On April 7 leaders and staff of the Wisconsin Initiative to Promote Healthy Lifestyles (WIPHL) marked the end of a five-year initiative to fight unhealthy drinking and drug use among Wisconsinites by offering free screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment at clinics statewide. As part of a daylong retreat celebrating WHIPL's achievements, Elizabeth Lynn gave an overview of civic reflection with healthcare providers, and she and Jeannine Richards, a civic reflection facilitator and coordinator of communications for the Aldo Leopold Foundation, led a discussion of Naomi Shihab Nye's "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change". Participants in WIPHL discussed what they hope to see as the legacy of their work in years to come.

Said WIPHL treatment liaison Mia Croyle, "The work of this program will continue in many ways throughout our state. It was very useful for us to have time set aside at this final gathering to give voice to all the ways that we have been impacted by this work, and to share with each other the many ways that we hope to carry this important work with us as we move forward. Civic reflection gave us a way to get started with that conversation."

WIPHL is funded by a grant from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, administered by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, and coordinated by the Department of Family Medicine (University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health) and the Wisconsin Medical Society.