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Children come first (ccf) - a program for children who are living with chronic and persistent mental health issues. Ccf coordinates mental health services, community resources, and other needed services to support children and their families by using a strengths-based approach to wraparound care coordination. In 2022 we provided comprehensive case management, family advocacy and wraparound services to 110 children and adolescents.

Court ordered evaluations - partners with mental health professionals to provide objective assessments and court ordered evaluations for individuals in dane county under the following Wisconsin statutes: juvenile justice code 938.295, children's code 48.295, emergency detention 51.15, involuntary commitment for treatment 51.20 and guardianship 54/55. We utilize a diverse provider network of over 40 qualified mental health professionals including master's level clinicians, licensed psychologists, and licensed psychiatrists to conduct the evaluations. These assessments and evaluations are then used for the purposes of treatment planning and placement decisions. For 2022, we completed almost 900 evaluations for individuals in dane county.

Early childhood initiative (eci) - a voluntary home visiting program in madison/dane county, wi for pregnant women and families with children aged 0-4k. Eci services are grounded in the knowledge that families are more successful when parents and children have access to responsive, comprehensive and community-based support. During 2022, eci staff worked with 93 families through the early childhood initiative program.

Respite - provides respite and crisis child care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week except sundays from 9am - 4pm, to families experiencing high levels of stress. The ordinary demands of caring for children can drain a parent's time, attention and energy. Being a parent becomes more difficult when a family faces additional challenges such as unemployment, social isolation, alcohol and chemical dependency, poverty, children with special needs, domestic and community violence, mental health challenges and or the continuous responsibility of single parenthood. The respite center can help and provided services to 1,063 children in 2022.

Parentchild+ program - an evidenced-based early literacy and school readiness program that prepares young children ages 2-4 for school success by strengthening positive parent-child interaction through the development of critical language and pre-literacy skills. Families are matched with an early learning specialist who supports parents and caregivers in their roles as their child's first and most important teacher. For 2022, early learning specialists met with 89 children and families throughout dane county two times each week and provided them an educational book or toy to help support the child's learning.

Comprehensive community services (ccs) - a medical assistance program administered by dane county human services (dchs) to provide a flexible array of individualized, community-based, psychosocial rehabilitation services to individuals in dane county with mental health and/or substance use issues across the lifespan. Key features of the program include a client-directed and individualized approach to care coordination, a recovery oriented and strengths-based approach and a focus on community supports. Services were provided to 71 children and young adults enrolled in the program in 2022.

Welcome baby & beyond - visits parents or caregivers with children ages 0-5 weekly in their homes to help them learn and build confidence in how to take care for their child, to teach them about child development and how to help their child thrive through the first five years of their life. Through regular in-home visits, family support specialists offer support, share child development and parenting information, assist parents in monitoring their child's development, and offer fun ways for parents to bond with their children. In 2020, welcome baby in partnership with the united way of dane county and the road home, another non-profit, expanded services to the road home participants in an initiative called building futures. Welcome baby & beyond and building futures are offered to dane county residents and had 50 families enrolled in 2022.

Breaking the cycle (btc) - provides wraparound care, with a focus on tutoring and mentoring siblings of justice-involved youth it the city of madison. This was a pilot program funded by the police department and the state, and will be wrapping up in june 2023.

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