The Wisconsin Psychiatric Association (WPA) was founded in 1957 as a district branch of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The organization is incorporated under the State of Wisconsin as a not-for-profit, professional medical specialty society. WPA represents more than 400 psychiatric physician members who are committed to continuously improving quality treatment for persons with mental illnesses.

Mission:

WPA is the premier professional association of psychiatrists in Wisconsin advancing mental healthcare through leadership in education, service, and advocacy.

Vision:

Accessible, high quality, and equitable mental healthcare for all the people of Wisconsin.

Goals:

• To improve the treatment, rehabilitation, and care of patients needing mental healthcare.
• To promote research, professional education, and collaboration within psychiatry and allied fields.
• To increase prevention of mental illness, reduce psychiatric disability, and focus on mental health in addition to treatment.
• To advance the standards of all public and private psychiatric services and facilities.
• To foster the cooperation and stakeholder investment of all who are concerned with the medical, psychological, social, and legal aspects of mental health and illness.
• To make psychiatric knowledge available to other practitioners of medicine, to scientists in other fields of knowledge, and to the public.
• To serve as champions for those who are stigmatized, marginalized, and discriminated against due to living with a mental illness.
• To collaborate with advocacy agencies, when appropriate, to protect patient rights and/or advance policy/legislation to better the lives of not only those with mental illness but also those that support/treat those with mental illness.
• To advance and represent the profession of psychiatry, and the serve the professional needs of psychiatrists in Wisconsin.
• To promote the best interests of patients and those actually or potentially making use of mental health services.

Bylaws:
The bylaws of the Wisconsin Psychiatric Association are available here.