The Park City Center for Public Policy

Bruce Kamradt

Bruce Kamradt is the director of Wraparound Milwaukee, a $37 million system of care servicing annually over 1,000 children with serious emotional or mental health needs and their families. Operating from an individualized needs-based and family-driven philosophy and utilizing components of care such as mobile crisis teams, care coordination, extensive Provider Network and emphasis on setting and measuring outcomes, Wraparound Milwaukee is a national model for systems of care for children.  Kamradt has also extended this model to an early intervention program in child welfare called Family Intervention Support and Services and an alternative to juvenile correctional incarceration for youth with serious mental health issues called FOCUS. Wraparound Milwaukee is now involved in the Milwaukee community in the design of the behavioral health component of the health care system for foster care children.

Kamradt has been the director of Children’s Mental Health Services in Milwaukee County for the past 19 years. He previously worked as both a child welfare administrator and a juvenile court administrator. He has participated in White House Conferences on mental health during the Clinton Administration. He has also written numerous articles and monographs on Wraparound Milwaukee’s system of care, on innovative funding structures for such programs, on working with specific target groups of youth, particularly juvenile offenders and on other aspects of mental health programs for youth.