Wichita Childrens Home

Programs: Shelter and foster care - the home serves children and youth from infancy to age 21, as the only agency to provide emergency and temporary care for abused, neglected, or abandoned children in sedgwick county. The children's home provides safe environments that allow children the opportunity to begin healing from their trauma. Children and youth may be admitted by law enforcement officers, social workers, parents and the youth themselves. The residential departments provide shelter services for youth from 13 to 17 years of age. Our family foster care department has identified licensed families in the community for care of children, ages 0 to 17 years. The staff secure unit (ssu) is specifically designed to assess and meet the immediate needs of children traumatized by human trafficking. Children servedfamily foster care 0-17 year old 637teen shelter 13-17 year old 851ssu unit 13-17 year old 40 total 1,528

prevention and transitional - our bridges residential program serves teens and young adults, ages 16 to 23, who are runaway, homeless or in state's custody. The goal is to help these bridges participants reach self sufficiency. Many of these teens and young adults have children of their own. Our street outreach services (sos) program is designed to take resources directly to at risk youths on the street. Sos staff provide access to a comprehensive array of services such as crisis intervention, counseling, shelter, health services and runaway programs. Bridges transitional living program total residents in phase 1 47 total residents in phase 2 38 phase 2 moms with children 15 children of bridges parents 17 total 117street outreach services (homeless and runaway youth)safe place rescues 241youth receiving danger/violence prevention class 1,677youth attending sos support group at oz 681youth attending drop in at oz 268youth calling reporting homelessness 69