Project Summary:
Advancing Behavioral Health Initiative Phase III
The Northeast Wisconsin Mental Health Connection will sustain and embed into the communities of Calumet, Outagamie, and Winnebago counties the Sources of Strength project, a comprehensive mental health wellness program that utilizes the power of peer social networks to change unhealthy norms and culture to ultimately prevent suicide, bullying, violence, and substance abuse.
In phase three of its Advancing Behavioral Health Initiative, the Northeast Wisconsin Mental Health Connection will further develop and promote its mental health services navigation website, www.MyConnectionNew. Additionally, the coalition will continue community engagement activities and raise awareness of teen sleep and its critical importance to teen mental health.
The Northeast Wisconsin Mental Health Connection will also continue to hold conversations with community partners with the goal of "handing off" its regional Sources of Strength implementation project to an agency or organization that can support their own "in-house" certified Sources of Strength trainer(s) that are available to provide training and support to existing Sources schools, train new schools, and also work with other regionally certified trainers to coordinate trainings in the region.
Community partners: Appleton East High School, Appleton North High School, Appleton West High School, Boys and Girls Club of the Fox Valley, Brillion High School, Chilton High School, Cooperative Educational Service Agency (CESA) 6, Freedom High School, Hilbert High School, JRG Middle School, Kaukauna High School, Little Chute High School, Little Chute Middle School, Menasha High School, Neenah High School, New Holstein High School, New London High School, Omro High School, Oshkosh North High School, Oshkosh West High School, River View Middle School, Stockbridge Middle/High School, University of Wisconsin Extension-Madison, Winnebago County Health Department, Winneconne High School, Wrightstown High School
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.