Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center

Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center – South 2nd Street offers outpatient treatment for individuals with a substance addiction and/or a mental health diagnosis. The program includes individual counseling, group therapy, couples therapy and more. Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center – South 2nd Street is located at Hiawatha, Kansas.

KANZA Mental Health and Guidance Center is a private not-for-profit agency licensed by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services as a participating community mental health center. KANZA was formed in November 1963 and by 1971 was contracted to serve the citizens of Brown, Doniphan, Nemaha and Jackson Counties in Kansas. It is governed by a volunteer board of 14 members appointed by County government.

KANZA provides a wide array of behavioral health services including psychotherapy services, psychiatric medication evaluation and management services, psychological evaluation, critical incident stress debriefing, and speakers on a variety of topics. Overall, KANZA believes that persons can achieve recovery from mental illness and recovery can occur at various levels based upon the individual. The wide array of services also includes mental rehabilitation services for children and youth experiencing a serious emotional disorder and adults who are experiencing a severe and persistent mental illness.

KANZA’s clinical staff are available 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. KANZA services are funded by a number of resources, which include fees collected from third party payers as well as client fees based on a sliding fee scale, state funds to provide crisis services and other services to persons who are uninsured and dealing with severe mental illness, and county funding. The Center fulfills the critical role of a mental safety net provider and works closely with numerous community partners to provide emergency assessment, referral and crisis intervention services.