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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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
Not a typical fundraiser, but an experience. An opportunity for fun, entertainment, connection, & empowerment.
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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
