Maternal and Child Health: Wisconsin Partner Profiles
Wisconsin’s Title V program is proud to fund a diverse group of partners throughout the state. Browse this list of our funded partners and learn more about how they’re working to advance the health and well-being of Wisconsin’s women, children, and families.
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The mission of Ashland County Public
Children's Health Alliance of
The Medical Home Initiative with Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin promotes children's health and development through its direct support to health care clinicians, public health departments, early childhood professionals and families throughout Wisconsin. They provide training, technical assistance and resources on practices of early screening, identification, care coordination and food security. They increase knowledge, skills and practices that improve cross-sector coordination of care and community support for all children, especially those with special health care needs.
Chippewa County Department of Public
With Title V funds, we have chosen to focus our efforts on advancing adolescent well-being by collaborating with community coalitions, schools, healthcare, and other partners. We will implement skill-based, gate keeper, risk behavior recognition, peer to peer, social emotional-learning, bullying prevention, or other evidence-based suicide prevention and mental health promotion programs that promote belonging and safety within Chippewa County.
It is the mission of the Clark County Health Department to promote health, prevent disease, and protect the residents of the county through partnerships and population-based services.
With Title V funding, the Clark County Health Department has been able to train two staff to become Certified Lactation Consultants, helping increase access for our rural populations. We have also assisted various community partners and schools in supporting their hydroponic gardens.
With Title V funds, Coffective is providing technical assistance to local and Tribal health departments on identifying, developing, and strengthening community partnerships and providing tools needed to begin addressing needs and barriers to the community's greatest disparities. Local and Tribal health departments are provided guidance and resources that bring community partners together to start building and strengthening their relationships to address breastfeeding and maternal child health needs. Technical assistance leverages existing and new partnerships to work together towards a shared maternal and child health goal that has been identified as the greatest success, barrier, or challenge in their community. Technical assistance includes group and 1:1 to provide the opportunity for peer learning and individual assistance. Lessons learned and successes are packaged and shared for others to replicate.
De Pere Health
De Pere Health Department has previously used Title V funds for suicide prevention efforts including active membership with the Brown County Coalition for Suicide Prevention, education about lethal means restriction and mental health resources, distribution of gun locks and medication storage boxes, promotion of Drug Take Back Day, Mental Health Awareness Month, etc., and more. While Depere will continue many of these efforts, they have moved the focus of their Title V funding to social connections work starting in 2024. This focus area is also part of their Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP). They hope to use community table talks, events such as National Night Out, programs such as Bingocize, and social media/marketing to encourage and help facilitate meaningful social connections within their city.
Dodge County Public
Dodge County Public Health is working closely with the Jefferson-Dodge Breastfeeding Coalition and using the Title V funds to address breastfeeding gaps in the community. In 2023, it is working on the following: creating a breastfeeding policy to implement around the community, offer prenatal support groups (including breastfeeding education), and create more breastfeeding support groups in the community. Dodge County Public Health is excited to have four public health nurses available to offer free breastfeeding home visits. This can include prenatal breastfeeding education, breastfeeding support, weight checks, and breastfeeding problem solving.
Doulaing The
Funding is being used to reach out and develop doula and educator talent that already exists in communities that experience racial inequities and disparities in birth and infant outcomes. It is shown that doulas make a difference, but trained doulas can be sisters, mothers, cousins, brothers-in-law, or grandparents. The more people who are trained as doulas in a community, the more the conversation about birth changes in that community. People will demand more and interact differently with their health care providers because it is a community movement. By seeding doula trainers who do several workshops a year, and not just training doulas, they hope to see the desired changes more quickly.
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The mission of Family Voices of
With Title V funds, FVofWI provides the Wisconsin Family Leadership Institute (WIFLI): Foundations to family members of children with special health care needs or disabilities. Additionally, FVofWI will host one "WiFLI Refresher" available to all past WIFLI participants to support connections and continued learning within the WIFLI network. To round out its Family Leadership offerings through this funding, FVofWI will make available "Speak Up" and "Your Voices Counts" on-demand training sessions to families of CYSHCN.
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Green County Public Health protects and promotes health and prevents diseases and injuries through population-based services and partnerships with community organizations.
With Title V funding, Green County Public Health supports employers and childcare providers to become breastfeeding friendly and listens to community members to determine what they need to achieve the breastfeeding experience they desire.
