Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Children's Wisconsin committed to improving mental health services. It's working.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Children's Wisconsin committed to improving mental health services. It's working.

It's been a little less than five years since Children's Wisconsin launched an ambitious five-year plan to significantly improve access to behavioral health care for children and adolescents. Now, those efforts have culminated into a name that's here to stay: the Craig Yabuki Mental Health Center.

The official name and designation comes on the heels of Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction releasing the results of the 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey last week. Educators, researchers and mental health advocates have once again sounded the alarm that the intensifying youth mental health crisis isn't going anywhere.

Neither is the Craig Yabuki Mental Health Center.

The name may be familiar to those who have spent time at Children's main campus in Wauwatosa in the last year and a half. Children's Wisconsin opened the doors of the Craig Yabuki Mental Health Walk-in Clinic in March 2022, less than a year after former Fiserv Inc. CEO Jeffrey Yabukidonated $20 million to put therapists in every Children's primary care and urgent care office in southeastern Wisconsin. It was named in memory of Jeffrey's brother, Craig Yabuki, who died by suicide in 2017.

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