2026 First Breath Provider Survey

Your feedback makes First Breath stronger and more effective!

First Breath is committed to providing relevant, responsive programming. Please take 15 minutes out of your day to share your HONEST feedback with us.

The survey is anonymous.

First Breath Spotlight: First Breath Program Graduate

After realizing it took one step at a time, one participant found alternative activities and hobbies to help her quit. "I chose to slow down because I wanted to better help my health and my child's health."

Ready to refer someone to First Breath?

Use the button to begin a referral in English or Spanish.

Want to read more First Breath participant stories?

Use the button to access the stories of more program graduates.

First Breath Provider Training

We look forward to working with you to support pregnant and parenting people and to improve maternal and child health in Wisconsin!

If you have not already completed since July 2022, we are asking all First Breath sites & referring staff to complete this 1-hour training. 

If you submit First Breath referrals by fax, our number is (855) 746-8502.

Thank you for your support and utilization of the First Breath program!

First Breath is now using data visualization to monitor program utilization and outcomes. Here are reports reflecting First Breath data thus far in 2026 (1/1/2026-8/31/2026). Check them out below!

Congratulations to the First Breath sites with the highest number of referrals for pregnant and postpartum people year-to-date:

• Aurora Health Center Oshkosh - 37
• Froedtert Hospital Clinics (OB/GYN & MFCC) - 23
• Ascension St. Joseph Women's Outpatient Center - 19
• Aurora Medical Group Marinette - 19
• Milwaukee Women's Care Center - 17
• UW Health Union Corners - 16
• UW Health 20 S. Park Clinic - 13
• Bellin Generations - Development Drive - 12
• UW Health Junction Road Medical Center - 12
• Health and Nutrition Service of Racine, Inc. - 11
• Menominee Tribal Clinic - 11
• Ascension Prospect Medical Commons OBGYN Clinic - 10

22nd Annual Mental Health and Substance Use Recovery Conference

This event is focused on increasing knowledge and skills to promote wellness, prevention, intervention, treatment, recovery, holistic care, and continuous quality improvement with the use of best practices for their community across the lifespan.

The conference is being held October 22-23 in-person and virtually.

The New Triangulum of Marijuana, Tobacco and Vaping: Implications and Effective Treatment Strategies for Co-Use

This webinar will help participants be able to explain the biological and behavioral factors behind co-use of marijuana, tobacco and vaping as well as be able to recognize and distinguish the complicating factors of treating a person with co-use. Learn ways to construct specific strategies to treat co-use of marijuana, tobacco and vaping, using both medical and psychological models of treatment.

Women's Health Webinar Series

Using virtual platforms, WWHF's GrapeVine Program is providing a Women's Health Webinar Series. Interested? Find out what sessions are coming up!

Thursday, November 19, 2026

2:00pm-3:00pm

Topic: Coping with Stress Through Journaling

Questions or Feedback?

We'd love to hear from you! Email firstbreath@wwhf.org

First Breath is Wisconsin's program to help people make positive changes to their tobacco, alcohol, and other substance use during pregnancy & beyond.

First Breath is operated by the Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation with funding from the Wisconsin Commercial Tobacco Prevention and Treatment Program, Division of Public Health, & Wisconsin Department of Health Services.This project is funded in part by the Wisconsin Partnership Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

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