Everyone deserves the
opportunity to Be Well
We believe this deeply.
Our mission is to empower and improve individual and community health by increasing equitable access to preventative wellness services for all and centered on groups that have been historically marginalized.
Our vision is to connect local care providers with any neighborhood, community center or nonprofit organization in need of consistent, relevant, and effective preventive wellness services for those they serve.
Who we are: Be Well Madison is a fiscally sponsored nonprofit organization in Madison, Wisconsin. We connect local wellness providers who share our mission and vision with community centers and nonprofit organizations to bring wellness services to their communities.
For easy access to these providers, we have created 3 resource lists:
Ongoing/Weekly Services
Examples: Massage Therapy, Mental Health Support, Youth Nutrition Classes, Acupuncture
Workshops
Special Events
Examples: Event Participation, Co-Leading Community Conversation Circles, Panel Discussion Participation
A bit more about what it means to Be Well
Pulling from the Global Wellness Institute, we agree that wellness is the active pursuit of activities, choices and lifestyles that lead to a state of holistic health. Wellness is an individual pursuit—we have self-responsibility for our own choices, behaviors and lifestyles—but it is also significantly influenced by the physical, social and cultural environments in which we live.
We are guided by these
Key Principals
Holistic
Being well involves awareness and attendance to our mental, relational, physical, spiritual, nutritional, purposeful, environmental, and financial wellbeing.
Relationships
Relationships matter, focusing on local connection-building between providers and their fellow community members has a positive ripple effect on us all.
Listen
We listen to what is present and offer what is relevant. We don’t determine your wellness needs, you do. We work to build services that are beneficial to our local communities.
Respect
Wellness providers are often called on to give and then give more. Burn-out is real and it is an obstacle we need to address. Fair compensation for community- based wellness services is crucial to make real, sustainable change.
“Having a partnership with Be Well enabled our program to offer comprehensive one-one mental health services to our participants at a very crucial time in our community/society with the Covid-19 pandemic and all of it’s unprecedented mental health catastrophe. The opportunity for our marginalized families to receive high quality mental health services at a safe space and at no cost was immeasurable. My hopes are that some day we as a society take mental health as seriously as we do physical health to have little mental and wellness clinics in each community/neighborhood center in Madison.”
– Elsa Caetano, Youth Program Director Kennedy Heights Community Center