MILWAUKEE — Four years after losing his brother to suicide, former Fiserv CEO Jeff Yabuki helped to put the future of mental health care for Wisconsin kids and teenagers into the spotlight Monday as Children's Wisconsin and The Yabuki Family Foundation announced a $20 million donation to expand integrated mental health care to all Children's facilities in Wisconsin.

"We have really been looking for how we can we find opportunity out of that tragedy," Jeff Yabuki told Spectrum News 1 on Monday. "[B]ecause he had issues himself as a child that went undiagnosed and then manifested later in life, we came across this program which is really focused on elevating mental and behavioral health issues and putting them on the same plane as physical health... and I believe had my brother had that opportunity, we would be having a different conversation here today."

“Too many kids are in crisis,” Peggy Troy, president and CEO, Children’s Wisconsin said in a statement Monday. “In Wisconsin, one in five children is living with a serious mental illness and hospitalization rates for mental health conditions are nearly four times the national average."

The donation— the single largest in Children's Wisconsin's history— will help to bring in "36 full-time, masters-prepared therapists who will work side-by-side with pediatricians in every Children’s primary and urgent care location" across the state, according to a press release, and "[W]hen fully staffed in 2023, the program has the potential to benefit more than a third of the pediatric population in southeastern Wisconsin."

"We're so pleased to bring these services to the 175,000 kids that use Children's Wisconsin," Yabuki added.

You can watch the entire interview above.

To see more from Children's Wisconsin about the donation and expanded program, click here.