Resources

• Burnett County Family Resource Center
  • Offers educational programs, resources, activities, and support by partnering and collaborating with parents and communities.
• Burnett County Family Literacy
  • A non-profit organization committed to enriching the quality of life and learning for adults, children, and families through individualized basic literacy instruction, personal relationships, and community building in Burnett County.
• Western Regional Center for Children with Special Health Care Needs
  • Support families with children and youth with special needs and the providers who serve them. Free and confidential services include information, referral, and problem-solving, parent support, help understanding insurance coverage and applications, transition planning and connections to community resources.
• Healthy Families: Resources for Parents and Providers
  • Reliable health information for pregnant moms and new families is easily available to parents, families, and providers.
• Interfaith Caregivers of Burnett County
  • A volunteer organization who provides assistance to those who cannot afford to provide it for themselves, such as wheelchair ramps, transportation, furniture, and firewood. If you need assistance call 715-866-4970.
• UW-Madison Extension Parenting the Preschooler Fact Sheets
  • Fact sheets to help you learn about what toddlers go through developmentally, show how you can help with confidence and love, and teach you how to stay connected to a rapidly growing and changing child.
• UW-Madison Extension Youth and Family Programs
  • Offers programs that focus on social and emotional learning; improving family functioning; increasing financial capability; and leadership development.

Churches

Community Calendar

Education

• Burnett County Farmers’ Markets
  • Located in Alpha, Grantsburg and Siren
• FoodShare
  • Helps people with limited money buy the food they need for good nutrition and health.
  • For FoodShare screening and application assistance, call your local FoodShare Outreach Specialist, at 715-496-3121.
• Food Shelves and Distributions
  • ICAA Burnett County Food Pantry located at 26356 Lakeland Ave S. Webster, WI. Phone: 715-349-8155.
• FoodWIse
  • Seeks to empower Wisconsin residents with limited incomes to make healthy choices to achieve healthy lives and reduce health disparities.
• WIC (Women, Infants, and Children)
  • A nutrition program for pregnant, breastfeeding, postpartum women, infants and children up to age five.

• Veteran Services
  • The Supportive Services for Veteran Families program promotes housing stability for homeless and very low-income Veteran families. We can assist with rent, security deposits, utilities, moving costs, child care, transportation and other services.

Other Government Agencies & Programs

• Burnett Medical Center
  • Burnett Medical Center consists of a clinic, specialty clinic, hospital, and nursing home all under one roof. A variety of health and wellness classes are also offered on a regular basis.
• Ruby’s Well Care
  • Provide free primary healthcare services to Polk and Burnett County residents with low resources. This includes both the uninsured and the underinsured.
• Webster Health Center
  • The Webster Health Center offers a specialty clinic, family medicine clinic and a dental clinic with Dr. Benjamin McKinley, DDS. The Webster Health Center also offers a variety of fitness classes.

• Salvation Army
• Wisconsin Home Energy Assistance Program

• Behavioral Health and Community Programs
  • Programs provided through Burnett County Department of Health and Human Services – Behavioral Health Unit.
• Coordinated Services Team (CST)
  • Develop a comprehensive, individualized system of care for children with complex behavioral health needs. Includes family members, service providers, and others that work to develop and carry out a coordinated services plan for the child.
• New Beginnings Meetings
  • Various meetings held every day of the week to help people achieve sobriety and a healthy lifestyle.
• Northwest Passage
  • A national leader in residential mental health assessment and treatment for youth ages 6-17. Referrals may be initiated by parents or professionals working with a child in need of services. Please visit Admissions for more information
• Mental Health Task Force of Burnett County (MHTFBC)
  • MHTFBC is committed to implementing and maintaining sustainable suicide prevention programming with an emphasis on youth suicide prevention efforts.
• Restorative Justice of Northwest Wisconsin
  • A community-based response to crime that invites those affected, the victim, the community, and the offender to address the full impact of the crime and ways to repair the harm.
• Wellbriety Meeting
• Other

Move More Sit Less Brochure

• A list of activities to do in each town of Burnett County.

• Community Referral Agency
• Emergency Contact Information

• ADRC Transportation Services
  • ADRC provides non-emergency medical transportation to people with disabilities, or people age 60 and over, who reside in Burnett and Polk Counties.
• MTM Transportation Services
  • MTM provides medical transportation services for Wisconsin Medicaid and BadgerCare Plus Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT).