Kansas City Indian Center
Kansas City area’s only multi-purpose social service agency for American Indians.
Mission
Our mission is to encourage social, educational, and economic advancement of the American Indian community by promoting traditional and cultural values.
Goals
Provide health, welfare, and cultural services to American Indian individuals and families of our community
Promote fellowship among the American Indian people of all tribes living in the Kansas City Area
Stimulate the natural integration of the American Indian into the community
Encourage artistic and vocational pursuits by American Indian people
Preserve and foster traditional American Indian cultural values
Staff Directory
Gaylene Crouser
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Executive Director
Carole Cadue-Blackwood, LMSW
Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas
Social Worker, Morningstar Program
Sara Camacho
Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate
Nutritional Security Coordinator
Tokeya Richardson
Oglala Lakota / Haliwa-Saponi
Youth and Families Program Coordinator
Justin Nichols, BSN, RN
Health Services Coordinator
D’Arlyn Bell, Ph.D.
Cherokee Nation
Director of Civic Engagement and Advocacy
Rhiannon Nez, MPH
Diné
Public Health Specialist
Dawn Dixon
Office Manager and Finance Manager
Dani Turtle
Choctaw/Cherokee
Medical Receptionist
Aubrey Bell
Cherokee Nation
Food Pantry Assistant
Board of Directors
Alice Flanagan-Spiller
Crow/Cherokee descent
Chairman
Stoni Rae Hutchison
Choctaw
Vice-Chairman
Melissa Winter
Choctaw descent
Secretary
Shelby Rose
Diné
Treasurer
Teddy Tatum
Red Lake Band of Chippewa
Christina M. Pacheco, Esq., MPH
Quechua/Cherokee
Robert Wade, AIA
Chickasaw
Katie Prue
Sicangu
Employment opportunities
- (1) Case Manager with the Behavioral Health Morningstar.
- (2) Practicum/Internship Placements with the Behavioral Health Morningstar.
- Social Worker/Substance Use Disorder Counselor.
Please email carole@kcindiancenter.org for more information.