Healthy Birth Day,
With Title V funds, Healthy Birth Day, Inc. will provide Count the Kicks printed educational brochures, posters, app download reminder cards, and other educational offerings available at no out-of-pocket cost to providers in Wisconsin. They will also provide training for health care professionals on how to use the program's free tools and resources to talk with expectant parents about fetal movement monitoring in the third trimester of pregnancy. Their goal is to reduce the state's stillbirth rate by 32% as was done in Iowa, which would save more than 100 Wisconsin babies every year. They will work with maternal health organizations and community organizations to ensure that every expectant parent in the state receives vital information about tracking fetal movement in the third trimester and that they know about the free Count the Kicks app, which is available in 16 languages.
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Lafayette County Health
With Title V funding, the Lafayette County Health Department has been able to provide training to staff regarding mental health concerns and work to promote mental health for adolescents in our county.
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Lincoln County Health
With Title V funds, Lincoln County Health Department focuses on connecting and engaging families with the resources they need to attain optimal health. Continued education is provided to staff and partners to achieve this county wide.
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Ashland Birth Center is a free standing, midwife owned and operated birth center that is dedicated to providing quality pregnancy, labor, delivery and postpartum care for families.
With Title V funds, Ashland Birth Center is working to support health equity throughout the perinatal period and to improve our cultural responsiveness in our communities. Ashland Birth Center is supported by Title V funds to increase our capacity for offering cultural programming, childbirth education classes, and postpartum peer support gatherings, to improve accessibility to doula care (for both doula providers and families wanting a doula), and to support indigenous student midwives in their midwifery path.
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Moms Mental Health
MMHI will expand and diversify its work and partnerships with support from Title V funds. The organization will use the funds to identify community needs and create a toolkit to support patients, as well as grow in-person support group offerings for perinatal people in Southeast Wisconsin. They will also expand education opportunities for local groups and build organizational sustainability to ensure their work continues in the future.
Title V funds help to support the Great Lakes Breastfeeding webinars through Michigan Breastfeeding Network
The webinars are available on-demand for folks to watch whenever and wherever. They are grounded in access, evidence, equity, and relevance and offer seven types of free continuing education to participants.
Our mission is to empower all residents of Oconto County to live healthier through collaboration, education, leadership and prevention.
Oconto County Public Health is using the Title V funds for health equity projects including staff trainings about health equity and supporting partners in creating safe spaces. They have supported their local library in starting a bi-lingual story time and have helped the library translate materials into Spanish.
Prenatal Care Coordination helps pregnant women gain access to medical and other services related to their pregnancy along with providing education regarding prenatal and postpartum topics. Title V funds have helped the Oneida Nation support more women returning to work after maternity leave by creating many lactation rooms in a variety of buildings for staff.
The Periscope
With Title V funds, the Periscope Project will continue to provide services statewide to all health care providers and professionals caring for perinatal women struggling with psychiatric and substance use disorders.
Pierce County Public Health
With Title V funds, PCPH is currently promoting awareness and education to increase developmental screening in our communities. PCPH is also working to enhance family and youth social connectedness and inclusion.
The Providers and Teens Communicating for
With Title V funds, PATCH has expanded its PATCH Teen Educator Program into all five public health regions to promote open, honest, and medically accurate conversations between adolescents and their health care providers. They have also expanded the statewide PATCH Youth Advocacy Fellowships to more intentionally integrate youth perspective in Wisconsin's adolescent health goals, decisions, initiatives, and practices.
Public Health Madison Dane
PHMDC is using Title V funds on several different projects. We will be developing a system to compensate people with lived experience of fetal or infant loss to participate in our Fetal and Infant Mortality Review (FIMR). We will be working on systems and process to improve perinatal mental health and address inequities in maternal and child health. Finally, we will be using the funds to support our Community Advisory Board for our perinatal programs.
Star Legacy
With Title V funds, Star Legacy Foundation has developed the Wisconsin Center for Stillbirth and Infant
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Supporting Families Together
Supporting Families Together Association, in collaboration with 4C for Children and the African American Breastfeeding Network, is working to increase the number of childcare programs that are designated as Breastfeeding Friendly in Wisconsin. Using the 10 Steps to Breastfeeding Friendly Child Care Centers Resource Kit as a guide, local breastfeeding coalitions, local health agencies, and child care resource and referral agencies work with providers to learn about breastfeeding and to help them improve their practices, policies, and childcare environments to better support nursing families. Facilities undergo assessments, create action plans, and receive technical assistance to make needed improvements. Once they meet the 10 Steps, providers are awarded and recognized as "Breastfeeding Friendly.” Supporting Families Together Association’s role in this work is to provide technical assistance and support to local agencies working with providers on breastfeeding- friendly practices and to ensure that training is available and tracked in The Registry.
