Family Living
Mission Statement:
To promote thriving families and communities in Milwaukee County through research-based education.
Who we are…
Milwaukee County UW Cooperative Extension Family Living Programs support our communities’ families through a variety of educational programming. Our staff engages family support agencies in research-based professional development opportunities and technical assistance, including: home visitors, supervisors, case managers, early childhood educators, health care professionals and others. Since 1998, our staff has coordinated a financial literacy education program that assists ‘unbanked’ individuals to open accounts with financial institution program partners. We also helped develop a new poverty education curriculum that address the complex issues surrounding poverty in our culture. Another important role we each have is to work in partnership with community agencies and businesses to build capacity around issues affecting families, through active membership on local and state coalition/initiatives. For a list of our upcoming trainings and workshops, please visit our Upcoming Trainings page.
Family Living News 
Program Highlights:
Professional Training for Home Visitors
Home Visitation programs promote parent and child interaction, healthy child development, and positive parenting skills and decrease child abuse and neglect among low income families. UW-Extension trains professionals who visit families in their homes during pregnancy, at birth and through the first year or more of the child’s life. To learn more, go to our Home Visitation page.
Poverty Awareness for Community Engagement (PACE)
Milwaukee County UW-Extension offers custom-designed training for professionals who work with people living in poverty. This training provides key lessons for understanding social class, gender, white privilege, oppression, and racism. PACE also includes poverty simulations. The simulation expereince is designed to help participants begin to understand what it might be like to live in a typical low-income family trying to survive from month to month. For more information, go to our Poverty page.
