When Jodie Mazza contacted the Health Justice Clinic, her family was facing an unexpected setback in her husband Carl’s recovery from oral cancer. After undergoing treatment that required the removal of part of the roof …
Resource Navigator Alumni Publish Dental Research in the Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning and Community-Based Research
Four graduates of CPP’s Community Resource Navigator Program (CRNP) recently published research they completed through the program in the Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning and Community-Based Research. Titled The Impact of the Resource Navigator Program: …
Fighting for Insurance Coverage Validated: Patient Persistence and CPP Advocacy Leads to Coverage for Medically Necessary Cochlear Implant Surgery
When Aleeza Barkas was diagnosed with a rare form of progressive hearing loss, she expected the medical challenges ahead. What she didn’t expect was that she would have to spend over a year fighting her insurance …
Advocating for Seniors Through Partnership
When older adults across Wisconsin began receiving unexpectedly high medical bills earlier this year, many were left frustrated, confused, and unsure where to turn. What started as individual calls for help soon revealed a much …
We are Hiring: Staff Advocate for New Rural Health Insurance Project
More information on the UW Job Site. The Center for Patient Partnerships (CPP) seeks a staff advocate for the new health insurance program to reach rural health care consumers. The advocate will provide primarily intensive …
Clarifying the Gray Zones: Supporting Self-Advocacy in Gender-Affirming Care
A procedure required for surgery shouldn’t be hard to get covered, but for many transgender patients seeking gender-affirming care, pre-operative electrolysis sits in a frustrating gray zone. Ash Eisen, a second-year Masters of Social Work …
Advocacy Faculty Member Pete Daly Receives Governor’s Volunteer of the Year Award
The Center for Patient Partnerships (CPP) is extremely proud to celebrate longtime volunteer Pete Daly, who was recently recognized as a 2026 Governor’s Service Award Volunteer of the Year by Governor Tony Evers and Serve …
Resource Navigator Program featured in GROW magazine
Read about the transformational experience our undergraduate students are having in the spring ’26 edition of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences magazine: Wayfinders in the Health Care World: Through an advocacy program at …
WE ARE HIRING! JOIN OUR MISSION-DRIVEN TEAM
The Center for Patient Partnerships (CPP) seeks a manager advocate for the new rural health insurance program. The mission of this new program is to support patients in using health insurance and coverage to gain timely, …
“It’s changed my entire trajectory in life”: Anika K.’s Experience as a Community Resource Navigator
“This program has helped me become more compassionate, more empathetic, more grateful for the position that I’m in,” Anika said. “It goes without saying that it’s changed my entire trajectory in life.”