Wisconsin

Family Care is a long-term care program being piloted in nine Wisconsin counties. As a comprehensive and flexible long-term care service system, Family Care strives to foster people's independence and quality of life, while recognizing the need for interdependence and support.

This website provides a comprehensive listing of Disability Programs and Information for Wisconsin. Listings include Addiction Services, Blind & Visually Impaired Services, Community Mental Health Services, Deaf & Hard of Hearing Services, Developmental Disabilities Centers, Developmental Disabilities Council), Developmental Disabilities Services, Disability Advocates: Wisconsin Network (DAWN), Physical Disabilities Services

From this website one can access a variety of information on programs and services in Wisconsin for older people and caregivers.

This website provides information for the consumer interested in applying for Medicaid coverage.

This website provides information and links to the programs, services, partners, and providers of Wisconsin including: Prescription Drug Savings, Medicaid, Vital Records, BadgerCare, Food Stamps, SeniorCare, Influenza, Autism, SARS, Public Health Restructuring, and Child Welfare Program Review.

The official state website offers information and links to government, business, travel, education, environment, healthcare and employment. This website provides information on services pertaining to aging and disability issues.

Beginning in 2001 and continuing in 2002 and 2003, technical assistance for the Real Choice Systems Change grantees has been provided by the Exchange Collaborative team (combined efforts of ILRU and Rutgers University/CSHP). These documents provide contact information for the TA providers and two charts indicating which Exchange Team is responsible for providing TA to the grantees. In 2002 & 2002, TA was divided according to states. In 2003, TA was distributed according to theme.

The Aging and Disability Resource Center Grant Program, was developed to assist states in their efforts to create a single, coordinated system of information and access for all persons seeking long term support. This toolbox has been developed for ADRC grantees to: 1) List and succinctly explain the AoA-CMS requirements per each topic, and 2) provide materials that will support the design, development and operation of resource centers.

This report is a product of collaboration between HHS and DOL in response to the requests from the U.S. Congress. Staff at these Departments worked collaboratively to share information and data pertaining to direct care workers in long-term care settings and to develop a joint set of recommendations for the future. This report includes information on informal caregivers, direct care workers, and paraprofessional direct services workers.

In this report, the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) traces the budget issues that states confronted in 2002 and examines how they addressed those issues. The report also describes long-term care legislation enacted in 2002 and long-term care planning work that is under way in many states.