UWM helps ramp up mental health services for traumatized children

The Institute for Child and Family Well-being will provide training to mental health clinicians to make evidence-based mental health practices more widely available in Milwaukee and Racine counties to children who have experienced trauma. Funding for the five-year project is provided by a $1.8 million grant awarded to the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families […]

Lisa Berger named director of Center for Urban Population Health

A professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has been named the new director of the Center for Urban Population Health (CUPH), a collaborative research organization among UWM, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and Aurora Health Care Inc. Lisa Berger replaces Ron Cisler, who left CUPH to become […]

The Young Caregivers

Very little is known about the million-plus American children providing significant medical care for adults. Melinda Kavanaugh wants to change that.