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Community Resources

Community Resource Booklet

cover art for the KBEN Community Resource BookletWe have created a Community Resource Booklet for Black families! The 2023 Community Resource Booklet highlights more than 40 organizations and businesses that provide support/services to Black families in Kansas and Missouri.

Download the 2023 Community Resource Booklet!

If you would like to be included in the next resource booklet update, please complete this form.


KBEN event sponsorship image with QR code - Are you having an event that supports parents and babies or addresses gaps in maternal, paternal, and infant health and well-being? If yes, KBEN & Healthy Blue can partner with you to support the event! Event Sponsorship

Are you having an event that supports parents and babies or addresses gaps in maternal, paternal, and infant health and well-being? If yes, KBEN & Healthy Blue can partner with you to support the event! 

REQUEST EVENT SPONSORSHIP


Parent Gathering Circles (Virtual)

Parent Gathering Circles Meetup Flyer

Through a collaboration between Kansas Birth Justice Society and the Kansas Birth Equity Network, we've created a brand new online space for Black and brown parents in Kansas to connect, vent, talk through our common experiences, and support each other. We'll discuss a new hot topic each week in this private community space that was created just for us.

Join us online from anywhere you are on Wednesdays at 6:30 pm CST!

Sign up for the Parent Gathering Circles


Black Dope Dads KCK Meetup Registration Black Dope Dads Meetup flyer with meeting information. Meetups are held on the first Friday of the month at 6:30 p.m. CST at 2100 N 13th St, Kansas City, KS 66104. Dinner will be provided for those who attend.

Join other Dope Black Dads for a stigma-free conversation on maternal health, infant health, and mental health awareness for Black men! Meetups are held on the first Friday of the month at 6:30 p.m. CST at 2100 N 13th St, Kansas City, KS 66104. Dinner will be provided for those who attend.

Sign Up for Black Dope Dads KCK Meetup


Additional Resources

Community Resources for the Kansas City Area

Organization

Phone Number

cap4kids (816) 241-3780
First Tee- Greater Kansas City (913) 648-7177
The Help KC (816) 227-6020
Keeler Women's Center (913) 689-9375
Native Essence Birth Doula (816) 808-4500
ShelterKC (816) 421-7643
Women's Community Y (913) 682-6404
Women's Employment Network KC (816) 822-8083
Zero to One (816) 600-4932

Organization

Phone Number

City Union Mission Family Center (816) 474-4599
Crossroads Shelter (816) 252-3200
Hillcrest Transitional Housing (816) 994-6934
Shelter KC (816) 421-7643
Sheffield Place (816) 483-9927
S.A Johnson County Family Lodge (Olathe) (913) 829-0578
ReStart Homeless Service Center (816) 842-1199

Organization

Phone Number

Bridge of Hope KC (913) 499-6741
Cross Lines Community Outreach (913) 281-3388
Grace United Community Ministries (816) 231-5745
Harvesters - The Community Food Network (785) 861-7700
Metro Lutheran Ministry (816) 931-0027
NourishKC (816) 561-8920
Seton Center (816) 231-3955

Organization

Phone Number

Caritas Clinic (913) 321-2626
Family Health Care KC (913) 722-3100
MOMs Clinic (913) 772-3100
Homeroom Health (816) 421-7643
Jay Doc (913) 387-1202
KC Care Health Center (816) 753-5144
Mercy Health Free Clinic (816) 763-1666
Mercy and Truth (913) 621-0074
Mercy and Truth Shawnee Clinic (913) 248-9965
Samuel U. Rogers Health Center (816) 474-4920
Sojourner Health Clinic (816) 842-3484
Swope Health Wyandotte (816) 922-7600
Turner House Children's Clinic (913) 342-2552
Uzazi Village (816) 541-3718
Vibrant Health (Central) (913) 342-2552

Organization

Phone Number

My KC Doula (208) 360-4188
Peachy Births (913) 703-3252
The Baobab Tree (816) 791-7239
Uzazi Village (816) 541-3718
Welcome baby KC (816) 729-4415

Organization

Phone Number

Clinical Services Wyandotte County (913) 573-8855
Healthy Families (913) 573-8855
Kansas Children's Services League (913) 371-2220

Organization

Phone Number

Black Nurses Association (310) 589-3233
Diversity Kansas (913) 436-7891
South KC Chamber of Commerce (816) 221-2424
NAACP (913) 481-9920
United Way (816) 472-4289
Community Resources for the Wichita Area

Organization

Phone Number

Sistah's Can We Talk

(316) 806-2280

Organization

Phone Number

Family Crisis Center

(316) 263-7501

Harbor House Hotline

(316) 263-3000

Humankind Homeless Shelters

(316) 264-8051

Salvation Army

(316) 263-2196

Wichita Homeless Mission

(316) 267-1213

Wichita Children's Home

(316) 684-6581

Organization

Phone Number

Bread of Life

(316) 689-6866

Catholic Charities

(316) 264-8344

Kansas Food Bank

(316) 265-3663

The Lord's Diner

(316) 266-4966

Westside Good Neighbor Center

(316) 942-7349

Organization

Phone Number

Grace Med

(316) 866-2000

Hunter Health

(316) 262-2415

Organization

Phone Number

Special Deliveries Doula (316) 821-8173
Wichita Birth Justice Society (316) 500-0629
Wichita Doula (316) 302-4484
Wichita Family Birth Support (316) 300-7529

Organization

Phone Number

Healthy Babies

(316) 660-7433

Kansas Children's Service League

(316) 942-4261

Open Arms Wichita

(316) 721-5675

Rainbows United

(316) 260- 4673

Organization

Phone Number

Center for Economic Development and Business Research

(316) 293-8441

Wichita Urban Professionals

(316) 293-8441

Birth Equity Education and Advocacy
Kansas Birth Equity Network

Sharla Smith, Ph.D., MPH
Director
ssmith37@kumc.edu
913-945-7934