Milwaukee Mental Health Task Force
In partnership with
Make It Work Milwaukee Coalition
Invites you to attend:

Briefing on Proposed
2012 Milwaukee County Department Budgets
As Submitted to the County Executive

Tuesday, July 12, 2011
3:15 – 5:00 PM
Hosted by IndependenceFirst
540 S. 1st. – large conference room

Please allow ample time for parking
Space in the lot is limited so you may need to park on the street

We will open with a short business meeting for the
Mental Health Task Force, followed by the budget briefing

The briefing will include:

State budget Update: impact on Milwaukee County: Barbara Beckert, Disability Rights Wisconsin

Milwaukee County Transit System – Lloyd Grant
Milwaukee County Sheriff – Inspector Richard Schmidt

Disability Services – Mark Stein

Behavioral Health Division – Budget staff
Health & Human Services – Budget staff
Directors Geri Lyday & Paula Lucey plan to participate but may be delayed at another meeting.

Milwaukee County Department on Aging – Stephanie Sue Stein
Milwaukee County Dept. of Family Care – Maria Ledger

If you require any accommodations in order to participate in the meeting, please contact DRW by end of business Thursday 7/7 at 414-773-4646 or barbarab@drwi.org

The meetings are open to the public and involvement is encouraged from all sectors of our community.

*Transitioning from High School
*Employment
*College
*Legal Issues
*Benefits
and featuring for youth only: “What’s the Big Deal? Healthy Relationships and Dating”

The two remaining trainings are:

**Wednesday, May 25th from 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. at The Boys and Girls Club – 3400 W. North Avenue

**Saturday, June 18th from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Alianza Latina (SPANISH) 1615 S. 22nd Street-Milwaukee

CALL today to reserve your seat for this event including dinner and door prizes at 414-773-4646. Please indicate if accommodations are needed.

Click here to view a printable flyer.

These trainings are funded by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation Community Grant Fund.

Consumers, families and professionals are encouraged to attend. Connect with your legislators—please spread the word! Your voice is important!

Do you want to ride with other Milwaukee advocates?  Make it Work! Milwaukee is coordinating free accessible transportation and lunch.  First come, first serve. SPACE IS LIMITED!

Individuals needing transportation must register.

RSVP by Wednesday, March 30, 2011.
     Phone: Call ARC of Greater Milwaukee at 414-774-6255
     Email: Melinda Kiltz at ARC at melinda@arcmilwaukee.org

Meet the group at 8:45 a.m. at Wisconsin State Fair Park and Ride,
640 South 84th Street, West Allis, WI 53214.

Bus will return to Wisconsin State Fair Park around 3:45 p.m.

When you RSVP, please indicate if a disability-related accommodation is needed.

Thank you to our sponsors ARC of Greater Milwaukee, IndependenceFirst and People First Wisconsin.

Do you want to better understand how the Wisconsin State Budget will impact you and others in Milwaukee?

Join us for a State Budget Briefing that focuses on disability and aging services in Milwaukee.  Click here to view the printable flyer.

Friday, April 1, 2011
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: IndependenceFirst,
540 S. 1st Street, Milwaukee, WI 53204

Session is free and open to all! This briefing may be especially helpful for individuals attending Madison Legislative Days, such as the April 6th Disability Advocacy Day.

Let’s work together to create a strong voice for Milwaukee!

• Bring your lunch and join us. Drinks and dessert will be provided.

• RSVPs by March 29, 2011, are appreciated and will help with planning. Disability-related accommodations are also available. Please contact ARC of Greater Milwaukee at 414-774-6255 or Melinda@arcmilwaukee.org.

• Environmental/Chemical Sensitivity Policy: We request that guests not use perfumes, scented soaps, etc. IndependenceFirst is a smoke-free environment.

The next Post Summit Workgroup meeting has been scheduled for:
Wednesday- May 4- 1:30pm at NAMI Greater Milwaukee- 3732 W. Wisconsin Ave (park and enter through the rear lot)

The post-summit workgroup met on 3/22 (see below for a link to the March minutes).  The group is making strides and has decided on its next steps. 

The group will be focusing on increasing diverse representation and input with 3 current community efforts and the work that is already underway.  The group knows there has been attempts and effort made to include diversity in these initiatives; but we do not think it is sufficient and as a workgroup would like to work on improving the representation, which in turn will improve the input being contributed to these important initiatives. The 3-initiatives include:

• Co-occurring- CCISC initiative;
• Adult mental health redesign initiative  
• Community Advisory Board for BHD (if approved for another year)

Aside from ways to improve diversity with these initiatives, the workgroup would like to help ensure the national recommendations (see below)  for decreasing mental health disparities is part of the ongoing planning process.  The group thought these initiatives, which are already in place is a more efficient way to reach community programs on a larger scale and have a bigger impact on systemic change. 

National recommendations for decreasing health/mental health disparities:

• Improving access and reducing barriers to already existing programs
• Improving quality of clinical treatment through culturally proficiency training
• Increasing education support and capacity building to increase workforce diversity

We still need the support of the Mental Health Task Force and other interested community members to ensure the success of this workgroup.  We hope you can join us for our next meeting on May 4. 

March 2011

Click here to view minutes for the March meeting.

February 2011

Click here to view minutes for the February meeting.    Click here to view ideas related to disparity that were discussed at the meeting.

January 2011

Click here to view minutes from the first meeting held in January.

Please plan to join us for our 2010 Candidate Forum Series sponsored by Make It Work Milwaukee Coalition and Milwaukee Mental Health Task Force, and co-sponsored by the Milwaukee Latino Health Coalition.  Click Here for a printable flyer with information about the Session Three on October 1st.  Help us spread the word – please share with your networks.