2011 ANNUAL REPORT - St. Aemilian-Lakeside, Inc.

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dear friends >
Dear Friends of St. Aemilian-Lakeside:
The year 2011 truly was a milestone year for us.
We grew and changed to meet the needs of our
community, and we are now fortunate enough to
touch the lives of about 2,000 people each day.
Our growth increased the scope and the quality
of our services to children and families. Many
individual achievements contributed to our overall
success, lighting the way for even more future
accomplishment. Many of these achievements were
made possible with your support, and we’d like to
share just a few highlights:
On March 30, we held a symposium, “Creating a
Trauma Informed Community,” which was attended
by 720 guests and showcased presentations on the
effects of trauma and trauma informed care by national
experts, Doctors Robert Anda and Bruce Perry.
Approximately 400 individuals have attended
our trauma informed care training programs, which
permits us to spread our knowledge of this critical
subject more widely throughout our community.
The Houston-based ChildTrauma Academy
certified 37 of our staff members with Phase One
Certification on the “neurosequential model of
therapeutics.” This innovative approach assesses a
child’s functioning and produces a brain map that
identifies the child’s strengths and deficiencies and
recommends interventions to create positive change.
The Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare was
revamped, and we now provide half of the foster
care services for Milwaukee County, and ongoing
case management, intensive in-home services and
adoption services.
We hired more than 70 new staff to meet the
increasing needs of our foster care, family preservation
and family interaction services.
We were re-accredited by the Council on
Accreditation (COA), an independent not-forprofit
international accreditor of communitybased
behavioral health care and human service
organizations. We have been accredited since 1987,
and we became one of a very few organizations
nationally and the first in Milwaukee to receive
accreditation for child welfare work through
ongoing case management and safety services.
Ann Leinfelder Grove, our vice president
for Strategy and Innovation, was appointed by
Gov. Scott Walker to serve for three years on
the Council on Mental Health, which advises
the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
She also was named to the Healthy Wisconsin
Leadership Institute, a continuing education and
training program supported by the University of
Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
and the Medical College of Wisconsin. Her work
focuses on the importance of creating a traumainformed
community and a much wider awareness
of this important issue.
We are proud of our success and grateful for your
interest and support. Please take satisfaction in each
of our accomplishments, as we consider each of
you to be part of our team. We look forward to the
coming year and our opportunity to work with you
to make a difference in our community.
Sincerely,
Teri Zywicki,
President and CEO
James Peterson
Chairman of the Board
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