Sheboygan County Health and Human Services Trauma Informed Care

06/10/2026

Taking care of your mental health is just as crucial as focusing on your physical health. But it can be hard to figure out how to get help, especially when you’re not feeling your best.

Whether you’re coping with anxiety, depression, a substance use disorder, grief, or something else, there are organizations that can help you — often for free. Here are some to reach out to when you need mental health support.

This list of resources, organized by condition and circumstance, has sources for finding information, support, treatment, and immediate help.

06/10/2026

06/09/2026

Millions of individuals across America want to help people in poverty. These two leaders have a plan to unite them all.

Faith communities are an underutilized resource in the fight against America’s biggest societal problems. That’s the driving ethos at Love Has No Limits, a volunteer movement that’s helping connect faith communities with nonprofits to create high-impact solutions to issues like poverty, homelessness, and the child welfare crisis.

Led by Dominic Russo and Jedidiah Thurner, Love Has No Limits believes that the missing ingredient of many effective anti-poverty solutions is passionate people who want to make a difference. The good news? Places of worship are full of them. What’s been lacking, however, are concentrated efforts to connect these communities with nonprofits that share similar values and goals.

Love Has No Limits is helping to foster those connections. After a year of behind-the-scenes collaboration, the organization launched a massive campaign called One Day LA, a major goal of which was to help close child welfare cases and connect children in need with foster or adoptive families. The successful results demonstrate how bottom-up solutions can outperform some of the top-down strategies that have been failing American communities for decades.

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06/08/2026

For fathers who are estranged from their children or children who are estranged from their fathers, Father's Day can be an incredibly painful time. It seems like the entire world is joyfully celebrating fatherhood while you struggle with a fractured relationship and grieve the bond you wish you had.

More than one in four Americans are currently estranged from a family member, and more than two in five have experienced family estrangement at some point. However, in spite of its prevalence, estrangement is still seen as taboo. Stigma and shame exacerbate the pain and loss of those cut off from the people they love.

A certified grief support specialist offers advice to help estranged fathers and children get through Father’s Day.

06/08/2026

For many survivors of complex trauma, going to the dentist can feel overwhelming, frightening, and sometimes retraumatising.

If this is how you feel, you are not alone. In the context of your experiences, it makes sense.

Aspects of dental care can mirror past trauma, including feeling vulnerable, having limited control, and experiencing physical intrusion. Because of this, your body may respond as if the trauma is happening again, even when you know you are safe.

Why do visits to the dentist often feel so difficult?

For survivors of complex trauma, going to the dentist can feel overwhelming, frightening, and sometimes retraumatising. Our tips can help.

06/07/2026

Providing compassionate care isn't just a choice that health care workers make; it requires larger systems and leaders to support it.

06/06/2026

Gen Alpha kids are becom­ing pro­fi­cient with hand­held tech­nol­o­gy at younger ages than pre­vi­ous gen­er­a­tions, with 40% hav­ing a tablet by age 2, 58% hav­ing one by age 4 and almost one in four kids hav­ing a per­son­al cell phone by age 8. As a result, they are engag­ing with social media ear­ly on in their devel­op­ment and exhibit­ing pref­er­ences for cer­tain apps and platforms.

A study of Gen Alpha’s social media usage shows that they favor apps that fea­ture short, atten­tion-grab­bing con­tent. YouTube is the most pop­u­lar video app for Gen Alpha kids, who spend an aver­age of 84 min­utes a day on the plat­form — con­sum­ing a vast array of enter­tain­ment and edu­ca­tion­al pro­gram­ming. Tik­Tok is anoth­er pop­u­lar plat­form among Gen Alpha, who enjoy its engag­ing, short-form videos. In fact, as of 2019–2021, more than two-thirds (68%) of social media users ages 11–12 had Tik­Tok accounts accord­ing to a 2025 study in Aca­d­e­m­ic Pedi­atrics. Although Tik­Tok and YouTube have an age min­i­mum of 13, they are still pop­u­lar with Alphas, espe­cial­ly old­er Alphas who find ways to cir­cum­vent the age restrictions.

Gen Alpha’s reg­u­lar con­sump­tion of video con­tent fos­ters a sense of trust and admi­ra­tion for con­tent cre­ators and social media influ­encers. In fact — when it comes to prod­uct rec­om­men­da­tions — almost half of Gen Alphas say that they trust their favorite influ­encers as much as their own fam­i­ly mem­bers. Gen Alpha is also increas­ing­ly turn­ing to social media instead of search engines to meet their infor­ma­tion needs.

What are the impacts?

Explore how social media shapes the development, behavior and well-being of Generation Alpha as well as its lasting impact on their lives and interactions.