Fresh Start Counseling Center, Inc. was incorporated in February 2003, initially providing mental health services to adults and children. Later, we were licensed as a child placing agency by the State of Wisconsin providing services to Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare and WrapAround Milwaukee children and families. Today, we sponsor three group homes in Milwaukee, WI, providing care and supervision to girls 13-18 years of age and a full-service therapeutic foster care agency.

The staff at Fresh Start has extensive training in sexual abuse, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Opposition Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, ADHD and ADD. They are available to provide individual counseling to children, adolescents and families in our program. Our therapist and social workers specialize in dealing with needs and problems associated with being a child in foster care. The counselors help both the child and therapeutic foster family deal with problems of separation/loss, trauma related to past experiences of abuse and/or neglect, adjustment to foster care, interpersonal skill needs and skills needed for independence.