Information & Referral Resources for Children Disabilities
or Special Health Care Needs and their Families
Organization:
Waisman Resource Center
Room S101F
1500 Highland
Ave.
Madison, WI
53705
800-532-3321
www.waisman.wisc.edu/cshcn/
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Mission:
To provide
families & the providers who work with them with quality, timely & practical
information & assistance. The focus is on children Birth-21, who have special
health care needs.
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Population Served:
Children
with special health care needs, ages Birth to 21, from all of Wisconsin with a
special focus on the Southern Region, as defined by the Division of Public
Health.
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Service Area:
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Wisconsin & the
Southern Region: 13 counties, including Adams, Columbia, Crawford, Dane, Dodge,
Grant, Green, Iowa, Juneau, LaFayette, Richland, Rock & Sauk)
Services Provided:
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Information
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Assistance
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Referral
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Service
coordination
Parent to
Parent supports (includes info. about local parent support groups, Internet
communication (websites with chat rooms), & limited parent-to-parent matching)
Additional Comments:
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In this time of
limited resources, many funders want to just fund direct service. The problem
is that infrastructure is also critical. Without it, families can’t learn
about the resources that are available to them. It takes money to publicize,
too.
Totally
accessible to people using wheelchairs.
Use of language
line .
TTY available.
© Wisconsin Family Voices 2005
Last updated 3/19/2005
Please let us know if you find any broken links or have any additions or corrections rowley@waisman.wisc.edu
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