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Gabriela Diéguez, Sixteenth Street Community Health Center

Mental Health Improvement Fund

Mental health and mental healthcare access is one of the community health areas that weighs most heavily in our area. It’s why Milwaukee Health Care Partnership members and United Way have narrowed our health focus to the new Mental Health Improvement Fund.

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Safe & Stable Homes in Milwaukee

Together, Community Advocates and Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee are working to make sure families don’t experience homelessness with support from United Way’s Safe & Stable Homes initiative.

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Crystal in front of Family Promise of Waukesha County

Safe & Stable Homes in Waukesha: Crystal & Family Promise

When Crystal had unexpected medical problems, the risk of homelessness for her and her three sons loomed. The Family Homelessness Prevention Program at Family Promise of Waukesha County helped Crystal stay in her home.

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Domaniquia at Next Door

Reducing Barriers to Employment & Advancement: Domaniquia & Next Door

Domaniquia knew a change was needed. Through the United Way-funded Pathways Program at Next Door, Domaniquia was able to pursue her new career in early childhood education without hesitation or barriers.

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Digital Skills Training at La Casa de Esperanza

Techquity: Digital Skills Training

Techquity's digital skills trainings, like “Cyber Security Basics,” held at our partner agency, La Casa de Esperanza in Waukesha, help to teach the community how to navigate the internet safely.

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Jack and Anne

Teen Mental Wellness Empowering Minds: Jack & Anne

Jack knew that he needed help with his anxiety. United Way’s newest initiative, Teen Mental Wellness: Empowering Minds' goal is to elevate the mental wellness of 21,000 high school students, like Jack, by 2030.

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FlexRide van.

Reducing Barriers to Employment & Advancement: FlexRide Milwaukee

FlexRide Milwaukee, operated by MobiliSE, is an on-demand program that helps individuals who are facing transportation insecurity commute to and from work.

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Waukesha South High School student

Teen Mental Wellness: Empowering Minds

Teen Mental Wellness: Empowering Minds is a unique health initiative reaching youth where they spend most of their day: school.

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Chandra and Legal Aid Society

Safe & Stable Homes: Chandra

With help from the Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee, Chandra's worries about a pending eviction and housing insecurity for her and her son were eased.

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