For Wisconsin’s children to be the most protected in the nation.
A future where every child is safeguarded by systems that are proactive, connected, and accountable, setting the national standard for safety, prevention, and response.
Make Wisconsin a national leader in child protection.
Project Worth exists to make Wisconsin a national leader in child protection by advancing strong legislation, strengthening accountability, and closing systemic gaps that fail to protect children and survivors, so our state leads the standard instead of playing catch-up.
Project Worth transforms personal and professional experience into meaningful policy change, ensuring that child protection systems are consistent, effective, and designed to act, not react.
Our Values
What guides Project Worth in every decision, conversation, and action.
Protection First
Children deserve systems that act early, consistently, and decisively to keep them safe.
Truth & Transparency
We bring light to what is hidden, responsibly and factually, so patterns cannot continue unnoticed. We work to build stronger systems together for children, not assign blame.
Survivor-Informed
Lived experience helps shape stronger systems and better protection.
Accountability
Systems and institutions must be transparent, responsive, and held accountable when they fail to protect children.
System Reform
We work to close gaps and build stronger, more effective child protection systems.
Nonpartisan
Child safety is not political. We work across all parties and perspectives to advance solutions that protect children, focusing on shared responsibility over ideology.
Higher Standards
People working or volunteering with children should meet a higher standard than simply having no criminal record. Child serving roles require integrity, sound judgment, accountability, and a demonstrated commitment to child safety.
Child Protection Leadership
Churches, schools, youth programs, and organizations serving children should model and be held to the highest standards of child protection, prevention, transparency, and accountability.
Shared Responsibility
Protecting children is not the responsibility of one person, one agency, or one institution. Families, communities, schools, churches, lawmakers, law enforcement, and child protection systems all have a role to play.
Research & Evidence
Strong reform should be supported by research, data, survivor experience, and real world system gaps. Project Worth values credible information that helps lawmakers and communities understand what needs to change.
Hope & Healing
What began in pain can become purpose. Project Worth believes healing and reform can grow together, helping survivors reclaim their voices while building safer systems for the next generation.
Courage to Speak
Silence protects abuse. Honest conversations, difficult truths, and brave voices help protect children.