Fostering gives you a gift of seeing potential long before it has bloomed.
Helping parents understand what feelings and moods are normal and what might need a little extra attention.
“The world needs to, the world needs to know. Mental health and stuff like that needs to be treated, or bad stuff could happen. If you're going through that by yourself, try and contact someone you know, like your friend, your family.”
The words of 11-year-old Austin couldn’t be truer.
On May 8, "60 Minutes" featured the innovative approaches Children’s Wisconsin is taking to address the mental health crisis facing our kids — kids like Austin, Abby, Mary, Neenah, Sophia and so many more.
Watch the full segment to learn more about these unique programs.
CBS journalist Sharyn Alfonsi sat down with several Children’s Wisconsin staff and providers to learn the unique ways they are proving mental and behavioral health care for children who need it most.
Featured in the segment were:
• Michelle Pickett, MD, physician in the Children’s Wisconsin Emergency Department (ED). Dr. Pickett leads an effort to screen every child 11 years old and older who comes through our ED for suicide risk.
• Tammy Makhlouf, LPC, manager of the Craig Yabuki Mental Health Walk-In Clinic. The clinic is a first-of-its-kind in Wisconsin that supports children experiencing a mental and behavioral health crisis.
• Brilliant Nimmer, MD, pediatrician at Children’s Wisconsin Next Door Pediatrics primary care office. Dr. Nimmer practices at one of the first offices to have a behavioral health consultant join as part of the primary care team. It’s a Children’s Wisconsin effort, made possible by a gift from The Yabuki Family Foundation, to expand mental and behavioral health to all our primary care offices and urgent care locations by 2023.
Three incredible and brave young people also shared their own mental health struggles and how Children’s Wisconsin has helped them cope, recover and flourish.
Staff supporting mental and behavioral health care at Children’s Wisconsin includes experts in the fields of child and adolescent psychiatry, pediatric psychology, neuropsychology and psychotherapy.
Children’s Wisconsin has awarded State Senator Mary Felzkowsi (R-Tomahawk) and State Representative Robert Wittke (R-Racine) with the tenth annual Children’s Champion Policy Awards.
Mental health walk-in care is now available at the Children’s Wisconsin Kenosha Clinic thanks to a $3 million gift from Kohl’s.
Milwaukee is now home to one of the nation’s first institutes designed specifically to focus on the neurological needs of people from birth to old age.
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While great strides have been made the last few years, our work is not done until we have greatly reduced the number of kids who become hooked after vaping.
