Recovery from addiction. Recovery from homelessness. Recovery from hunger, isolation, and the belief that no one is coming. Each service on this page addresses one dimension of a whole person. None of them work without the others. All of them are free. Jesus is at the center of every one.
Clinical treatment addresses the diagnosis. Peer recovery coaching addresses the person — wherever they are, whatever brought them there. Certified Peer Recovery Coaches with lived experience walk alongside clients from crisis to stability in a way that no clinical service can replicate.
RHSH's peer coaches are Certified Peer Recovery Coaches (CPRCs) with documented lived experience. They provide individual and group coaching that is faith-based, non-clinical, and consistent — the same coach assigned through 90 days of whole-person support. Not a rotating staff. A relationship.
A client contacts Restoring Wichita — by phone, referral, or walk-in. Within 24 hours a Certified Peer Recovery Coach makes contact. Coaching begins immediately — individual sessions weekly, group sessions available, faith community connection offered. The same coach stays assigned through 90 days, then transitions to follow-up check-ins.
Garrett Robinson — Restoring Wichita's peer coach and Carol's son — is proof of what this looks like. He didn't get sober in a waiting room. He got sober because someone stayed.
Full peer coaching support — intake, coaching sessions, recovery plan, and follow-up.
Full-time CPRC salary for six months — the core of everything Restoring Wichita delivers.
One in three adults in early recovery faces food insecurity in their first 90 days. Basic needs instability — hunger, inadequate hygiene, lack of essential supplies — is one of the most common and least-addressed barriers to restoration. For some, it is the only barrier. For all, it is the foundation.
Restoring Wichita provides food assistance, hygiene supplies, and warm referrals to community food and clothing resources. We partner with Walmart Spark Good registries, Feeding America partners, and local pantries to ensure our clients have immediate stability — the foundation that makes everything else possible.
Housing instability is one of the strongest predictors of relapse. Seventy-two percent of adults discharged from treatment lack stable housing. Restoring Wichita provides housing navigation, transitional housing referrals via MOU partner agreements, and 30/60/90-day stability monitoring — because housing is a recovery issue.
We navigate the system so clients don't have to navigate it alone. Housing referrals, transitional housing connections, MOU partner relationships with local providers, and consistent follow-up to confirm placement and monitor stability. We don't close the case when the client gets a roof. We follow up to make sure it holds.
A client at risk of losing housing — or without housing — is flagged at intake or identified during coaching. Their peer coach connects them immediately to Restoring Wichita's housing navigator. Within 72 hours, a referral to a transitional housing partner is made and confirmed. At 30, 60, and 90 days, we follow up to confirm stability.
Our housing navigator holds formal MOU agreements with transitional housing providers — so referrals are warm, not cold. We do not send clients to a list. We make the call.
Navigation, referral, placement confirmation, and 90-day stability monitoring for one client.
Full part-time housing navigator salary for six months serving the full client caseload.
Substance use disorders and mental health conditions are deeply intertwined. Most people in recovery have underlying mental health needs that, if unaddressed, become the triggers for relapse. Restoring Wichita does not provide clinical mental health services — but we ensure every client who needs them gets connected and stays connected.
We provide warm handoffs — not referral sheets — to licensed mental health providers via formal MOU agreements. Our clinical director, Dr. Elena Vargas-Reyes, LCSW, oversees all mental health linkage protocols. Within 14 days of a referral, we confirm the connection was made. If it wasn't, we try again.
All mental health linkage protocols are overseen by Dr. Elena Vargas-Reyes, LCSW — Licensed Clinical Social Worker, bilingual EN/ES. No unlicensed clinical services are delivered. Ever.
Sustained recovery requires a life worth staying sober for. Employment, financial stability, and the practical skills of daily living are not afterthoughts — they are the infrastructure of a recovery that holds. Restoring Wichita's employment and life skills programming bridges the gap between sobriety and reintegration.
We offer workshops on employment readiness, resume building, financial literacy, and daily living skills. Our corporate relations board member, Tyler Mackenzie brings direct corporate community affairs experience experience and direct employer relationships. We do not just prepare clients to apply — we open doors.
Clients at 60+ days of sobriety are offered employment readiness workshops — practical, accessible, and recovery-aware. Resume help, interview preparation, and financial literacy basics are delivered in a group format that also reinforces peer connection. Clients who are ready for employment are connected directly to employer partners.
At 90 days, employment status is tracked as a key outcome metric — reported to funders quarterly and annually.
Full employment and life skills workshop series — 4 sessions, materials, facilitation, and follow-up.
Annual employment and life skills programming — quarterly workshop series with outcome tracking.
Eight weeks. Weekly 90-minute group sessions. Each session opens with Scripture, moves into honest conversation about faith and recovery, and closes with prayer. No background knowledge required. No performance expected. Just people asking the hardest questions — and a community that believes the answers are real.
Clients who complete Faith Foundations are connected to a local church community of their choosing — a congregation that has been prepared to welcome them. The goal is not program completion. It is belonging.
We believe Jesus Christ is the one who makes recovery truly possible. Not the program. Not the peer coach. Not the stable housing — though all of these matter. Him. Faith Foundations is our Bible study and discipleship program for anyone in recovery who wants to know Jesus — or know Him more deeply.
Faith Foundations is offered to every Restoring Wichita client — freely, without pressure, and without any requirement to participate. Our services are available to every person in recovery regardless of their faith background. But for those who want to go deeper — who are asking the questions that peer coaching alone cannot answer — this program is where we go there together.
Led by Rev. James Harwell (M.Div., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, ordained Southern Baptist pastor) and rooted in Scripture, Faith Foundations is a structured 8-week Bible study and faith formation experience. It is not a church service. It is not a theological lecture. It is an honest, accessible encounter with the Gospel for people in the middle of the hardest thing they have ever done.
"With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
This is the conviction underneath every Restoring Wichita service. Faith Foundations is where we say it plainly — and invite anyone who wants to discover what it means to come and see.
Jesus read this verse aloud in the synagogue in Luke 4 and said: today this is fulfilled in your hearing. It is a list of services. Good news to the poor — basic needs. Bind up the brokenhearted — mental health linkage. Freedom for captives — recovery from addiction. Release from darkness — housing, belonging, restoration. Every program on this page exists because this verse is still being fulfilled — one lost sheep at a time, in Lawton, by the hands of people who believe it.
