Our Mission

The mission of The Connection is to lead a coalition of diverse stakeholders to champion mental health for everyone in the Fox Valley by addressing barriers, challenging systems, creating solutions, and prioritizing care and support.

Our Vision

A community that is resilient, connected, and mentally well

Our Guiding Principles

  • Collaboration: Collaborate with others on shared root cause and shared risk issues
  • Equity: Elevate, understand and address disparities in mental health outcomes
  • Diversity Enlist and engage diverse champions to voice the mental health needs and concerns of our community
  • Innovation: Embrace innovation, challenge existing norms and structures, and champion out-of-the-box solutions
  • Data-Driven: Make mental health, suicide, and substance use data accessible, digestible, and usable to drive strategy and decision-making for our community
  • Lived Experience: Welcome and intentionally center the voice of lived experience in all activities
  • Systems Orientation: 94% of the problem is caused by the system, and 6% by the individual (Demings 94/6 Rule)

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Are you an adult living in Calumet, Outagamie or Winnebago county? Take this anonymous mental health survey that will help identify community solutions for support and prevention!
English: https://wchd.pub/3LZi62u
Spanish: https://wchd.pub/4dTlxnB
Hmong: https://wchd.pub/4dBxFta

 

Click here for more information about the survey.

Latest Updates

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Healing looks different in every community — and for Native American individuals and families, it often begins with reconnecting to tradition ,culture, and community care. This Mental Health

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HELP SAVE the Uplift Wisconsin Warmline AND have some fun this weekend! Mental Health America of Wisconsin is hosting its 2nd Annual Mocktail Bash on Saturday, May 10

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Worried about a teen in your life? You don’t have to do it alone. Supporting a young person’s mental health can be confusing and overwhelming — but there