Partner Summit | Waukesha County

Waukesha County Community Health Partner Summit

Thank you to our generous sponsors for helping make the November 11, 2025 event possible.

Click here to download the official guidebook for our event.

Building Bridges, Creating Impact

A Day of Connection, Collaboration, and Community Health Inspiration

Waukesha County Public Health was proud to host its first-ever Community Health Partner Summit, a full day dedicated to connection, collaboration, and community health inspiration. The event brought together local leaders, organizations, and changemakers who are committed to strengthening the health and well-being of Waukesha County.

As Public Health continued advancing its role as a Chief Health Strategist, this inaugural summit marked an exciting milestone. Throughout the day, partners explored new opportunities to align efforts, share ideas, and build the stronger, more interconnected systems our community needs to thrive.

A heartfelt thank-you goes out to our event sponsors, whose generous support helped make this summit possible. Your commitment to community health fueled meaningful conversations, sparked creative problem-solving, and laid the groundwork for ongoing collaboration across the county.

To extend the impact of the summit, we have begun sharing event photos online, capturing the energy and engagement of the day. We will also be adding links to each presentation (in the agenda below), so partners can revisit the materials, share them with their teams, or explore sessions they may have missed.

Together, we created a day that not only celebrated partnership, but strengthened it.

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Attendee Pictures

Opening Speakers, Keynote, Healthcare Panel & Honor Guard

Afternoon Breakout Sessions

Event Agenda (View Event Pictures Here: (Morning Sessions, Vendor & Attendees & Breakout Sessions)
8:30am	Welcome	Frances Thomas, PH Supervior & Courtney Nathan, PH Strategist
8:35am	Event Introduction	Benjamen Jones, Public Health Manager & Health Officer
8:40am	Health & Human Services Introduction	Elizabeth Aldred, Waukesha County Health and Human Services Director
8:50am	County Executive Introduction	Paul Farrow, Waukesha County Executive
9:00 - 9:50am	Keynote: Rethinking Work: A Journey Toward Well-Being	Maddy Becker & Brandon Moore, Kapco Incorporated / Kacmarcik Center for Human Performance
9:50-10:00am	Break
10:00-11:00am	A Panel Discussion between Healthcare & Public Health: Aligning Assessments, Amplifying Voices: Cross-Sector Collaboration for Healthier Communities	Andy Dresang, Froedtert, Executive Director of Community Engagement
		Sarah Butz, ProHealth Care, Director of Community Benefit
		Hailey Nenonen, Aurora Advocate Health, Community Outreach Manager
		Bridget Clementi, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Vice-President, Community Health
		Benjamen Jones, Waukesha County Public Health Manager & Health Officer
		Terri Phillips, SJD Consulting, Panel Facilitator
11:00-12:30pm	Veterans Dedication, then Lunch, Resource Tables & Networking
12:30-1:15pm (Breakout Session 1)	Room A Voices of Hope: A Youth’s Perspective on Mental Health Supports	Room B Together, We Are the Difference: Stories from the Substance Use Team	Room C Growing Older, Growing Together: A Panel on Healthy Aging
1:20-2:05pm (Breakout Session 2)	Room A Let's Talk; A Panel on Funding, Collaboration & Innovation	Room B Building Healthier Communities: The Social Drivers of Health	Room C Choose Your Own Adventure: Advancing Partnerships at the Intersection of Housing and Substance Use
2:05-2:20	Break
2:20-3:05pm (Breakout Session 3)	Room A From Blueprints to Better Health: Why Habitat’s Model Works	Room B From Pitch to Partnership: Working Effectively with the Media	Room C A Multidisciplinary Approach to Treating Perinatal Opioid Use Disorder
3:05-3:30	Break
3:30-4:00	Closing/Networking

Aurora Health Care
EZ Promotions
Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin
ProHealth Care
Waukesha County Technical College (WCTC)

Waukesha County Public Health is a division within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and as part of our responsibility, we lead the development and implementation of the county’s Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP).

This work is grounded in the principles of Public Health 3.0, which calls on local health departments to serve as chief health strategists—convening cross-sector partners, leveraging data, and aligning community resources to improve population health.

To move this work forward, stronger collaboration is essential. That’s why we’re hosting this event—to bring together a diverse group of partners, align our efforts, and work collectively toward a healthier Waukesha County.

What We Hope Attendees Left With

Better Understanding of CHIP Goals & How You Fit In — Clarity about the county’s health priorities; how your organization or group can contribute.

New Connections & Partnerships — You’ll meet people/organizations working in different sectors who may become collaborators to address health challenges together.

Practical Tools & Ideas — Strategies, frameworks, examples of innovation in community health that you can adapt or scale in your own work.

Shared Vision & Momentum — A sense of collective purpose: aligning resources, data, and efforts toward stronger, more connected systems of care.

Resources & Inspiration — Access to expertise, possibly data, case studies, or frameworks to help move projects forward — plus fresh ideas sparked from hearing what others are doing locally.