Today’s decision by the Joint Finance Committee to remove the controversial special needs voucher proposal from the state budget allows families of children with disabilities across Wisconsin to breathe a huge sigh of relief. (read more)
Survival Coalition Wisconsin
The Survival Coalition of Wisconsin Disability Organizations is a cross-disability coalition of more than 40 state and local organizations and groups. For more than 20 years, Survival has been focused on changing and improving policies and practices that support people with disabilities of all ages to be full participants in community life.
Updates
Survival Coalition Response to Medicaid Provisions Passed on Party-Line Vote in Joint Finance Committee
People with disabilities, their families, and advocates statewide have been communicating with
legislators for months about their concerns and recommendations for improvements in Medicaid related
programs in the state’s budget. Today, many of these requests were not addressed as the committee
passed a proposal on a party-line vote. (read more)
Survival Coalition Expresses Thanks For Today’s Motion to Improve Medical Assistance Programs
People with disabilities and their families and advocates across Wisconsin have spent the last
several months testifying at hearings, making phone calls, and sending messages to legislators,
sharing their hopes for improved health and long-term supports in the state budget. (Read more)
Survival Recommendations for JFC Budget
The Survival Coalition develops legislative budget and policy priorities for Wisconsin’s biennial budget.
- DVR Case Service Aids (Paper #735-R) (6-7-13)
- Survival recommendations on DPI Biennial Budget (6-7-13)
- Transportation Mass Transit Operating Assistance -LFB Paper #640 (6-7-13)
- Budget Recommendations-Child Care Rating & Reimbursement (6-5-13)
- Mental Health budget priorities (6-4-13)
- Estate Recovery-Paper 324 (6-4-13)
- Funding to address waiting lists for children with significant disabilities (6-4-13)
- Department of Public Instruction – Papers 536-538-539 (6-3-13)
- Medical Assistance Purchase Plan - LFB Budget Paper #326 (6-3-13)
- ACA and BadgerCare Eligibility Changes - LFB Budget Paper #329 (6-3-13)
- BadgerCare Plus Eligibility - LFB Budget Paper #321 (6-3-13)
- Comprehensive Community Services - LFB Budget Paper #322 (6-3-13)
- Family Care Expansion to Northeast Wisconin - LFB Budget Paper #327 (6-3-13)
More than 400 Disability Advocates to Visit the Capitol
Survival Coalition issued a media advisory about this week’s Disability Advocacy Day.
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