Mission

The Bureau of Prevention, Treatment and Recovery (BPTR) is the designated state mental health authority responsible for the direction of public mental health services in Wisconsin with an emphasis on serving adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses and children with severe emotional disturbance.

Recognizing that Wisconsin's public mental health system is based on local control, BPTR carries out its mission through collaboration with counties, providers, consumers, and their families.

We set policies, program directions and standards and develop funding mechanisms that foster the development of state of the art mental health service approaches.

We accomplish this through long and short term planning, evaluation and data collection, as well as program oversight and monitoring.

We provide technical assistance and consultation to assist in the development of high quality services that are directed by wishes and preferences of families and consumers.

All of our activities are designed to promote positive attitudes about the people we serve and their abilities and potential.

We collaborate with and educate elected officials and other state and federal agencies about the needs of the people we serve so they develop funding streams, policy directions and service programs that assist our consumers to lead satisfying lives in least restrictive settings in their home communities.

It is also our responsibility to collaborate with educational institutions to ensure that the students they are training for the mental health field possess the kinds of skills and knowledge's that are needed to deliver modern mental health services.

Last Revised: October 06, 2009