The Office of Children's Mental Health (OCMH) supports Wisconsin's children in achieving their optimal mental health and well-being. By encouraging collaboration across child and family service systems in Wisconsin, including state agencies, nongovernment mental health programs, advocates, and people with lived experience, OCMH supports children's mental health system improvements.

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School Shootings & Youth Mental Health Fact Sheet Release

School shootings have a traumatic effect not only on the children in the school, but also their teachers, families, and community as a whole. This trauma can cause long-term harm to youth mental health and well-being.

Learn more in our newest fact sheet.

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Lived Experience Academy Training

Caregivers and young adults from across Wisconsin are invited to attend the upcoming Lived Experience Academy virtual training. Led by the national organization, Living Room Conversations, this session will focus on key conversational strategies to talk about tough stuff. Please register to attend the event here: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7781872/Convo-Registration

Thursday, April 25

6 - 8 pm

Virtual

Connecting for Solutions: School Belonging & Children's Mental Health

Join us for another in our series of Social Connectedness of Youth Convenings where people and organizations across the state learn from each other about important children’s mental health topics.

Wednesday, April 24, 12-1:15 pm (virtual)

Register here.