Visitor restrictions are in place across all Children’s Wisconsin locations. Masks are required for all visitors and for patients ages 2+.
Two live videos with the latest COVID-19 vaccine information.
Enter to win one of 20 $1,000 Healthy Schools Challenge awards.
Whenever I try to come up with words to describe what it’s like to be a foster parent/family, I’m always a bit stuck — just like being a parent of any kid brings up different adjectives on different days:
But in all honesty, being a foster/adoptive parent is a privilege. We are stepping in to help a family in crisis by providing a safe place for a child to stay while his or her family heals, and that kind of parenting does seem to bring to mind different adjectives:
The best way we’ve learned to function is to remain fluid — plans change. The child’s needs are different and it is our job to help write this chapter of their life with love and support. It really comes down to ordinary people making a daily commitment to the extraordinary. When this happens, we are giving the family the opportunity to heal and, in turn, change the child’s life.
The first in a series of blog posts exploring the causes of and potential solutions for the cycle of violence and trauma.
How doctors in our Herma Heart Institute are treating something no one has ever seen before.
Little Grace is a walking, talking miracle who is moving mountains.
Checking in with a few of our frontline staff who have received the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
When suddenly faced with homelessness, one family didn't know where to turn. That's when Children's Wisconsin got involved.
For teenagers in foster care, the fact that you showed up when no one else did changed their lives for the better, forever.
After struggling for years to get pregnant, Jared and Sydney were surprised with not one, but two little miracles.