Rise Wisconsin Inc

Respite - provides respite and crisis child care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week except sundays from 9am - 4pm, to families experiencing high levels of stress. The ordinary demands of caring for children can drain a parent's time, attention and energy. Being a parent becomes more difficult when a family faces additional challenges such as unemployment, social isolation, alcohol and chemical dependency, poverty, children with special needs, domestic and community violence, mental health challenges and or the continuous responsibility of single parenthood. The respite center can help and provided services to 1,979 children in 2024.

Court ordered evaluations - partners with mental health professionals to provide objective assessments and court ordered evaluations for individuals in dane county under the following wisconsin statutes: juvenile justice code 938.295, children's code 48.295, emergency detention 51.15, involuntary commitment for treatment 51.20 and guardianship 54/55. We utilize a diverse provider network of over 40 qualified mental health professionals including master's level clinicians, licensed psychologists, and licensed psychiatrists to conduct the evaluations. These assessments and evaluations are then used for the purposes of treatment planning and placement decisions. For 2024, we completed almost 807 evaluations for individuals in dane county.

Early childhood initiative (eci) - a voluntary home visiting program in madison/dane county, wi for pregnant women and families with children aged 0-4k. Eci services are grounded in the knowledge that families are more successful when parents and children have access to responsive, comprehensive and community-based support. During 2024, eci staff worked with 75 families through the early childhood initiative program.

Parentchild+ program - an evidenced-based early literacy and school readiness program that prepares young children ages 2-4 for school success by strengthening positive parent-child interaction through the development of critical language and pre-literacy skills. Families arematched with an early learning specialist who supports parents and caregivers in their roles as their child's first and most important teacher. For 2024, early learning specialists met with 120 children and families throughout dane county two times each week and provided them an educational book or toy to help support the child's learning.

Welcome baby & beyond - visits parents or caregivers with children ages 0-5 weekly in their homes to help them learn and build confidence in how to take care for their child, to teach them about child development and how to help their child thrive through the first five years of their life. Through regular in-home visits, family support specialists offer support, share child development and parenting information, assist parents in monitoring their child's development, and offer fun ways for parents to bond with their children. In 2020, welcome baby in partnership with the united way of dane county and the road home, another non-profit, expanded services to the road home participants in an initiative called building futures. Welcome baby & beyond and building futures are offered to dane county residents and had 49 families enrolled in 2024.

Other - the other category is made up of multiple grants with purposes varying from supporting early childhood, mental health, and respite programming, direct participant support, increasing access to high-quality care and funding agency operations to include workforce recruitment and retention.