News

October 2, 2025

Wisconsin Community Health Worker Network announces 2025 annual conference

The WI CHW Network, in partnership with UniteWI, announced its 2025 Annual Conference, “Reignite. Reconnect. Rise Together.”, held October 29, 2025 in Wisconsin Dells.

September 15, 2025

UniteWI launches “Informed & Empowered” webinar series to support healthy pregnancies across Wisconsin

A free virtual series with maternal and infant health experts, presented with the HRSA Maternal & Child Health Bureau, the UW School of Medicine and Public Health and the WI CHW Network.

CBS 58

“Connection is the solution”: UniteWI adding 200 community health worker positions in Milwaukee

CBS 58 covered UniteWI’s announcement that it would add 200 community health workers in Milwaukee, with a focus on meeting people where they are to curb the rise in violence. The announcement kicked off with a documentary screening behind the Bradley Symphony Center.

WISN 12

Milwaukee welcomes new wave of “first responders”

WISN 12 was there as UniteWI introduced a new group of community health workers in Milwaukee: community “first responders” who help neighbors with hunger, homelessness, mental health, unemployment and more.

IFF

Bridging the gap between communities of color and the health care system: a Q&A with Bria Grant

IFF talked with UniteWI founder and executive director Bria Grant about why she founded UniteWI in 2016, building trust between communities of color and the health care system, leading through the pandemic, and UniteWI’s first real estate development project.

Dismantling cancer through the community health worker workforce

An Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment award to develop and implement a cancer screening protocol, delivered through community health workers, to support increased screening, detection and prevention in Wisconsin.