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Extension embodies the Wisconsin Idea by partnering to develop and connect the research and educational resources of UW–Madison with residents and communities to address local, statewide and national issues. All of UW–Madison Extension's work is guided by the Wisconsin Idea, the university's commitment to public service that is rooted in the principle that education should influence people's lives beyond the boundaries of the classroom. The Health & Well-Being Institute works to create positive change in Wisconsin families through evidence-based programs focused on nutrition, food security, food safety, chronic disease prevention, mental health, and substance misuse. Rooted in both urban and rural communities, we're working together to help solve the state's most pressing well-being needs and to ensure that all Wisconsinites live stronger, healthier lives.
With Title V funds, Extension will leverage its statewide infrastructure, local presence, and connections to research to support local and Tribal health departments. As a technical assistance provider, Extension commits to:
- Foster state and local partnerships between Extension and public health.
- Curate and disseminate resources to support local and Tribal public health departments in adolescent well-being, youth civic engagement, health equity, and youth mental health.
- Provide targeted technical assistance to local and Tribal public health departments, including learning community calls, webinars, and in-person training sessions.
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They are making mental health counseling more accessible to new and expectant parents experiencing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADS) by building a mental health workforce. Funds are used to hire qualified mental health professionals, develop training curriculum to educate other service providers, and increase community awareness of PMADS.
Washburn County Public
Washburn County Public Health uses Title V funds to provide evidence-based suicide prevention programming and mental health promotion activities within Washburn County.
The Wauwatosa Health
With Title V funds, the Wauwatosa Health Department has expanded programming in partnership with the Wauwatosa Public Library to provide story time sessions bringing caregivers and children together for hours of fun and learning through play.
The Winnebago County Health
Whether you need educational tools or supportive resources, they want to help support the health of you and your family. Their Parent Resource Hours provide free access to developmental screenings, breastfeeding support, nursing expertise, and more. Car seat checks and vaccinations are available by appointment.
Parent resource hours will allow the Winnebago County Health Department to bring back prenatal and postpartum services that were disrupted during COVID-19. Grant funds will allow the flexibility to provide "catch-up" services to families that have been struggling to find basic needs. By streamlining their service delivery and inter-professional team, families can access more of what they need in one visit rather than multiple trips. The services provided onsite include, but are not limited to developmental screenings, child passenger safety, sleep safety, nursing expertise, breastfeeding support, vaccines, and support navigating health and community resources. To incentivize the participants, basic needs materials can be obtained by participating in their Parent Resource Hours educational topic of the month. Items such as cribs, sleeping layettes, car seats, breastfeeding supplies, diapers and more will be available to take home as the clients discuss their current family status. They will encourage all primary caretakers to participate, including fathers.
Learn more about parent resource hours and other family health services of the Winnebago County Health
The Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual
With Title V funds, WCASA has expanded efforts of supporting community-based organizations beyond sexual assault service providers to those working in maternal and child health. WCASA's role as a technical assistance provider is to support community-based organizations develop and maintain the necessary infrastructure to be successful. WCASA provides technical assistance and training on a wide range of organization development topics, including grant management; internal capacity building; community development; financial management; board development; and other topics, as identified.
Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare
WCHQ is partnering with organizations throughout the state to reduce disparities and gaps associated with maternal health resulting in healthy moms and babies. WCHQ members, community partners, and payers will partner to reduce the gaps identified in at-risk pregnant women and their families. The populations identified at higher risk are Black, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander, American Indian/Indigenous, underserved, rural disadvantaged, and urban disadvantaged. WCHQ will use data on known causes of maternal mortality to identify areas for improvement and work with health systems on best practices to drive improvement.
The Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation (WWHF) is a nonprofit organization that provides health services and education for women and families. Its mission is to innovate, impact, and improve women's health in Wisconsin. Its services are available throughout the state, in all 72 counties, and are always free and accessible to anyone who needs them. WWHF services and research initiatives are rooted in evidence-based prevention and concentrate on helping people find critical resources and support needed to improve their health outcomes.
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The Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation (WWHF) is a nonprofit organization that provides health services and education for women and families. Our mission is to innovate, impact, and improve women's health in Wisconsin. WWHF services are available throughout the state, in all 72 counties, and are always free and accessible to anyone who needs them. WWHF services and research initiatives are rooted in evidence-based prevention and concentrate on helping people find critical resources and support needed to improve their health outcomes.
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