Street Medicine Kansas City provides medical and behavioral care directly to those living and sleeping on the streets through mobile services with our back pack medicine groups. Our services are the first essential step in achieving higher levels of care through assertive, coordinated and collaborative medical management. Every night, more than 2,000 people in the greater Kansas City area sleep on the streets, in their cars, and in homeless encampments along the rivers. Thousands more live in temporary shelters and couch surf just to have a roof over their heads. Because of medical and behavioral health neglect, the life expectancy of a homeless person is 27 years less than someone who is not homeless. Street Medicine KC was founded in 2016. We are now a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. We are actively looking for advisers, medical navigators, and volunteers to help run our program.