500+ Women Unite to Celebrate 10 Years of Teen Pregnancy Prevention
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500+ Women Unite to Celebrate 10 Years of Teen Pregnancy Prevention

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May 18, 2016

500+ attendees from our four-county region gathered Wednesday for the annual Women United Bruncheon at The Pfister Hotel. During the bruncheon, the inaugural Linda T. Mellowes “Woman Leader of the Year” award was presented. The award, named after Linda T. Mellowes – former United Way board chair and founding member of the Women’s Leadership group in 2002 – is awarded to a woman who exhibits leadership, is a role model, and gives back to our community. The recipient was Jan Martin; an early advocate for teen pregnancy prevention and a founding member of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Oversight Committee.

The team also had exciting news to share from the CDC that Milwaukee’s Teen Birth rate is currently lower than the national average. Read the press release.

Host a Healthy Youth Supply Drive!

Do you feel inspired to give back? Join us in collecting supplies to support our Healthy Youth agencies. Learn more.

10 Years & 10 Voices

Watch the video shown at the bruncheon featuring the collaborative work of the Milwaukee Health Department, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Serve Marketing, Aurora Health Care, Women’s Leadership Council and United Way over the last 10 years to help lower the teen birth rate in Milwaukee.

Investing in Impact

Since the launch of the Women’s Leadership program, 2,000 local women have invested over $100 million in evidence-based programming to help thousands of young people in our community make positive choices. Nichelle was part of one of those programs, Making Proud Choices, at PEARLS for Teen Girls. Read her blog about how the program helped her unveil her authentic self. 

View 10 year timeline of our Teen Pregnancy Prevention progress.

Launching the Amazing Ad Campaigns

Many have worked hard over the past 10 years to help reduce the teen birth rate. Read Gary Mueller' blog on what it took to make the bold teen pregnancy prevention campaigns a reality. View all campaigns.

Thank You!

To our event sponsor Aurora Health Care. Thanks to all our wonderful table sponsors, and all attendees who came to the Women United Bruncheon. This annual event would not have been a success without you!

Gold Table Sponsors: Aurora Health Care, Baird, BMO Harris Bank, Bon-Ton Stores, Inc., CBRE, Charter Manufacturing Co., Inc, Godfrey & Kahn S.C., Johnson Controls, Inc., Jan Martin, MillerCoors, Northwestern Mutual, Rockwell Automation, von Briesen & Roper, s.c.

Silver Table Sponsors: Badger Meter, Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, City of Milwaukee Health Department, Deloitte, Foley & Lardner LLP, GE Distributed Power, Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Johnson Bank, Luther Manor, ManpowerGroup, Marcus Hotels & Resorts, Marquette University, Medical College of Wisconsin, MGIC, Michael Best & Friedrich, ProHealth Care, PwC, Quarles & Brady LLP, Rexnord, Lynn Sprangers, Wheaton Franciscan - St. Joseph Foundation, Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C., Zilber Ltd.

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