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Enhancing Behavioral Health in Northern Wisconsin

Advancing Behavioral Health Initiative Phase I funded learning and planning year

Full Project Name:Upstream Improvement: Enhancing Behavioral Health in Northern WisconsinPrimary Community Organization:NorthLakes Community ClinicPrimary Academic Partner:Michelle Broaddus, PhD, Psychiatry and Behavioral MedicineAward Amount:$162,754
Award Date
July2016
Project Duration:12 months

Project Summary:


Advancing Behavioral Health Initiative Phase I

Upstream Improvement: Enhancing behavioral health in Northern Wisconsin 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 to support the creation of a system that both addresses the social determinants of behavioral health and improves the availability, accessibility, and acceptability of regional services.

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.

Outcomes & Lessons Learned:


  • Completed the Advancing Behavioral Health Initiative Phase I learning community and planning phase
  • Successfully developed project focus and implementation plan, receiving funding award for Phase II five-year project implementation period

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