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Supporting Families - The goal of this document is to serve as a template that your community could use to create a basic resource sheet for families. Resources for families are unique to each community and no one knows those resources better than the people who live there! Included in this resources sheet are some general/portal resources to help connect families to more specific resources as well as suggestions for community resources you may want to include. The list is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather a place for you to offer a starting point to support a family whatever their needs are. Connecting Families and Caregivers to Resources that Support and Promote Positive Mental Health and Wellness The Maternal Child Hotline: 1-800-722-2295 Twenty-four hours/day, 7 days/week The Wisconsin Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Hotline provides information and links to services and resources for women before, during, and after pregnancy and for children including children with special health care needs. 2 - 1 - 1 Please take a moment to customize this for your community Your local Library: _____________________________________________________________________ Your local Family Resource Center: ___________________________________________________ Your local Birth to 3 agency: ___________________________________________________________ Your local Child Care Resource and Referral agency:

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Supporting Families -Where Do You The goal of this document is to serve as a template that your community could use to create a basic

resource sheet for families. Resources for families are unique to each community and no one knows those resources better than the people who live there!

Included in this resources sheet are some general/portal resources to help connect families to more specific resources as well as suggestions for community resources you may want to include. The list is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather a place for you to offer a starting point to support a family whatever their needs are.

Connecting Families and Caregivers to Resources that Support and Promote Positive Mental Health and Wellness

The Maternal Child Hotline: 1-800-722-2295

Twenty-four hours/day, 7 days/week

The Wisconsin Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Hotline provides information and links to services and resources for women before, during, and after pregnancy and for children including children with special health care needs.

2 -1 -1Twenty-four hours/day, 7 days/week

2-1-1 access is available for all Wisconsin counties. When you dial 2-1-1, you will talk to a trained resource specialist who has access to a comprehensive database listings of nearly all health and human services that exists in your community. Information and referral is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week throughout the year.

Wisconsin Family Ties: 800 -422 -7145Available Monday-Friday from 9:00 am-5:00 pm

Please take a moment to customize this for your community

Your local Library: _____________________________________________________________________

Your local Family Resource Center: ___________________________________________________

Your local Birth to 3 agency: ___________________________________________________________

Your local Child Care Resource and Referral agency: ________________________________

Your regional center for Children and Youth with special care needs: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________