The Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) has received a seed grant valued at $50,000 from the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (AHW), to support teen parents in its high schools. There are more than two dozen documented student-parents across MMSD’s six high schools.
According to a project summary on the AHW website, the grant will clear a path for “recent teen parent graduates, school staff, health care providers, and community partners to develop and implement … tailored health assessments, connections to prenatal care and doulas, mental health counseling, peer support networks, and educational mentoring” for eligible MMSD students.
This grant is one of 66 that AHW will fund throughout the state for the 12 months spanning January–December 2025, amounting to approximately $3.9 million in total. Other benefiting initiatives include those focused on housing security; mental health services; healthy food access; suicide prevention; refugee and immigrant integration programs; and sexually transmitted disease prevention and treatment.
AHW is a part of the Medical College of Wisconsin.
