Better Ways to Cope
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Better Ways to Cope (BWTC) is a community-centered harm reduction, prevention, treatment and recovery campaign powered by the Department of Health and Human Services. This multi-faceted movement uses media platforms to promote services, regrants funds to community organizations, shares resources with community members and equips everyone with the skills to cope in a better way.
WHAT IS BETTER WAYS TO COPE (BWTC)?
Better Ways to Cope (BWTC) is a community-centered harm reduction, prevention, treatment and recovery campaign powered by the Department of Health and Human Services. This multi-faceted movement uses media platforms to promote services, grants funds to community organizations, shares resources with community members and equips everyone with the skills to cope in a better way.
BWTC Components
- Media: We use social and mass media platforms to promote services, engage the community, and educate residents across Milwaukee County. Connect with us on Facebook, join our newsletter, and subscribe to our YouTube channel playlist.
- Community: We are proud to regrant funds to community organizations across Milwaukee County. We support local influencers, community leaders, and service providers with helping Milwaukee County residents finding better ways to cope.
- Resources: We promote health and wellness resources to share with community members and organizations. Each organization, expert, program and website has a proven track record of providing quality services.
- Training: We partner with local and national experts to educate on non traditional healing practices and evidence based professional health services via online and in-person training.
Media
We use social and mass media platforms to promote services, engage the community, and educate residents across Milwaukee County. Connect with us on Facebook, join our newsletter, and subscribe to your YouTube channel playlist.
Community
We are proud to have regranted funds to community organizations across Milwaukee County. We've supported local influencers, community leaders, and service providers in helping Milwaukee County residents achieve greater wellness.
Resources
We collect health and wellness resources to share with community members and organizations. Each resource has a proven track record of providing quality services. Check out our resource page.
Training
Equipping health professionals and community members with the skills to cope in a better way via online and in-person training. Watch the training videos and download the handouts for each video.
The Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is extending its Better Ways to Cope campaign to now include regranting of Opioid Settlement Fund dollars. Since 2021, Better Ways to Cope has regranted substance abuse prevention funds to local community-based programs. We are pleased to build upon the values and track record of Better Ways to Cope to meet the serious challenge presented by our county's opioid crisis.
Milwaukee County, in partnership with Hope House Milwaukee, invite nonprofit and for-profit agencies to join the Better Ways to Cope Campaign by proposing prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery initiatives that focus on increasing access to information and resources for reducing opioid-related overdose deaths, preventing substance misuse disorder and increasing healthy coping choices.
Learn More About This Campaign
Email Jeremy Triblett at [email protected].
