OneRise is an integrative, state-of-the-art behavioral healthcare campus coming to Southcentral Kansas. This 70-acre campus will offer a comprehensive approach to mental health care and substance abuse needs affecting Wichita and the region. Using trauma-informed design, we are creating architecture that not only functions, but promotes healing and wellbeing.
Recent research suggests that congregate shelters are not only not helpful in healing people's trauma, but that they may even exacerbate trauma. In these settings, people remain in a 'fight or flight' mindset which makes healing very difficult at best. With this research in mind, the design team chose not to include congregate housing in the OneRise masterplan, a decision that represent a huge shift in how homelessness has traditionally been addressed. Using trauma-informed design principles, the design team created a series of interior design palettes to
All who stay at the OneRise campus will have dignified spaces and places for healing.
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