The staffing shortage has turned into a crisis around northeast Wisconsin, leading to dangerous conditions at some nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
Tag: NEW News Lab
The NEW News Lab is a local news collaboration in Northeast Wisconsin made up of six news outlets: FoxValley365, The Post-Crescent, Green Bay Press-Gazette, The Press Times, Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Watch, that is advancing in-depth local reporting on topics such as racism as a public health crisis, lack of affordable housing, funding of local schools, and coverage of local judicial systems.
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay’s Journalism Department is an educational partner. Microsoft is providing financial support to the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation and Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region to fund the initiative.
Posted inHealth & Welfare
Wisconsin foster children often need mental health care to thrive. Why is it hard to help them?
Removed from home, deeply traumatized, foster children often need counseling. But even with activist foster parents, it can be hard to get.
Posted inEconomy
Rising cost of living in northeast Wisconsin has many working families treading water
A dearth of affordable housing and the cost and availability of child care remain barriers to opportunity for many working families in the northeast region
Posted inEducation
One in 5 could have dyslexia, but Wisconsin students, parents feel school support falls short
Often, people assume that dyslexia is just mixing up letters such as “b” and “d.” It can be that for some people, but that’s not the only symptom.
Posted inEconomy, Education
Should Wisconsin fund child care like it does roads? Here are some solutions to the child care crisis
Industry experts and child care providers say effectively addressing needs will require the efforts of government, employers and families.
Posted inEconomy, Education
It takes a village: How collaboration helped a small northern Wisconsin city add crucial child care
Langlade County, where Antigo is located, is a child care desert: an area either without child care or where there’s fewer than one slot per three children.
Posted inNews about Wisconsin Watch
Wisconsin families matter. Here’s how 6 newsrooms, 2 community foundations and Microsoft aim to help
Microsoft’s NEW News Lab is working to spotlight Wisconsin family struggles
Posted inHealth & Welfare
Six-week waits, one counselor for eight rural districts: These are some of the hurdles facing youth mental health
Families and schools alike are scrambling to get the mental health care their children need to thrive. Providers are stretched thin. What’s going on?
Posted inHealth & Welfare
As one in eight kids go hungry and schools struggle to feed kids, Wisconsin has a chance to turn the tables
The end of free lunch leaves families struggling to feed their kids and nutrition departments under-funded as they navigate families who can’t pay.
Posted inEconomy, Health & Welfare
High child care costs, low accessibility leads to smaller Wisconsin families
Unaffordable child care means, Wisconsin parents work less, earn less and stress more.
Posted inJustice & Safety
Top Sheboygan officials lacked key details on police department sexual harassment probes
Citizen oversight board was not involved in reviewing police investigation; mayor says he was unaware independent review ordered by city had been halted.
Posted inJustice & Safety
Sheboygan anti-abuse group calls for accountability from police department
‘The eyes of the Sheboygan community are on the police department and city administration in how they handle these allegations,’ Safe Harbor says