Wichita - Mental Health Hotlines
If you or someone you love is struggling, you don’t have to sort out the system before you can ask for help. Call the Mental Health Hotline at 866-903-3787 to talk through what’s going on and get pointed toward mental health support in Wichita, any hour of the day or night.
If this is an emergency
If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 911.
If you are in emotional distress or thinking about suicide, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, available 24/7.
In Sedgwick County, COMCARE answers a 24-hour number at 316-660-7500 and takes walk-ins at 635 N. Main.
The Mental Health Hotline is an information and referral service. It is not a substitute for emergency services.
Asking for help is hard, and the searching that comes first can be harder than the call. Maybe you’ve been holding something on your own for months, or maybe you’re worried about someone you care about and don’t know where to start. You don’t need a diagnosis or a referral to use anything on this page.
In Wichita, most roads lead to the same building first. COMCARE runs the Community Crisis Center at 635 N. Main, and it takes both phone calls and walk-ins around the clock at 316-660-7500. If getting there isn’t possible, that same number sends out the Mobile Crisis Unit, which pairs a therapist with a case manager and comes to you. And if a few hours of steadying isn’t enough, the twelve-bed stabilization unit on East Morris is a real step short of a hospital stay.
Dialing 988 works too, and in Kansas it stays in Kansas. Calls are answered by Headquarters Kansas, so the person you reach knows what actually exists here. Cost is a fair worry to have first, since roughly one in eight working-age adults in Wichita has no health coverage. That runs well above the Kansas figure, and it’s worth knowing that the Mental Health Association of South Central Kansas takes Medicaid, Medicare and most private plans, and that mental health insurance coverage reaches further than most people expect.
If what’s happening at home is part of why you’re reading this, the Wichita Family Crisis Center answers at 316-267-7233 every hour of the year, and everything it offers is free. Whether you’re calling for yourself or for someone else, the Mental Health Hotline can help you work out which of these fits, at 866-903-3787. More Kansas mental health resources are gathered on the state page.
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Where to Get Help in Wichita
Some of these are for the worst night of your life. Others are for an ordinary Tuesday when you can’t face the week, and that counts too. If you’re not sure what happens when you dial, here’s what 988 does and who answers it.
Mental Health in Wichita, by the Numbers
Three numbers for Wichita, from the most recent round of CDC city-level modeling. If part of you has been wondering whether it’s just you, it isn’t.
Figures come from the CDC PLACES 2025 release, which models city-level estimates from 2023 BRFSS survey responses for adults 18 and over. The widest gap between Wichita and Kansas as a whole is health coverage, at 12.9 percent uninsured against 8.4 percent statewide, followed by routine checkups at 73.3 percent against 77.7. Model-based estimates describe a population, not any one person in it.
Asking for help takes more than it should when you’re already worn down, and you shouldn’t have to do the sorting on your own. The Mental Health Hotline can talk through what’s going on and help you find the right next step in Wichita, whatever time it is. Call 866-903-3787 when you’re ready.