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Comment on our 2025 Protection and Advocacy plan by December 19!

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The deadline to send us your thoughts about our 2025 Protection and Advocacy goals and priorities is next week on December 19! This is your chance to tell us where you think we should focus our advocacy work on in Wisconsin.

DRW has created proposed Protection and Advocacy (P&A) goals and priorities for 2025. The goals and priorities contained in this plan identify areas upon which we expect to devote our federal Protection and Advocacy funding. Please note that this plan does not represent all advocacy we engage in on behalf of people with disabilities in Wisconsin. In addition to federal funding, DRW receives additional funding from other sources, such as:

  • our Family Care and IRIS Ombudsman Program (FCIOP) which serves all people under the age of 60 who have disputes with Family Care or IRIS.
  • our SSI-Managed Care External Advocacy project serves people enrolled in SSI-related Medicaid HMOs.
  • the Medicare Part D Disability Drug Benefit Helpline.

We appreciate your time and effort to help us achieve our mission. Thank you!

Read the draft Consolidated Protection and Advocacy Goals and Priorities for Fiscal Year 2025 (accessible PDF).

Submitting Comments

Submit comments by December 19, 2024. You may comment on this plan by email, mail, or any other means by which you communicate.

Mail

To comment by regular U.S. Mail, address comments to:

Disability Rights Wisconsin
ATTN: Melanie Cairns
1502 West Broadway, Suite 201
Madison, WI 53713

Email

To comment by email, contact Melanie Cairns at melanie.cairns@drwi.org with “P&A Goals and Priorities” in the subject line.

Other Methods

To comment by any other means, please call (or have someone call on your behalf) Disability Rights Wisconsin at 800-928-8778 to arrange any accommodation that may be necessary to allow you to comment.