Planning Council Community Reports / Resources

Milwaukee Infant Mortality Initiative Community Action
Plan .pdf format.

An African American baby born in Milwaukee is almost three times more likely to die before his or her first birthday than a white infant. A group of concerned Milwaukeeans—front-line workers and professionals, practitioners and academics, everyday citizens and experts, both black and white—came together in 2010-2011 to learn about the city’s black-white infant mortality gap and decide what to do about it. Generous funding from the Wisconsin Partnership Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and incalculable in-kind support from participating agencies and individuals led to the formation of a Lifecourse Initiative for Healthy Families (LIHF) Collaborative in Milwaukee. The Community Action Plan put forth by the Milwaukee LIHF Collaborative envisions a community where all African American families have less stress and experience healthy birth outcomes. The African American Task Force developed the following guiding principles and approved the goals and strategies of three domain task forces to develop the 2012 Community Action Plan.

Supporting Teen Families: Final Evaluation Report 2005-2010 .pdf format.

The final report summarizes the findings of five years of research done by the Planning Council on the Supporting Teen Families program in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This program, developed and implemented by Rosalie Manor Community and Family Services, works to prevent repeat teen pregnancy using a home visitation model. The goal of the program is to assist teen parents in developing assets to form safe, healthy families and to avoid repeat pregnancies. Four outcome areas were tested and analyzed:

1. Building strong family relationships;

2. Learning strategies to become self-sufficient;

3. Learning strategies to stay safe and healthy;

4. Demonstrating responsible family planning behaviors and attitudes.

The program encourages the participation of an Adult Support Person and the Father of the Baby for improved program results. The report found that teen mothers in the program had lower repeat pregnancy rates than the overall rate for the City of Milwaukee. Click the link above to read the full report.

The 2010 Milwaukee Fatherhood Summit: Summary of Participant Feedback and Overview of Child Support and Driver's License Recovery Assistance .pdf format.

The Milwaukee Fatherhood Summit is an annual event sponsored by the Milwaukee Fatherhood Initiative. The event is intended to bring the Milwaukee community together to generate support for fathers, to provide information and resources for fathers and families, and to address specific issues of fatherhood in the community.

The 2010 Milwaukee Fatherhood Summit report presents demographic information for the individuals who attended the 2010 summit, provides a summary of participant feedback about the summit, and describes the activates and accomplishments of two of the core components offered at the summit (Child Support Assistance Review and Driver's License Recovery Assistance).

Poster of Rosalie Manor "Supporting Teen Families" Evaluation - April 2010 .pdf format.

The Planning Council, in partnership with UW-Milwaukee Center for Urban Initiatives and Research, is currently evaluating a program that aims to reduce the number of repeat teen pregnancies in Milwaukee. The program, called Supporting Teen Families, is run by Rosalie Manor Community and Family Services and serves over 100 pregnant and parenting Milwaukee teen mothers annually. Preliminary program evaluation results were shared via a poster presentation at a recent U.S. Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention conference. Click on the link above to access the poster.

The 2009 Milwaukee Fatherhood Summit: Feedback Results from Summit Participants—June 2010 .pdf format.

The Milwaukee Fatherhood Summit report presents demographic information for the people who attended the 2009 summit, a summary of participant feedback on the summit overall, an overview of participant feedback on the summit's core components (Child Support Debt Reduction Assistance, Driver's License Recovery Assistance, Health Fair and Job Fair) and participant feed back on the summit's educational workshops.

The Milwaukee Fatherhood Initiative Focus Group Report: Follow-Up with 2009 Summit Attendees .pdf format

To expand on the feedback received from participants at the 2009 summit, the Planning Council conducted follow-up focus groups with summit participants. The focus groups explored the benefits summit attendees received from the summit, the ways in which attendees made use of their experiences at the summit and integrated what they had learned into their roles as fathers, and participant suggestions for future summits. This report summarizes feedback from two focus groups conducted with a small convenience sample of men, most of whom had attended the 2009 Fatherhood Summit and who received direct service assistance direct service assistance during the event.

The 2008 Milwaukee Fatherhood Summit: Feedback Results from Summit Participants—September, 2009 .pdf format.

The Milwaukee Fatherhood Summit is an annual event sponsored by the Milwaukee Fatherhood Initiative which is intended to bring together the Milwaukee community to generate support for fathers, to provide resources for men, and to address specific issues of fatherhood in the community.

This report summarizes demographic characteristics of people who registered for the 2008 summit, participants' overall ratings of the summit, participants' feedback on the major areas addressed by the summit (men's health, community job fair, child support debt reduction assistance, and driver's license recovery assistance), and feedback from the summit's educational workshops.

The Milwaukee Fatherhood Initiative Focus Group Report: Follow-Up with 2008 Summit Attendees—September 2009 .pdf format.

To expand on the feedback received from participants at the 2008 Milwaukee Fatherhood Summit, the Planning Council followed-up with a small subset of summit participants in the spring of 2009. This report summarizes feedback from three focus groups conducted with men who attended the 2008 Fatherhood Summit and who received direct service assistance during the event. The report summarizes participants' expectations prior to attending the summit, perspectives on the impact of the summit on their lives, continuing fatherhood challenges, and suggestions for future summits.

Breaking Down the Barriers, Participant Feedback: The 2009 Milwaukee Fatherhood Summit, June, 2010 .pdf format.

"Breaking Down the Barriers" was a supplemental event at the 2009 Milwaukee Fatherhood Summit that was intended to bring mothers and fathers together to discuss strategies for healthy co-parenting. The session included an interactive panel discussion featuring legal professionals, legislators, service providers and fathers. Approximately, six months after the summit, key informants interviews were conducted with panelists and attendees to explore participants' experiences of the session, suggestions for improvement and ideas for other ways that the MFI can support mothers and fathers in working together to co-parent their children. This report summarizes key themes that emerged from the interviews.

Child Care for Children who are Mildly Ill - Executive Summary June, 2000 .pdf format.

Child Care for Children with Special Needs - Executive Summary June, 1999 .pdf format.

An Overview of Early Childbearing in Racine County with Strategies for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Parenting Program - January, 1996

Neighborhood Partnerships for Early Childhood Brain Development - August, 2000