HIR Wellness Institute

HIR Wellness Institute provides free, accessible mental health care, wellness services, and victim advocacy in Milwaukee. Its services include walk-up counseling, healing sessions, crisis care, triage support, mental health and suicide risk screenings, and brief wellness activities through offices, neighborhood spaces, and mobile clinics. Mental health groups help survivors build coping and communication skills while developing social connections. The institute also offers expressive art and play therapies, occupational therapy, and counseling for children and families. Services are grounded in trauma-informed care, evidence-based practices, neuroscience, attachment theory, and Indigenous healing traditions. Its advocacy response team supports sex trafficking victims, missing relatives, and people affected by domestic violence and sexual assault. HIR Wellness Institute specializes in culturally responsive care for Indigenous and underserved survivors of violence and trauma.