About the Craig Yabuki Mental Health Center

The Craig Yabuki Mental Health Center at Children’s Wisconsin provides comprehensive mental and behavioral health care services for kids as young as 6 months through adolescence and into early adulthood. Services are geared toward supporting the whole family. Families can take comfort in knowing our pediatric experts can diagnosis and treat a wide range of mental health, behavioral and psychiatric conditions. Our Craig Yabuki Mental Health Center team provides care at locations across the state, as well as virtually through video visits.

With our designation as a clinical center, the Craig Yabuki Mental Health Center meets criteria set by Children’s Wisconsin related to clinical outcomes, quality measures, education, research, innovation and philanthropy. This designation recognizes the range and coordination of mental and behavioral health care services we provide. It also honors a transformational philanthropic gift made to Children’s Wisconsin by The Yabuki Family Foundation. With this designation, we believe the Craig Yabuki Mental Health Center sets an important new standard for evaluation, treatment and access to mental health care services for children.

About our commitment to mental and behavioral health

At Children's Wisconsin, we believe caring for a child's mental health is just as important as caring for their physical health. And as the state’s largest provider of pediatric health care, we recognize Children’s Wisconsin is uniquely positioned to address the mental and behavioral health needs of kids across our state.

We already treat thousands of kids with mental and behavioral health challenges every year in our mental health walk-in clinic, in all of our primary care and urgent care locations, in specialty care clinics and the hospital and in outpatient clinics and schools across the state. Despite our efforts, kids in Wisconsin are still facing a mental health crisis. They have high rates of anxiety, depression and suicide — and not enough access to care. Solving this crisis will have a lasting impact on the mental development, physical health and future well-being of kids long into adulthood.

While we are proud of the progress we’ve made so far, we know there is much more we have to do. That’s why Children’s Wisconsin is invested in a multifaceted approach to mental and behavioral health care. This means we are continuing to focus on early detection, improving access to mental health care and reducing the stigma associated with mental health conditions. And through our Craig Yabuki Mental Health Center, we are developing a comprehensive and groundbreaking model to address the mental health needs of children in our state.