JFC approves funding for MCW psychiatry program, child abuse prevention

The Joint Finance Committee today voted to invest $7 million in state money to help produce more psychiatrists and another $2 million to expand programs that help teach effective parenting techniques and seek to prevent child abuse. The $7 million for the Medical College of Wisconsin matches the amount of funding Dem Gov. Tony Evers wanted to dedicate for the school’s psychiatry and behavioral hea...