AWARE: Members, Mission and Goals
AWARE (All-Wisconsin Alcohol Risk Education) is a UW Health-convened coalition to improve the health and safety of Wisconsin residents in the fight against alcohol abuse.
Mission and Goals
AWARE will focus on the following initiatives:
- Increase the beer tax to fund law enforcement and alcohol abuse prevention and treatment
- Reduce drunk driving
- Decrease underage drinking
- Prohibit health insurance companies from denying claims for accident victims who test positive for alcohol and other drugs
Coalition Members
AWARE would like to express its gratitude to the member organizations that work on behalf of our urgent mission:
- Affinity Health System
- Aurora Health Care
- Bay Area Community Council
- Beloit Memorial Hospital
- BRAVO is Building Responsible Alcohol Values and Options
- Children's Hospital and Health System
- Columbia County Connects
- Dane County
- Edgerton Coalition for a Health Community
- Focus on Community, Racine
- Froedtert and Community Health
- Gundersen Lutheran
- La Crosse County Board of Supervisors
- Madison Mayor's Office
- Marathon County Alcohol and Other Drugs Partnership Council
- Marathon County Health Department
- Marshfield Clinic
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- Medical Students for Legislative Action
- Meriter Health Services
- Milwaukee Deputy Sheriffs Association
- Ministry Health Care
- Mothers Against Drunk Driving
- National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors
- Reedsburg Area Medical Center
- Resource Center on Impaired Driving
- Rock County Partners in Prevention
- Rock County Youth2Youth
- Rogers Behavioral Health System
- Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative
- St. Joseph's Community Health Services, Hillsboro
- Southern Alliance Regional Council (SARC)
- Unity Health Insurance
- UW Health
- Vernon County Partnership Council
- Watertown Parent Advisory on Underage Drinking
- Wisconsin Alcohol and Drug Treatment Providers Association
- Wisconsin Association of Local Health Departments and Boards
- Wisconsin Association on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse
- Wisconsin Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors
- Wisconsin Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians
- Wisconsin County Police Association
- Wisconsin District Attorneys Association
- Wisconsin Hospital Association
- Wisconsin Medical Society
- Wisconsin Nurses Association
- Wisconsin Prevention Network
- Wisconsin Public Health Association
- Wisconsin Public Health Council
- Wisconsin Sheriffs and Deputy
- Sheriffs Association
- Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
- WPS Health Insurance
