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Below is a listing of news items in chronological order.

BadgerCare Plus has released a newsletter about the program click here to download the document. to visit BadgerCare Plus click on the logo below

HEALTHWATCH WISCONSIN FUNDED!
2007 Will Mark a New Era in Public Health Education and Advocacy
The Wisconsin Partnership Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health has awarded funding to ABC for Health to develop HealthWatch Wisconsin as a statewide organization. The decision was announced at the Oversight and Advisory Committee meeting on December 13 at the UW school of Medicine and Public Health.

In summary, HealthWatch Wisconsin (HWW) is a proposed statewide organization with a goal of transforming the public health system by assuring a more sufficient, competent, and coordinated public health workforce that will assist people in accessing health care coverage and services. By 2010, the statewide HWW organization, through training, technical assistance, collaboration and coordination, will increase the capacity of at least 600 members of the public health work force to assure access to health care coverage and services for Wisconsin's under and un-insured populations. HWW will achieve this goal by 2010 by following five strategies:

Strategy 1 - Establish HealthWatch Wisconsin Council (HWWC) comprised of faculty partner and local, regional, and statewide representatives of public health work force from around the state to facilitate coordination and a flow of information between and among local public health workers.
Strategy 2 - Promote, develop, and sustain local HW coalitions through technical assistance, leadership training, and funding.
Strategy 3 - Training and education: HWW will transform the health care landscape by improving the public health work force's capacity by providing trainings and interactive web based educational materials, and pre and post-training competency testing.
Strategy 4 - Issue Identification and tracking: Mine aggregate client encounter data from ABC for Health to identify issues and barriers to accessing health care coverage and services and develop education and outreach tools to help public health work force, coordinated through local HW coalitions, increase capacity to serve the un/underinsured, thereby transforming the health care system

After nearly two years of strategic planning, ABC for Health has applied for a 3-year grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Fund for a Healthy Future to create HealthWatch Wisconsin (HWW) as a statewide organization.
HWW is a proposed statewide coalition of multiple new and existing local HealthWatch coalitions across Wisconsin with a goal to transform the public health system by assuring a more sufficient, competent, and coordinated public health workforce that will assist people to access health care coverage and services. To view the Executive Summary of the grant proposal please click here

The Department of Health and Family Services has released the final project proposal and summary of the Badger Care Plus program. Click here to download the proposal or click here for the summary. For more information please click here

Dane County Healthcare Access Pilot reported in the Wisconsin State Journal on 12/11/05. click here for page one, click here for page two

HealthWatch WI Strategic Planning Results Presented at the Covering Kids and Families 10/26/05 Statewide Meeting click here

HealthWatch WI Strategic Planning Calendar click here

South East regional invitation and announcement click here

Milwaukee press release click here