Nearly $600,000 to come to Sherman Park neighborhood for the BUILD Health Challenge and Ascension Wisconsin – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

More than 1,500 community members gave input for the Milwaukee Blueprint for Peace, the city's violence prevention plan.(Photo: Provided photo)

Nearly $600,000 for the BUILD Health Challengewill come to the Sherman Park neighborhood, Ald. Khalif Rainey announced.

Part of the money for the project, called BUILD Sherman Park, will be used to implement recommendations from Milwaukee's Blueprint for Peace, a community-based violence prevention initiative created in 2017.

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The funds will come, in part, from an award of $250,000 won by the City of Milwaukee Health Department's Office of Violence Prevention, Ascension SE Wisconsin Hospital at the St. Joseph campus, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County and the Sherman Park Community Association. Ascension Wisconsin has pledged to provide $336,000 in matching support of the grant, bringing the total funds to $586,000.

Ascension Wisconsin officials said the health system's participation is proof of how it is committed to Milwaukee's underrepresented communities.

The BUILD Health Challenge, is a national program meant to improve community health through community and health system partnerships, according to the website. The award requires hospitals to at least match the BUILD grant and will include other tools, such as coaching, support services and specialized training. The money for BUILD Sherman Park will be distributed over the next two years.

Rainey described the investment in Sherman Park as "transformative" for its residents.

Milwaukee joins over a dozenother cities who won the national challenge for the 2019 year, including Oakland, California; Houston, Texas and Washington, D.C.

There will be a kick-off event for the BUILD Sherman Park project Tuesday, Dec. 17 at 5:30 p.m. at the Sherman Phoenix, 3536 W. Fond Du Lac Ave.

Contact Talis Shelbourne at (414) 223-5261 or tshelbourn@jrn.com. Follow her on Twitter at @talisseerand Facebook at @talisseer.

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