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State Spotlight - Wisconsin
 Last updated: February 2009
Ann Rulseh
CJA Grant Coordinator
Department of Justice
Children’s Justice Act
P.O. Box 7951, 17 West Main Street
Madison, WI 53707-7951
Phone: 608-266-3934
Fax: 608-264-6368
Email: rulseham@doj.state.wi.us
Abby Collier
Child Death Review Project Manager
Children’s Health Alliance of Wisconsin
620 South 76th Street
Suite 120
Milwaukee, WI 53214
Phone: 414-292-4016
Fax: 414-231-4972
Email: AJCollier@chw.org
Website: http://www.chawisconsin.org/cdr.htm
Tools
Mortality Statistics
Program Description
Administration
Wisconsin’s Child Death Review (CDR) Program was established in 1999. There are no statutes or rules promulgated for CDR in Wisconsin. The state CDR team is housed within the Department of Justice, Office of Crime Victim Services with partial funding through the Children’s Justice Act grant program. Wisconsin is a member of the Midwest Coalition on Child Fatalities.
Keeping Kids Alive in Wisconsin is a three year grant funded by the UW School of Medicine and Public Health Wisconsin Partnership Program. This grant was awarded to Children’s Health Alliance of Wisconsin in collaboration with the Injury Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin. The Keeping Kids Alive in Wisconsin strives to develop local CDR teams in Wisconsin counties, support legislation for CDR activities, and increase data collection and analysis. Keeping Kids Alive in Wisconsin: Child Death Review Team Guidelines provides counties with step by step assistance on how to organize and implement a CDR team. Additional technical assistance related to data collection and prevention is also available to teams.
Teams
Wisconsin has both state and local CFR teams.
State Team: (Chairperson - William Perloff, MD, PhD)
The team is comprised of 24 members and meets four times per year. The team has four primary goals:
- Advise the legislature and state agencies on the need for modifications to law, policy or practice.
- Educate the public regarding the incidence and causes of child deaths, and specific steps the public can take to prevent future deaths.
- Identify training needs and make training resources available to professional organizations, advocacy groups and others statewide.
- Facilitate the development of local/regional CDR teams.
Local Teams:
There are 19 local teams in Wisconsin. Ten of these teams have been established for more than three years. In addition, ten counties are actively planning to implement CDR teams in the future.
Reviews
Local CDR teams acknowledge and review all deaths to children under the age of 18. CDR teams are encouraged to follow the model proposed in Keeping Kids Alive in Wisconsin: Child Death Review Team Guidelines. This model is based on the Maternal Child Health (MCH) National Center for Child Death Review framework.
Wisconsin also has Fetal Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) teams. These teams are located in the cities of Milwaukee, Racine and Madison. A Maternal Mortality Review process is in place statewide. All Wisconsin review teams are working toward increasing communication and collaboration.
Purpose
The primary purpose of the Wisconsin CDR program is to prevent future deaths. Local CDR teams strive to uncover the risk factors and circumstances influencing the death of a child in order to ensure prevention activities are targeted.
Data
Wisconsin urges all local CDR teams to enter data into the National MCH CDR Case Reporting System. Technical assistance is available to local teams to assist with database training, access and data analysis.
Annual Report
Wisconsin does not produce an annual report, although an outline for a future report has been created.
Prevention Initiatives
Several local CDR teams and organizations are working on prevention activities.
Protocols
Keeping Kids Alive in Wisconsin: Child Death Review Team Guidelines have been developed and are available online at www.chawisconsin.org/cdr.htm. Hard copies can be obtained by contacting Abby Collier at (414) 292-4016 or AJCollier@chw.org.
Training
Regional CDR team trainings were conducted in 2007 and 2008. The CDR training led to the creation of local CDR teams and increased statewide communication. Future regional trainings will be conducted as needed throughout Wisconsin.
A statewide CDR summit is being planned for fall 2009.
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