Valued Voice

Registration is now open for the first ever WHA Mental Health and Addiction Care Conference on Wednesday, Oct. 18, in Wisconsin Dells. This in-person only conference provides an opportunity for WHA members and their invited community partners such as local crisis service agencies, local county human service departments, local law enforcement and others to gather to hear and discuss mental health care delivery innovations and opportunities.
 
Confirmed presentations include:

• Development of the new Milwaukee Mental Health Emergency Center serving as a dedicated psychiatric emergency department
• Health Partners’ telehealth crisis service serving western Wisconsin hospitals and their post-acute crisis beds operating in eastern Minnesota
• Review of Wisconsin’s emergency detention, crisis services, and mental health reimbursement statutes and rules to help set a foundation for identifying opportunities for local service delivery innovation, and
• Discussion of opportunities for reshaping Wisconsin’s mental health system at a local and statewide level. 

Additional presentations on other mental health and substance use disorder care delivery models and innovations are being finalized and will be added to the agenda as confirmed.  
 
For more information on the conference, including registration, click here. The registration page and agenda will be updated as additional presentations and speakers are confirmed.