Organizations to Assist Families

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.
• Brain Injury Resource Center – offers support, assistance and advocacy.
• Children with Special Health Care Needs Program (Regional Centers)
  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 older adults and people with physical and/or developmental disabilities age 17 years, 9 months and older.
• Children’s Community Options Program – formerly the 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 Mental Illness 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 Families for Hands and Voices – supporting families who have children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
• 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.
• Wisconsin Statewide Parent-Educator Initiative (WSPEI)
  School-age children with disabilities, their families, and educators.