Wisconsin’s Children’s System of Care helps children facing a behavioral health challenge do better at home, in school, in the community, and throughout life.
Focus on wellness
State, tribal, and county agencies are working together to ensure services for mental health and substance use concerns are available to all children through Coordinated Services Teams Initiatives and the Comprehensive Community Services program. The result is a seamless network of services and supports known as wraparound. Wraparound is a planning process that brings people together from different parts of the child’s life. This team creates a wellness plan built around the child’s strengths and needs to meet the goals of the child and their family. The goal is a system of care in which children and families are valued, understood, and supported in their communities.
Select one of the following options for more information on Wisconsin’s Children’s System of Care.
Information for families
Services and supports for children facing a behavioral health challenge are available in all Wisconsin counties and tribes.
Information for county and tribal behavioral health agencies
The behavioral health community must work together to ensure the success of Wisconsin’s Children’s System of Care. These resources are designed to help counties and tribes transform their local systems to meet the goals of this effort.
- Children’s System of Care: Guiding Document, P-02093 (PDF)
- Children’s System of Care: Common Language, P-02093A (PDF)
Counties and tribes that need assistance to transform their system of care for children to meet the goals of Wisconsin’s System of Care should contact their Coordinated Services Teams Initiatives coordinator and/or Comprehensive Community Services coordinator in the Division of Care and Treatment Services.
Other resources
- National Wraparound Initiative
- The Foundations of Wisconsin Wraparound
- Wisconsin Collaborative Systems of Care
When you find healthy ways to cope with trauma and toxic stress, especially during the tough times, you take a step closer to becoming more resilient. Resilient Wisconsin is here to help, by bringing together the latest mental and behavioral health self-care tools and trauma-informed practices.
Our vision
Children and families are valued, understood, and supported in their communities.
Our principles of wraparound
- Family voice and choice
- Team-based
- Natural supports
- Collaboration
- Community-based
- Cultural and linguistic responsiveness
- Individualized and developmentally informed
- Strengths-based
- Unconditional
- Outcome-based
Our mission
The Wisconsin Children’s System of Care Initiative will infuse wraparound principles into services for children and families by fostering a process that embraces and supports the collective experiences, knowledge, and resources of all stakeholders.
- Children and families will have access to and choice from an array of supports and services that are responsive to their strengths and needs.
- Counties, tribes, and their partners will develop, transform, and sustain their community’s system of care by being responsive to needs, eliminating barriers to access, and empowering community partnerships.
- Coordinating committees will provide leadership and guidance in the development, transformation, and sustainability of their community’s system of care.
- The Department of Health Services will provide leadership, support, training, and technical assistance to state partners, counties, tribes, coordinating committees, and their providers.
- The Children Come First Advisory Committee will provide guidance and recommendations for statewide system improvements and leverage their collective resources to impact policy.
