The Wichita Multi-Agency Center on East 21st Street North coordinates day services and bridge-housing referrals through United Way of the Plains, Inter-Faith Ministries, and area shelter operators.
Wichita centers its bridge-housing response at the Multi-Agency Center, a hub on East 21st Street North operated jointly by City of Wichita, Sedgwick County, United Way of the Plains, and Inter-Faith Ministries. The center offers daytime services, intake assessment, and referrals to year-round shelters such as the Inter-Faith Ministries Lord Lord overnight shelter, Salvation Army emergency shelter, and Union Rescue Mission. Bridge-housing slots accept stays of generally 30 to 90 days while case managers work toward permanent placement. Kansas HB 2717 from 2018 prohibits sanctuary policies, but local shelter intake itself remains an apolitical service-delivery function.
Bridge-housing residents who violate program rules such as substance use, violence, or repeated curfew breaches can be discharged. Wichita has no general criminal penalty for refusing shelter offers, only for trespass or obstruction.
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