08-05-2025
Justice Together offers solutions to help the community
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Justice Together is a Wichita nonprofit organization that focuses on serving the community and works to bring significant changes and solutions to social issues.
'What keeps you awake at night when you think about what's going on in Sedgwick County,' said Rev Lory Mills, St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church.
The group uses research to form goals.
'Put it together, and that's how we kind of land on a solution,' Mills said.
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A solution to tackle issues like mental health and homelessness.
'Last year, 70 people, 70 people, unhoused people died on the streets of Wichita,' Mills said.
The nonprofit is built from 39 congregations of all faiths.
'Sometimes it just means getting in the right crew and gathering of people with the right ideas to make that just next step,' said Rev. Wade Miller, Hillside Christian Church.
Once a year, Justice Together hosts a Nehemiah Assembly to present their ideas to city and county officials.
'We try to get as many people here as we can because our power is in numbers,' Mills said.
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The hope is that those leaders put plans into action, like Wichita's new low-barrier photo IDs.
'For people who are living on the streets and have trouble getting an ID because they don't have the documents and paperwork that they need to do that,' Mills said.
A testimony to the power of numbers.
'We're able to go with options and possibilities instead of saying, well, that's too big a problem for us to handle. There's nothing we can do about it, because everyone of us can do something,' Mills said.
This year's Nememiah Assembly is tonight at 6 p.m. at WSU's Hughes Metroplex. It is free to attend.
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