The Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation is a coordinating partner for Wisconsin United for Mental Health, an ongoing effort by Wisconsin citizens to educate and increase awareness about mental illness as a real and common disease that is treatable. Wisconsin United for Mental Health was launched in 2002 with the support of many state, nonprofit, advocacy and consumer groups.
The organization undertakes many initiatives to promote mental health awareness and education including:
- Coordinating a speakers bureau
- Maintaining an informational website
- Regularly submitting opinion pieces to state daily and weekly newspapers;
- Creating and distributing public service announcements;
- Working with state libraries to distribute information on mental illness
