Foundations Health & Wholeness is a non-profit organization that serves the community by focusing on foster care placement and mental health counseling. We are committed to compassionate and high-quality care for every client. Our entire team envisions a caring and connected community that embraces the health and wholeness of all people.

OUR ROOTS

In 1965, George Kress of Green Bay Packaging founded what is now Foundations Health & Wholeness to create greater access to mental health care in the Green Bay community. The vision was for a mental health clinic that would operate under three guiding principles:

• Provide the highest quality care
• Integrate the mind, body and spirit into treatment
• Make services available to everyone

A decade later, the organization added a treatment foster care program to its mission. The foster care program now has 6 regional offices that serve children and teens throughout Wisconsin in need of out-of-home care.

In January 2021, Foundations acquired the RAYS Youth Services program. RAYS Youth Services is a prevention-focused program that helps all youth in Sheboygan County. All youth are at risk of encountering negative impacts related to school behavior and readiness, violence or neglect in the home that may result in homelessness or runaway incidents, poor emotional and physical health, and poor social and emotional development. Honoring the reality that youth have certain aligned needs as a group, as well as very individual needs, the RAYS Youth Services team provides a variety of prevention-based services to make sure youth know that they have access to trusted adults in the community.

OUR BRANDING

To reflect its community impact and programs, in 2017, the organization’s name changed to Foundations Health & Wholeness. The three words in our name relate around approach to care:

• Foundations – we are here to walk with people has they strengthen the foundations of their mind and spirit
• Health – Mental health is a key component of overall health and well-being. The World Health Organization defines health as, “A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
• Wholeness – Wholeness is unity. It’s a personal state of forming a complete and harmonious life.

Our logo uses three connecting bands to join individuals, families, and community together as they heal mind and spirit. The honeycomb or puzzle design of our website was inspired by the stories of our community. Every cell of the honeycomb, or piece of the puzzle, has a story to tell. Together, these stories make up our community.

For more information, visit our website at www.wearefoundations.org.