BPU Charity Golf Committee Awards Proceeds to PACES

KANSAS CITY, KAN. ---- In December, the BPU Charity Golf Tournament committee presented a check for $25,000 to PACES: A Place to Be Safe campaign.

This campaign was launched in 2013 to assist the Wyandot Inc. and PACES organizations in building emergency shelters for children who are experiencing a life crisis.

"Heroes for Healing" event set for Sept. 7

KANSAS CITY, KAN. ----- Frontier Steakhouse, 94th and State Ave., KCK, will host the 5th episode of Heroes for Healing on Sunday, Sept. 7, to benefit the new PACES children’s emergency shelter.

Bikers can enjoy a scenic motorcycle ride from 11:15 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., preceded by registration and breakfast starting at 9 a.m. Registration is $25 per rider; $15 per passenger; includes breakfast at Frontier Steakhouse.

The Main Event will feature live music by four bands, an auction and food from 2 to 8:30 p.m. at the steakhouse. Children’s activities are scheduled from 2 to 5 p.m.; the live auction begins at 4:30 p.m. Bands performing will include Dennis Laffoon’s All Star Band; Big Time; State Line Drive; and Issues. Food and prize tickets will be available for purchase at the event.

PACES is conducting a capital campaign to build a new emergency shelter for kids removed from their homes due to suspected abuse.  The new shelter will increase PACES capacity to help care for 10 children every day and reduce the number of kids being turned away or sent outside the county for temporary foster care. The shelter is planned for mid-Wyandotte County.

For more information, visit heroesforhealing.org or paceskidsshelter.org; or contact mclain_a@wmhci.org or 913-328-4667.

Country Classics concert to benefit PACES

KANSAS CITY, KAN. ----- Local musician Fred Uzell, along with fellow musicians Jim Winters, Donna Hensley and Kevin Blom will perform a Country Classics concert on Sunday, April 27 from 2pm to 5pm at the George Meyn Center, inside Wyandotte County Park.

Tickets are available for $15 prior to the show and $20 on the day of the show.

The concert will pay tribute to Country music greats Hank Williams Sr., Merle Haggard and George Jones.

Proceeds will benefit PACES, Wyandotte County’s mental health services for young people who face behavioral and emotional challenges.

Doors to George Meyn Center will open at 1pm. Concessions will be available for sale at the event.

For more information, or to purchase tickets, contact Melissa Bynum at 913-638-8589 or by email: Bynum_m@wmhci.org.

New program trains participants to help kids dealing with mental health crises

KANSAS CITY, KAN. ----- Wyandot Center and PACES are introducing a new national curriculum to help adults work with youth who are experiencing mental health crises or challenges.

The Youth Mental Health First Aid curriculum will be taught during two sessions, Monday, Nov. 4 and Tuesday, Nov.  5, 8 a.m. to noon each day.  Training will occur at Wyandot Center, 1301 North 47^th Street, Kansas City, Kan. Registration fee is $40 per participant and includes a helpful manual.

Beth Yoder Stein, administrative assistant and instructor, Wyandot Center, says that the course is designed for adults, like teachers, who work with or interact with youth, 12 to 18 years old. Participants will learn about depression, psychosis, eating disorders, attention deficit disorder, disruptive behavior disorders and substance use disorders.

Mental Health First Aid teaches a five-step action plan:

• Assess for risk of suicide or harm.

• Listen non-judgmentally.

• Give reassurance and information.

• Encourage appropriate professional help.

• Encourage self-help and other support strategies.

Register by emailing Yoder Stein at yoderstein_b@wmhci.org, or contact her for more information at 913-328-4633.

Wyandot Center is Wyandotte County’s designated community mental health center serving adults; PACES provides services for children and adolescents facing behavioral and emotional challenges, and their families.

Wyandot Center, PACES to offer Mental Health First Aid training

Are you ready to help in a mental health crisis? 

Mental Health First Aid training is designed to help you recognize signs and symptoms of a mental illness, and know what to do in a mental health crisis to help a family member, friend or person.

Wyandot Center and PACES will offer our next Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training on Tuesdays, Sept. 3 and 10, 8 a.m. to noon each day with time for breaks and lunch. The curriculum has been reformatted to eight hours (from the original 12-hour session).

The training will be held at Wyandot Center’s 1301 North 47th Street facility, Kansas City, Kansas, and is open to the community. There is a $40 fee per each participant. Register by emailing Beth Yoder Stein at yoderstein_b@wmhci.org, or contact her for more information at 913-328-4633.

Wyandot Center is Wyandotte County’s designated community mental health center serving adults; PACES provides services for children and adolescents facing behavioral and emotional challenges, and their families.

Patsy Cline Tribute concert to commemorate singer’s last concert, benefit PACES

Courtesy of Melissa Bynum

On Sunday, March 3, 1963 Patsy Cline, along with a large group of entertainers from the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tenn., came to Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kan., to perform a benefit concert for the family of disc-jockey Cactus Jack Call, who had been killed in an automobile accident in January that year.

Along with Patsy were Grand Ole Opry stars Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Dottie West, Billy Walker, Wilma Lee and her husband Stoney Cooper, and George Jones.

This was the last show that Patsy performed before she was killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tenn. on March 5. Also killed in that crash were Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins, and pilot Randy Hughes. To this day, March 5, 1963 is still referred to as the darkest day in the history of the Grand Ole Opry.

This year, on the 50th anniversary of that last concert in Kansas City, Kansas, a Patsy Cline tribute concert will be held. The show, which will replicate the format of Cline’s last show, will take place at 1 p.m., Sunday, March 3 at the George Meyn Center inside Wyandotte County Park, located at 126th and State Ave.

Like Cline’s last show, this concert will also be a benefit concert. Proceeds will benefit the children served at PACES, which provides emotional and behavioral health services for youth in Wyandotte County.

Wyandot Center, PACES to offer Mental Health First Aid training

Courtesy of Therese Horvat

Wyandot Center and PACES will offer the next Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training on Thursday and Friday, Dec. 6 and 7, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day with time for breaks and lunch.

The 12-hour program will be offered at Wyandot Center’s 1301 North 47th Street Building and is open to the community.

Mental Health First Aid training is designed to do just this: help you recognize signs and symptoms and know what to do in a mental health crisis to help a family member, friend or person with whom you come into contact.

There is a $40 fee per each participant. Register by emailing Beth Yoder Stein at yoderstein_b@wmhci.org, or contact her for more information at 913-328-4633.

Wyandot Center is Wyandotte County’s designated community mental health center serving adults; PACES provides services for children and adolescents facing behavioral and emotional challenges, and their families.

Mental Health First Aid training to be held at Wyandot Center

The Wyandot Center and PACES will be offering training on Mental Health First Aid in early May.

More information from a press release:

With accounts of signs and symptoms of mental illness aired in the daily news, have you ever wondered how you would respond to help in a situation like one of these stories – a pilot with behavioral problems, a person with road rage, a troubled teen-ager? 

Mental Health First Aid training is designed to do just this: help you recognize signs and symptoms and know what to do in a mental health crisis to help a family member, friend or person with whom you come into contact.

Wyandot Center and PACES will offer the next Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training on Thursday and Friday, May 3 and 4, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day with time for breaks and lunch.

The 12-hour program will be offered at Wyandot Center’s 1301 North 47^th Street Building and is open to the community.

There is a $40 fee per each participant. Register by emailing Beth Yoder Stein at yoderstein_b@wmhci.org, or contact her for more information at 913-328-4633.