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It's been a little less than five years since Children's Wisconsin launched an ambitious five-year plan to significantly improve access to behavioral health care for children and adolescents. Now, those efforts have culminated into a name that's here to stay: the Craig Yabuki Mental Health Center.
The official name and designation comes on the heels of Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction releasing the results of the 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey last week. Educators, researchers and mental health advocates have once again sounded the alarm that the intensifying youth mental health crisis isn't going anywhere.
Neither is the Craig Yabuki Mental Health Center.
The name may be familiar to those who have spent time at Children's main campus in Wauwatosa in the last year and a half. Children's Wisconsin opened the doors of the Craig Yabuki Mental Health Walk-in Clinic in March 2022, less than a year after former Fiserv Inc. CEO Jeffrey Yabuki donated $20 million to put therapists in every Children’s primary care and urgent care office in southeastern Wisconsin. It was named in memory of Jeffrey's brother, Craig Yabuki, who died by suicide in 2017.
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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.
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Children’s Wisconsin is proud to announce the creation of the Craig Yabuki Mental Health Center.
The Children’s Wisconsin board of directors has named Gil Peri as the organization’s new president and CEO, effective August 12, 2024.
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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.
