The Safe and Healthy Food Pantries Project equips Wisconsin pantries with tools and training, resulting in safer food handling and improved nutrition for pantry guests.

Since 2015, the College of Menominee Nation (CMN) has worked to address barriers to local food production, support the local economy, and increase food grown within the reservation through the Kehtekaewak Farmers’ Market.

While interest in community spaces, resources, and education for the processing and preserving of traditional Menominee foods has been long standing, the Kemāmaceqtaq team joined local partners in 2020 to move these interests forward towards their realization.

LIFT Wisconsin is a collaboration between the Economic Justice Institute, Center for Patient Partnerships, Legal Action of Wisconsin, UW Law School’s civil legal clinics, and the Employment and Training Association.

In partnership with DHS, Covering Wisconsin (CWI) planned an extensive targeted outreach campaign with strict data sharing, privacy, and security agreements.

There is limited access to substance use and mental health education in rural Great Lakes communities. The Great Lakes ROTA-RC project addresses this challenge by creating a virtual learning community.

The Behavioral Health Program delivered evidence-based mental health programs to equip community members with the skills needed to recognize and respond to signs of mental health issues.

Extension partnered with public health organizations statewide and held six deliberative dialogue sessions in three Wisconsin counties. These dialogues were facilitated using an issue guide the group created around what makes communities healthy — without using polarizing language.

Las clases de ejercicio StrongBodies en el Sixteenth Street Community Health Center en Milwaukee se dictan totalmente en español.

StrongBodies classes at the Sixteenth Street Community Health Center in Milwaukee are offered completely in Spanish.

Youth mental health has been a growing concern in Wisconsin with 1 in 5 youth ages 14-24 living with a serious mental illness and suicide being the second leading cause of death for people ages 10-34. Raise Your Voice is a youth-led program that hopes to change that.

Covering Wisconsin received a Service to the Citizen Award, given to state and federal government agencies to honor exemplary public service. They were recognized for developing and implementing a WebChat digital outreach and enrollment tool.

Extension taught a variety of stress management techniques and mindfulness to adults, adolescents and those in helping professions.

Extension’s FoodWIse and Healthy Eating Active Living Programs worked with multi-sector partners throughout 2021 to support policy, systems, and environmental changes. This included work to improve nutrition policies for community meals and systems-level changes that increased access to healthier foods for food bank participants and seniors.

UW–Madison Extension’s Behavioral Health Program provides direct education to young people and adults to build individual knowledge and skills on positive self-management, stress, and coping skills to improve mental health and reduce the risk for substance misuse.

Shifting from direct education to policy, systems and environmental (PSE) change efforts, Menominee FoodWIse Educator Chelsey LaTender saw early efforts of a Master Gardener Volunteer (MGV) in an abandoned plot as an opportunity to develop and learn with the community around garden-based education.

Cooking classes bring the whole family to the kitchen to learn techniques and strategies for enjoying healthy, nutritious meals. Through innovative virtual lessons, Polk, St. Croix and Pierce participants in Wisconsin found energy and engagement with Cooking Matters.

Partnering with public libraries, spaces where families may already frequent, FoodWIse Dane County Healthy Communities Coordinator Claire Mance modified and expanded a 2021 ‘Make it An Active Summer! Cards’ pilot program to increase physical activity for youth and families.

The SNAP-Ed funded program FoodWIse partners with McIntosh Library, Master Gardeners and Community Hunger Solutions in Viroqua, Wisconsin to develop a community education garden with Growing Together WI grants.

In Polk county, Wisconsin, the SNAP-Ed funded program FoodWIse partners with the HealthPartners Amery Hospital and Clinic, and local farming and food nonprofit Farm Table Foundation, to pilot Eating Well In Recovery.

In Portage, Wood, Marathon and Clark counties, partnerships support unique distribution models for connecting important food items to seniors with limited incomes.

In Manitowoc County, bilingual StrongBodies classes support Hmong and Southeast Asian elders as they stay active, build and maintain social connections.

Share Tables help reduce waste, reduce food costs and increase the opportunity for hungry students to eat more. Food Service Staff at Hintgen, Harry Spence, Hamilton and Summit Environmental Schools in La Crosse county quickly embraced the benefits of Share Tables in their cafeterias.

The Kemāmaceqtaq (“We’re All Moving”) team of Extension Menominee County/Nation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, worked with language and culture keepers and community artists to create a unique curriculum anchored in Menominee knowledge of the 13 moons and their associated Indigenous food practices.