Center for the Advancement of Underserved Children

About Us

The Center for the Advancement of Underserved Children (formerly Center for Advancement of Urban Children) is a cooperative endeavor between Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin (CHW) and the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW).  Its faculty and staff conducts community-oriented research and develops culturally-tailored initiatives to understand the current status of children’s health locally, Statewide, regionally and nationally.  In addition, they provide education to medical students and residents and health care to underserved children at the Downtown Health Center (DHC). 

Valuable training/community-based research is supported in the Center:

• Community-based Participatory Research (Community Health Improvement in Metcalfe and Concordia, CHIMC)
• Community Pediatrics Training Initiative (CPTI)
• Early Literacy Promotion (Reach Out and Read – Milwaukee, ROR-M)
• Emergency Preparedness (Faith-based African American Health Network, FAAHN)
• Improving Access to Health Care
• Increase Access to Oral Health Care (Healthy Teeth=Healthy Kids, Making Milwaukee Smile)
• Reducing Health Disparities in birth outcomes and children with special health care needs