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MCW Student and Resident Behavioral Health Inclusive Community Connections

See what makes Milwaukee a great place to live and learn. Being new to a city can be difficult, and it may be hard to find your community. While we hope you’ll find support here on campus, it can help to connect to groups and resources in the community at large.

Our goals are two-fold:

1) Increase access and awareness of culturally specific wellbeing resources in the community.

2) Decrease isolation for incoming and existing URM learners here at MCW.

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Inclusive Community Resources

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Counseling & Mental Health

Note: Unfortunately you are not able to use your free-to-you sessions provided by MCW at these providers.

Aurora Family Service Family Counseling Clinic
Offering a bilingual and culturally diverse staff

Bloom Art and Integrated Therapies

Healing Intergenerational Roots (HIR) for All Nations, One Tribe
Mental health and wellbeing support from an Indigenous architypes perspective

Hilton Morris, LPC
(414) 292-9038

Lakiesha Russell, LPC

Sebastian Family Psychology Practice
Including special focus on refugee mental health

Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers
Serving the Latinx community for over 50 years

The Evolving Chair Counseling and Consulting Agency

Gathering Around Ethnicity Identity & Faith
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The Benedict Center
The Benedict Center provides services and support to women in the criminal justice system so they can live safer, healthier lives for themselves, their children and the community we all share.

Common Ground
A non-partisan group of ordinary citizens of Southeast Wisconsin, dedicated to identifying problems facing our community and implementing creative solutions.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation

Nō Studios
Create a collaborative workspace and social community that offers an environment for artists and art lovers to come together.

Pathfinders
Nonprofit organization serving youth in crisis

Sojourner Family Peace Center
Helping families affected by domestic violence

Walnut Way
Sustain transformation by advancing an economically diverse and abundant community through civic engagement, environmental stewardship and creating venues for prosperity.

Grief & Loss Support (including loss from suicide)
Professional & Social Networking

Cream City Medical Society
The first and only Milwaukee-based 501(c) (3) organization of African American physicians. It is a charter chapter of the National Medical Association, which is the nation’s oldest, and largest association representing African American physicians.

Hispanic Professionals of Greater Milwaukee

Milwaukee Black Professionals Facebook group

Milwaukee Jewish Federation Young Leadership Division 

Milwaukee Latino Health Coalition

The Milwaukee Urban League

Pakistan Physician Society of Wisconsin

Prohispanica
Hispanic professional network

Social X MKE
A young professional (YP) diversity and inclusion consulting group focusing on six distinct areas: Social Impact, Health and Wellness, Arts & Culture, Community Service, Personal & Professional Development and Talent Retention and Recruitment.

Recreation, Dining & Entertainment

Baked Dreams Creations

Blue Star Café (East African food)
1619 N. Farwell Ave.

Bowlero Bowl

Brownstone Social Lounge
524 N. Water St.

Coffee Makes You Black
2803 N. Teutonia Ave.

Daddy’s Soul Food & Grille
754 N. 27th St.

El Rey
Hispanic grocery store

Fondy's Farmer Market

Garfields 502

Heaven's Table BBQ MKE

Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Wisconsin

Latino Chamber of Commerce of Southeast Wisconsin

Mi Casa Su Café (Healthy food with lots of plant based options)
1835 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Dr.

MKE Black
Explore Milwaukee’s Black Businesses

Pop’s Food Truck (BBQ Memphis style)
7605 W. Good Hope Rd.

Rise and Grind Café
2737 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Dr.

Yarn Junkie and Gifts
Black Owned Business, yarn and handmade yarn gifts

Yummy Bones BBQ

Self-Care

Gee’s Clippers Barber and Beauty Salon

KRS Hair and Wax Studio

Value Beauty Supply – various locations

Wellbeing & Holistic Healing

Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM)

Black Space HQ
Group therapy experience

Call Blackline: 1 (800) 604-5841
Space for peer support, counseling, reporting of mistreatment, witnessing and affirming the lived experiences of Black, Indigenous and other people of color. Call or text.

Embody Yoga

Fear MKE | Visit Fear MKE Facebook page
As a sub group of Social x MKE, this running group is focused on empowering and improving the health of minority professionals in the community. Following once or twice a week runs in the Milwaukee area, FEAR often meets up for happy hours to socialize and network with other members!

Full Circle Healing
A family-run farm, apothecary and healing center.

HoneyBee Sage Wellness & Apothecary

Project Resiliency: 1 (800) 293-7080
Hmong peer-run “warm line”; Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sherman Phoenix
A hub for “healing our city by generating positive economic and social returns in communities of color.”

The Zen Dragonfly
Reiki, yoga, holistic healing

Therapy for Black Girls podcast
A weekly chat about all things mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves.

Have we missed a Milwaukee gem?

Please send your suggestions to Dr. David Cipriano at dcipriano@mcw.edu.

Office of Diversity and Inclusion

For more resources, visit the MCW Office of Diversity and Inclusion website.

Good Neighbor List

A list of diverse vendors in the metro-Milwaukee area. These are BIPOC, Veteran, LGBTQ+, Women and Persons with Disabilities-owned businesses covering a range of goods and services.

View current list (Google Docs)