Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Program (Title V)

Thank you to those who applied for the recent multi-year projects addressing the needs of mothers, children (including children and youth with special health care needs), and families in Wisconsin. Applicants awarded funding are listed by priority area.

If you have questions regarding the funding application and process, email the program at DHSDPHMCH@dhs.wisconsin.gov.

Dual Protection clinics: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to aid reproductive health and family planning clinics in providing dual protection services to persons living in Wisconsin. Dual protection, a prevention strategy to prevent both pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, is an integral intervention in a reproductive health and family planning program. A dual protection clinic’s minimal requirements include the promotion and distribution of condoms and at least one type of emergency contraception.

• Ashland County Health and Human Services
• Bayfield County Health Department
• Chippewa County Department of Public Health
• Clark County Health Department
• Cudahy Health Department
• Douglas County Community Health Clinic, Inc. dba Health Care Clinic
• Florence County Health Department
• Fond du Lac Co Health Department
• Healthfirst Network
• Kenosha County Public Health
• Newcap, Inc.
• Oneida County Reproductive Health Clinic
• Pepin County Health Department
• Polk County Health Department
• Public Health Madison and Dane County
• Sawyer County Health and Human Services

Perinatal Mental Health Access Expansion: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to improve access to perinatal mental health provider services and resources that support pregnant and postpartum women up to 12 months statewide.

Medical College of Wisconsin (Periscope Project)

Birth Worker Training and Workforce Development: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to provide training and development opportunities for Wisconsin’s birth workforce to increase access, support, and resources for pregnant individuals and their support persons.

Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care

Doula Recruitment and Training with Sustainability Support: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to provide training for new doulas and to expand continuing education for doulas.

• African American Breastfeeding Network
• Roots4Change Cooperative
• Wisconsin Doulas Association, Inc

Support for Universal Developmental Monitoring and Screening: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to improve developmental screening and monitoring statewide, through training, education, outreach, and collaboration to help all children reach age-appropriate developmental milestones.

Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin

Enhancing Youth Mental Health Resources through Quality Improvement and Collaboration: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to empower and engage youth as leaders in public health, with a focus on mental health. Through this initiative, youth will participate in state-level engagement activities and lead community health improvement projects. Providing and connecting youth to opportunities will center youth voices in decision-making processes that directly affect their well-being.

Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation

Statewide Youth Engagement: Youth Voice, Trainings, and Support for Best Practices to Improve Youth Mental Health: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to empower and engage youth as leaders in public health, with a focus on mental health. Through this initiative, youth will participate in state-level engagement activities and lead community health improvement projects. Providing and connecting youth to opportunities will center youth voices in decision-making processes that directly affect their well-being.

Embolden WI

Health Benefits Counseling, Training, and Advocacy: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to provide benefits counseling, coordination, and support for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and their families.

ABC for Health

Children's Resource Centers for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN): The purpose of this funding opportunity is to provide information and referral services to children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN), their families, and providers.

• Children's Hospital (Northeastern Region)
• Children's Hospital (Southeastern Region)
• Chippewa County Department of Public Health (Western Region)
• Marathon County Public Health (Northern Region)
• Waisman Center (Southern Region)

Wisconsin Statewide Public Health Referral and Access Program for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN): The purpose of this funding opportunity is to host the 1-877-WISCWAY Wisconsin Wayfinder phone line by routing phone calls from families and providers of children and youth with special health (CYSHCN) to their local Children’s Resource Center and to create an online CYSHCN-specific resource navigation tool for CYSHCN families and providers.

Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation

Advisory Committee for Families and Caregivers of Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN): The purpose of this funding opportunity is to convene an advisory board consisting of parents and family members of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN).

Family Voices of Wisconsin

Statewide Family Education, Training, and Advocacy for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN): The purpose of this funding opportunity is to provide statewide learning opportunities to support children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and their families.

Family Voices of Wisconsin

Peer Support for Families and Caregivers of Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN): The purpose of this funding opportunity is to: A) provide peer support for parents/families of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) with an additional optional opportunity; B) serve as the lead agency providing guidance to all agencies qualified for part A.

• Children's Hospital (Part A-Southeastern Region)
• Chippewa County Department of Public Health (Part A-Western Region)
• Marathon County Public Health (Part A-Northern Region)
• Waisman (Part B-Statewide)
• Waisman Center (Part A-Southern Region)
• WisconSibs (Part A-Northeastern Region)

Training and Collaboration Support for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) Network

Family Voices of Wisconsin

Supporting Youth-Friendly Initiatives Serving Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN): The purpose of this funding opportunity is to provide training and education about youth-friendly healthcare services to children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and the professionals who serve them in healthcare and academic settings.

Embolden, WI

Developmental Screening, Referral, and Navigation Support: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to implement evidence-based strategies to increase access to developmental screenings and referrals, and to strengthen follow-up support for families in navigating services in rural areas, to help all children reach age-appropriate developmental milestones.

First 5 Fox Valley

Improving Social Connections: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to increase opportunities for social connections to improve health and wellness for Wisconsin women, infants, children, and families.

• Eau Claire City-County Health Department
• People of Progression
• The Parenting Network
• Wello

Strengthening Wisconsin Tribal Nations Food Sovereignty: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to strengthen Tribal Nations’ food sovereignty and traditional food practices in American Indian/Alaskan Native communities, including revitalizing traditional knowledge and practices. Projects that focus on or include efforts to strengthen support for Indigenous Milk and emphasize traditional practices of First Food for infants are eligible for this funding.

Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin

Food is Medicine Statewide Infrastructure: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to Strengthen Wisconsin’s statewide infrastructure that supports Food is Medicine coordination and implementation to improve nutrition security for all families.

Wisconsin Food is Medicine Coalition c/o UW-Madison School of Human Ecology

Improving Nutrition Security: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to improve nutrition security for Wisconsin women, infants, children, and families by increasing access to nutritious foods.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension

We are grateful for your support on the statewide needs assessment! Your input helped us understand the needs for mothers, children, and families in Wisconsin. The program used data from the statewide community and organizational input surveys and focus groups, as well as existing state and national data to define our state's 2026–2030 grant cycle priorities.

• All women experience the safe and stable supports they need to live and thrive from preconception through 12 months postpartum.
• All women of reproductive age have nearby and affordable contraceptive care options and have safe, positive sexual experiences.
• All infants experience the safe and stable supports they need to live and thrive starting from birth to celebrating their first birthday.
• All children and their families experience timely, nearby, uncomplicated, coordinated care and supports to live and thrive.
• All adolescents have the reliable, timely, nearby mental health supports that they need, and are free from the harms of untreated mental health conditions.
• All children and youth with special health care needs and their families experience timely, nearby, uncomplicated, coordinated supports to live and thrive.
• All families experience emotional and physical safety in their communities, are free from discrimination, and have the social support they need.
• All families have enough food and adequate nutrition to live and thrive.