{"id":638253,"date":"2026-04-29T10:33:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/638253\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:33:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:33:38","slug":"nami-wichita-draws-community-support-for-mental-health-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/638253\/","title":{"rendered":"NAMI Wichita draws community support for mental health awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) &#8211; The weather held up long enough on Sunday for the first walk event hosted by NAMI Wichita at Sedgwick County Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The free NAMIWalks event was aimed at raising awareness for mental health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sunday\u2019s walk event was just under a mile and also served a fundraiser. Event organizers said they received a lot of positive feedback at their first walk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cEverybody said it was a really good first walk. They were very happy we had an upbeat walk. They walked just under a mile,\u201d said the executive director of NAMI Wichita, Tara Gwynn. \u201cThey had a lot of energy coming and going. They were grateful to learn about not just NAMI Wichita, but their local resources that can help with mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">NAMI Wichita is a nonprofit offering free mental health education and support to those who need it. They offer support groups, chances to speak with doctors, educational programs and community presentations about mental health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To learn more about NAMI Wichita and the resources they connect people with, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/namiwichita.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/namiwichita.org\/\">visit their website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KWCH. All rights reserved. To report a correction or typo, please email news@kwch.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) &#8211; The weather held up long enough on Sunday for the first walk event hosted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[95693,64,63,5214,309044,309045,309041,137,309034,15142,309033,309035,309036,309037,309040,514,22828,172616,309042,5005,515,152108,309038,309039,152109,309043,238139,309046],"class_list":["post-638253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-12-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-community","tag-community-walk","tag-free-event","tag-free-mental-health-help","tag-health","tag-kake","tag-kansas","tag-ksn","tag-kwch","tag-kwch-12","tag-kwch-news","tag-mental-awareness","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-health-awareness","tag-mental-health-resources","tag-mental-help","tag-mental-illness","tag-mentalhealth","tag-nami","tag-nami-wichita","tag-national-alliance-on-mental-ililness","tag-national-alliance-on-mental-illness","tag-sedgwick-county-park","tag-wichita","tag-wichita-free-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}