on the leading edge of implementing the latest, most effective therapies for children with developmental delays.
The professionals at Connecting Point provide information and referrals for young children, answer questions, and share schedules for monthly developmental screening clinics. A wealth of information awaits you through Connecting Point. A project of Sedgwick County Early Childhood Coordinating Council.
Wichita State Connect serves as a university gathering place for campus experiences for preK-12 students and their families, particularly among underrepresented and underserved communities in the Shocker Neighborhood, offering transformative applied learning experiences and college readiness programs for students.
Saint Mark United Methodist Church gathers to worship God focused on providing a welcoming community, nurturing spiritual growth, reaching and transforming lives through generous servant leadership.
Holy Savior Catholic Academy serves children through eighth grade and their families with faith-based education, academic and literacy support, early learning, mentoring, after-school and summer programs, recreation, family engagement, and resource navigation. Services are provided through the school.
Contact: Dr. Delia Shropshire — dshropshire@holy-savior.org
Urban Preparatory Academy’s mission is to provide students with a world-class school that gives students the knowledge, skills, character, and disposition to meet and exceed Kansas State Common Core Learning Standards and prepares students for college and career.
The Pando Initiative connects with students to help them engage and thrive in education and their future. They strive to ensure every student in our community graduates, ready for their next stage.
Heroes Academy utilizes a role model approach to empower youth to help build strong communities by providing character-building experiences for middle and high school-age youth with programs focusing on the education, opportunity, investment, and development.
Prime Fit Youth Foundation is dedicated to building stronger, healthier communities by supporting youth facing significant life challenges. They focus on empowering young people through mentoring, access to resources, and skill development so they can thrive and contribute meaningfully to society.
TBC SMART provides academic and literacy support, summer enrichment, and college and career readiness programming for children and families. Programs are available through walk-in and open access.
Contact: Tiffinie Irving — tiffinieirving@gmail.com
Urban Preparatory Academy provides faith-based K–8 education, academic support, summer programming, family engagement, and community resource assistance. Students and families can access services through the school’s walk-in and outreach activities.
Contact: Chris Brown, Community Outreach & Family Support — cbrown@upacademywichita.org
Wichita Public Library supports children, families, and community members through literacy and early learning programs, after-school and summer activities, recreation, family engagement, workshops, and resource navigation. Programs are available through open access and outreach events.
Contacts: Jaime Nix, Executive Director — jnix@wichita.gov; Erin Downey Howerton, Youth Services Manager — ehowerton@wichita.gov
