Healing Towards Wellness' Impact in Kansas City

Healing Towards Wellness focuses on providing affordable and accessible mental health care in Kansas City by providing lower cost therapy options and creating a wrap-around team for clients needing support around their emotional, physical, and nutritional health.



Through research, we learned that:

Kansas had the 10th highest suicide rate in the nation for youths age 15-24 and the 11th highest for early adolescents age 10-14 in 2016-2020

and
The Kansas suicide death rate increased 75% from 2001 to 2018.
Kansas and Missouri in the top ten lowest ranking states around mental health.
  • The cost for therapy is high in Kansas and Missouri
  • Cost of living is expensive, including groceries, meaning mental health/therapy often takes the back seat when it comes to priorities
  • There is a lack of accessibility to services (telehealth has helped address this gap)
  • There are not enough hospital beds at any given time
  • Kansas City does not have an eating disorder residential facility even though we have the higher eating disorder rates int he nation.
  • Eating disorders among University of Kansas students have almost doubled within the past three years
Since Healing Towards Wellness' conception, we have grown to serve our community more each year, as a community-driven, non-profit mental wellness agency.

We are proud of our accomplishments and the milestones we have reached, including:

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