AHW's Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program (HWPP) and the MCW Consortium on Public and Community Health are pleased to announce more than $1.7 million in awards to seven community-MCW academic partnership initiatives to improve health in Wisconsin.

The funded partnerships include more than 40 community organizations and six MCW faculty and staff members as partners on these initiatives.  Areas of focus include Milwaukee County, Brown County as well as statewide partnerships.

As part of the third cohort of the HWPP Responsive component, the partners on these awards will work to translate public health evidence into action to pursue grassroots policy, environmental or systems change addressing the key determinants influencing health.  Awardees address several of Wisconsin's pressing health needs and include initiatives that will improve youth fitness, increase access to screenings for child behavioral issues and maternal post-partum depression, support earlier detection of child developmental delays, improve vision health for Wisconsin's children, reduce medication errors through adoption of user-friendly medication labels, integrate trauma-informed approaches into Wisconsin's child welfare policies, and, improve medical response and care for sexually exploited youth.

To learn more about these and other funded initiatives, visit http://www.mcw.edu/Advancing-Healthier-WI-Endowment/Funded-Awards.htm

To learn how you can apply funding to advance policy and systems change in your community, visit http://www.mcw.edu/Advancing-Healthier-WI-Endowment/Apply-for-Funding/HWPP/Responsive-Component.htm