Vision Statement
Mission Statement
Values Statement
Policy Statement

Vision Statement
The vision of the Wisconsin Initiative to Promote Healthy Lifestyles (WIPHL) is to help Wisconsin residents lead healthier lives.

Mission Statement
The mission of the Wisconsin Initiative to Promote Healthy Lifestyles is to ensure that all patients who receive health care in Wisconsin will routinely and systematically receive Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) services as a part of their primary health care in Wisconsin.

The WIPHL program's initial focus is unhealthy drinking and drug use, as required by its current funding source, but in coming years the program will seek and create opportunities to expand more meaningfully into other health lifestyle areas. These could include such lifestyle areas as tobacco use, nutrition and exercise, depression and other mental health disorders, domestic violence, and unsafe sexual practices.

The program is partnering with primary care clinics around the state to provide evidence-based, cost-efficient screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment services to help patients make positive changes. These services will be non-judgmental, culturally sensitive, and engage patients as the agents of positive change in their lives.

Values Statement
The Wisconsin Initiative to Promote Healthy Lifestyles:
• Values excellence in service delivery to patients that protects their confidentiality;
• Supports creative and constructive collaboration among professionals of diverse disciplines;
• Advocates for respect of cultural differences as evidenced by developing cultural awareness and cultural competence among all staff, partners, and patients we serve;
• Strives for open communication among all participants;
• Utilizes evidence-based practices; and
• Pursues ongoing quality improvement for all of our systems, services, and products.

Policy Statement
The policy goal of the Wisconsin Initiative to Promote Healthy Lifestyles is to support and improve the systematic delivery of screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment services for a variety of risky and unhealthy behaviors and mental health disorders in health care settings. This will involve forging partnerships among the federal, state, tribal, county, and local governments, health care financing organizations, health care provider organizations, health care professionals, mental health providers, employers, substance abuse treatment programs, school systems, and patients.