Reducing the Impact of ACEs in Marathon County

Project Summary:

Advancing Behavioral Health Initiative Phase I

Building a Behavioral Health System to Reduce the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences is a project within AHW's Advancing Behavioral Health Initiative, an eight-year, $20 million initiative bringing together 10 community coalitions from across Wisconsin to address pressing mental health needs within their communities. A three-phase initiative, phase one served as a funded learning and planning phase, supporting community coalitions in developing a critical project focus and implementation plan. Through this project, partners sought to develop an implementation plan that would reduce the impact of adverse childhood experiences by 2024 by developing an integrated community and systems approach with schools, behavioral health, health care providers, and key stakeholders for children at risk of experiencing trauma.

This project is part of AHW's Advancing Behavioral Health Initiative, an eight-year, $20 million initiative bringing together 10 community coalitions from across Wisconsin to address pressing mental health needs within their communities. The initiative is designed in three phases, providing a funded planning year, a five-year implementation period, and a two-year sustainable transformation phase. Learn more here.