Recovery is personal. But no one should have to pursue it alone.
Across Wichita, leaders, organizations, advocates, service providers, and people with lived experience are coming together to strengthen the way our city responds to addiction and mental health.
The Addiction & Mental Health Network exists to connect those leaders — creating relationships across organizations and sectors so we can learn from one another, strengthen what is already working, identify gaps, and build a healthier, more restorative Wichita together.
Because when people are seen, valued, supported, and connected to community, transformation is possible.
A NETWORK BUILT AROUND PEOPLE
Addiction and mental health touch families, workplaces, neighborhoods, churches, schools, and organizations across our city.
No single organization can address something this complex alone.
That is why this network brings together people who are walking alongside individuals in some of their hardest moments with leaders who can help shape systems, expand access, share resources, and create stronger pathways toward recovery.
It is what Lead Wichita means when we talk about building networks of leaders for the good of the city.
From a Recovery Hub to a Recovery Coalition
What Collaboration Can Look Like
Something important is happening within Wichita's recovery community.
The Wichita Recovery Hub has become more than a place for programs and support. Through the Wichita Recovery Coalition, it is helping create a larger table where recovery advocates, service providers, community leaders, and people connected to recovery can build relationships and work together.
Coalition gatherings create space to connect, share resources, discuss challenges, and collaborate on initiatives that strengthen recovery across Wichita.
That shift matters.
Instead of organizations doing good work alongside one another without always being connected, leaders have an opportunity to know one another, learn from one another, and tackle shared challenges together.
It is a picture of what we believe can happen across every Lead Wichita network:
Inspire leaders. Connect communities. Transform Wichita together.
PEOPLE LEADING THE WAY
Brendan Steinacher
Wichita Recovery Hub + Wichita Recovery Coalition
Some of the most important work in a city happens when someone is willing to bring people to the same table.
Brendan Steinacher is helping do exactly that through the Wichita Recovery Hub and Wichita Recovery Coalition, connecting leaders and organizations across the recovery community around a shared desire to see people flourish.
The work isn't about one organization having every answer. It's about creating the relationships that allow Wichita's recovery community to become stronger together.
Carrie Corliss
Founder, Wichita Recovery Hub
Carrie Corliss helped create a place where recovery could be supported through something every person needs: community.
Today, that vision continues to grow as the Wichita Recovery Hub and the leaders around it build connections across organizations, experiences, and traditional divides.
Wichita is better when leaders are willing to work together around difficult issues — and when people experiencing addiction or pursuing recovery are treated with dignity, hope, and belonging.
To change a reality, we first have to understand it.
Addiction and mental health aren't abstract issues. They affect real people, real families, and real neighborhoods across Wichita.
The State of Our City dashboard brings together local data around mental health, substance use, mortality, treatment resources, and how these realities are changing over time.
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Deaths by Drugs
But a statistic isn't the end of the story.
It is an invitation to understand what our neighbors are experiencing — and to ask what becomes possible when leaders across Wichita respond together.
SEE RECOVERY DIFFERENTLY
Recovery is more than a statistic. It is a human story.
SOBER invites audiences into stories of recovery, struggle, connection, and hope - creating an opportunity to better understand addiction while seeing the people behind the issue.
A Wichita screening creates more than an opportunity to watch a film. It gives our community a reason to gather, listen, have honest conversations, and consider what it looks like to build a city where people pursuing recovery know they don't have to do it alone.
Oct. 28, 2026 | 5:30PM | Wichita State University CAC Theater
Register for the sober screening →
Upcoming Events
October 28, 2026
SOBER – Film Screening
5:30 p.m. – SOBER Reception | 6:30 p.m. – Movie Screening and Q&A
Wichita State University, CAC Theater
1845 Fairmount St, Wichita, Kansas
The Phoenix, Lead Wichita and Suspenders4Hope invite you to join us for an exclusive advanced screening of SOBER. The new, yet-to-be-released feature-length documentary follows Phoenix staff, volunteers, and members in Los Angeles who have risen from the ashes of addiction, proving that recovery is about far more than getting sober—it's about reclaiming joy, strength, purpose, and connection.
Food and Mocktails Provided
October 20, 2026 | 2:00–3:30 PM
Wichita Recovery Coalition Meet-Up
Wichita Recovery Hub
120 S. Ida St., Wichita
Recovery advocates, organizations, community leaders, service providers, volunteers, and others who care about recovery in Wichita are invited to connect, share resources, and collaborate around opportunities to strengthen our recovery community.
You don't have to have all the answers.
You just have to be willing to come to the table.
There’s a place for you in this work.
You may work in behavioral health. You may lead a business, nonprofit, church, school, or neighborhood organization. You may have lived experience with addiction or recovery. Or you may simply care deeply about the people of Wichita.
Transformation doesn't require everyone to do the same thing.
It requires people to bring what they have, build relationships across divides, and lead where they are.
Wichita is better when we lead together.