CYSHCN: Children’s Resource Centers

Wisconsin has five Children’s Resource Centers devoted to supporting families with children and youth (ages 0-2) with special health care needs and the providers who serve them.

Children's Resource Centers are staffed by helpers who often have personal experience having a child or family member with special healthcare needs. Children's Resource Centers provide free and confidential services and have up to date information on a variety of topics, including:

• Communicating with schools
• Facilitating parent-to-parent support
• Providing information on specific diagnosis
• Identifying services in the community or state
• Locating doctors and dental care
• Transitioning to adult settings
• Understanding health benefits

If you have a child with special health care needs, or if you have concerns about your child, contact Wisconsin Wayfinder to get connected with a Children’s Resource Center. If your child is already being helped, continue to contact the center in your area. 

Children’s Resource Centers

• Children's Resource Center, North
  Phone: 866-640-4106
• Children's Resource Center, Northeast
  Phone: 877-568-5205
• Children's Resource Center, Southeast
  Phone: 800-234-KIDS (5437)
• Children's Resource Center, South
  Phone: 800-532-3321
• Children's Resource Center, West
  Phone: 800-400-3678

Forms and publications

If you are a professional and want to refer a child, youth, or family to a Children's Resource Center, use the form Consent to Release Medical Information—Referral to a Regional Center for CYSHCN, F-01238.