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)
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!
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Latest Updates
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