Information, Assistance And Advocacy Resources

For Wisconsin Residents Who Have Disabilities

Organization List:

• ABC for Health
Health care benefits & services - statewide.

• The ARC Wisconsin Disability Association
  Direct services, guardianship, funding, health care, housing, transportation, and legal services - statewide.
• Birth-to-Three Early Intervention Program
  Birth to 3 is Wisconsin's early intervention program for infants and toddlers with developmental delays and disabilities and their families.
  
• Children with Special Health Care Needs
  Children with special health care needs ages birth to 21 - statewide.
  
• Community Advocates Inc.
  Low income and destitute persons in Milwaukee County.
• Disability Rights Wisconsin
  All ages with developmental disabilities, mental illness, physical, sensory, or neurological disabilities.
  
• Family Care Program
  The Program serves frail older adults and people with physical and/or developmental disabilities age 17 years, 9 months and older.
• Family Support Program
  The Program, coordinated on the county level, provides in-home support and services for families of children with severe disabilities.
  
• Great Lakes Intertribal Council
  Provides variety of services to members of the 11 Wisconsin Indian tribes.
  
• Independent Living Resources
  Provide disability I&R to people in 13 Southwest Wisconsin counties.
• IRIS (Include, Respect, I Self direct)
  IRIS is a Wisconsin program where you self-direct your publicly funded, community-based, long-term care supports and services.
  
• Legal Action of Wisconsin
  Free civil legal services to low-income persons and senior citizens in the Southern half of Wisconsin.
  
• Medicaid Recipient Hotline 800.362.3002
  Provides information & assistance on Medicaid - statewide.
  
• National Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Wisconsin (NAMI-WI)
  Families of adults with mental illness - statewide.
• Parent 2 Parent of Wisconsin
  Provides parent support to parents of children with special needs through a one-to-one connection with another parent who has a similar experience and who knows firsthand about the feelings and realities that come with having a child with special needs.
• Regional Centers for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
  
• United Way 211
  Information and referral to local resources, run on a county-by-county basis.
  
• Waisman Resource Center
  Children with special health care needs, ages Birth to 21, from all of Wisconsin with a special focus on the Southern Region.
  
• Wisconsin Coalition of Independent Living Centers
  Independent living issues - statewide.
  
• Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities
  Children & adults with developmental disabilities - statewide.
  
• Wisconsin FACETS (WI Family Assistance Center for Education, Training & Support)
  Provides training, information & referral, & individual assistance related to children with disabilities & the IDEA.
  
• Wisconsin Family Ties
  Children & adolescents with emotional, behavioral & mental disorders.
  
• Wisconsin First Step
  Birth - 21, disability-related information and referral.
  
• Wisconsin Judicare
  Free civil legal services to low-income persons and senior citizens in the Northern half of Wisconsin.
  
• Wisconsin State Independent Living Council
  Independent living issues, statewide.
  
• WSPEI-DPI (Wisconsin Statewide Parent-Educator Initiative)
  School-age children with disabilities, their families, and educators.