When Maya needed answers, a new partnership in Northeast Wisconsin helped get them for her faster than ever.
Perhaps no other time in life is filled with such rapid physical, mental and emotional change than during puberty.
At 3:03 a.m. on the morning of March 4, 2017, 14-year-old Carson Molle went out to his family’s garage and did something unthinkable, something irreversible, something sadly all too common.
When he awoke several hours later at Children’s Wisconsin — confused, scared and surrounded by his loving family — something inside of him had changed. From unimaginable darkness came a renewed light.
This is Carson’s story.
But he’s not alone. Wisconsin's kids are facing a mental and behavioral health crisis. One in five children in Wisconsin is living with a serious mental illness and our youth suicide rate is significantly higher than most of the United States. We must act now. To learn more about what Children’s Wisconsin is doing to help our kids, please visit our Mental and Behavioral Health website.
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.
Learn how two brothers navigate their Type 1 diabetes and how we helped them thrive in their new everyday lives.
The Child Life and Creative Arts Therapies Program helps kids be kids.
One year ago, our community responded to the Waukesha Parade tragedy.
Melissa will never forget the night she learned her daughter was the victim of violence. But then our Project Ujima team helped her family move from pain to peace.
On July 11, 2019, Ksenia became the sixth patient in less than a month to be rushed to Children’s Wisconsin with life-threatening lung injuries. The cause — no one knew.
Children's Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin partner to bring Wisconsin's families the best possible care.
Our Go Baby Go program is helping kids like Victoria overcome every obstacle in their way.
