Category: Surveys
WisTech, Wisconsin's Assistive Technology Act Program, is starting to plan for the 2025 assistive technology (AT) trainings and your input is needed. These trainings are intended to provide high-quality content that supports and develops the skills of AT professionals and other service providers. The WisTech 2025 Training Survey is now open!
Please complete this survey by Wednesday, November 20, 2024, at 5 p.m. If you have any questions, need this information in an accessible format, or need assistance completing this survey, please contact Laura Plummer by email at laura.plummer1@dhs.wisconsin.gov or phone at 608-514-2513. All trainings provide participants with Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and Certified Rehabilitation Counselor credits (CRCs) at no cost. Thank you in advance!
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) wants to hear what FEAs for the IRIS program are doing well, as well as how they can better serve participants.
We invite IRIS participants, families and friends, caregivers and providers, IRIS contract staff, advocates, and other partners to share their thoughts. This is a chance to share your ideas about services and improvements.
If you want to request a paper copy of this survey or want to take it in another language, email us at DHSIRIS@wisconsin.gov.
The survey will close on September 13.
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WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICE: We Want Your Input: IRIS Waiver Renewal
By SD Network, 2024-07-10
Share your thoughts for the next five years of the IRIS program
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) is renewing the IRIS waiver. A waiver is a special set of rules that allows us to have Medicaid programs like the IRIS program. For IRIS, it includes the 1915(c) waiver. With it, we can fund services and supports to help IRIS participants stay in their homes and communities.
We must renew the waiver every five years. This is a chance for us to make the IRIS program better between 2026 and 2031. We can improve policy, services, and other things that can make the programs better for participants.
How can I get involved?
Take our survey!
The survey closes August 2.
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We want IRIS participants, families and friends, caregivers and providers, IRIS contract staff, advocates, and other partners to share their thoughts.
We want to know how the IRIS program can better serve participants. This is a chance to share your ideas about services, supports, and other areas of care. It’s available in English, Hmong, and Spanish.
WISCONSIN FAMILY AND CAREGIVER SUPPORT ALLIANCE: Survey: WI Priorities for the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers
By SD Network, 2024-06-27
The Wisconsin Family and Caregiver Support Alliance wants to hear from YOU! Wisconsin Priorities for the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers:
- Survey for Family Caregivers
- Survey for Professionals
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Survey for Family Caregivers: This survey, sponsored by the Wisconsin Family & Caregiver Support Alliance, solicits input from FAMILY CAREGIVERS telling us what they need. In late 2022, the federal government released our nation’s first National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers, which Wisconsin is now implementing. Your responses about the five core goals of the National Strategy will be used to design future family caregiver supports and to advocate on behalf of the needs for caregivers. It is not necessary to read the entire National Strategy to take this survey. However, this list of Actions for States, Communities, and Others may be of interest. Anyone who is, has been, or may one day be caring for a family member or friend in any capacity is encouraged to complete this survey. |
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Survey for Professionals: This survey, sponsored by the Wisconsin Family & Caregiver Support Alliance, solicits input about the needs of family caregivers in our state. In late 2022, the federal government released our nation’s first National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers, which Wisconsin is now implementing. Your responses about the five core goals of the National Strategy will be used to design future family caregiver supports and to advocate on behalf of the needs for caregivers. It is not necessary to read the entire National Strategy to take this survey. However, this list of Actions for States, Communities, and Others may be of interest. |
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Want to learn more about the Wisconsin Family and Caregiver Support Alliance (WFACSA)? Visit our website wisconsincaregiver.org Have questions? You can contact us via email at wfacsa@gmail.com |
ILRU: Center on Knowledge Translation for Disability and Rehabilitation Research Disability Community Survey
By SD Network, 2024-04-15
The Center on Knowledge Translation for Disability and Rehabilitation Research invites you to complete a research survey. We want to hear from adults with disabilities about the ways you find and use information in your daily life. Your experiences will help researchers learn to share information in more accessible and meaningful ways.
The survey takes about 20 minutes to complete and is confidential. We will not identify people by name when we write or talk about this research study.
Click here to begin the survey in English
Click here to begin the survey in Spanish
Or copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser:
English: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7770841/Disability-Community-Survey-II
Spanish: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7701290/Encuesta-Discapacidad
Thank you for participating. Your voice matters! If you need accommodations to complete the survey, please email Jennifer Bumble at jbumble@air.org.
Dr. Jennifer Bumble
American Institutes for Research
ADMINISTRATION FOR COMMUNITY LIVING: 2023 National Survey on Health and Disability
By SD Network, 2023-11-18
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The University of Kansas Institute for Health and Disability Policy Studies — funded by ACL's National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) — is seeking adults with disabilities to complete the 2023 National Survey on Health and Disability (NSHD).
The NSHD gives voice to the concerns of people with disabilities and documents their experiences with a variety of issues, including access to health care, insurance coverage, housing, transportation, Long COVID, employment, education, and more. The survey is open to U.S. adults 18 and older with any disability and/or health condition. For more information, please call 855-556-6328 (Voice/TTY) or email healthsurvey@ku.edu. Participants may complete the survey by phone. |
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ADMINISTRATION FOR COMMUNITY LIVING: Aging and Disability Business Institute Launches Fifth CBO-Health Care Contracting Survey
By SD Network, 2023-10-27
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Survey closes Friday, December 1, 2023
The Aging and Disability Business Institute is seeking participation in the latest Community-Based Organization and Health Care Contracting Survey. They hope to hear about your health care contracting experiences.
If you have not received a unique link for your organization, use the link below to take the survey. The survey is open to all types of aging and disability community-based organizations (CBOs) and networks regardless of whether they are currently contracting with a health care entity. Your responses will be vitally important in understanding how CBOs and networks are contracting with health care entities to provide services to older adults and people with disabilities in a rapidly evolving market. The Business Institute will use the feedback from the survey to develop targeted resources that help raise the visibility of CBO-health care contracting and educate policymakers and health care professionals on the growing capacity of CBOs for this work. Organizations that complete the survey will be entered into a drawing for a complimentary registration to a conference of their choice, valued at up to $900. If you have questions about completing the survey or are experiencing technical issues, contact the Survey Helpline at (855) 359-3033 or RFI5survey@MiamiOH.edu. Learn more about the CBO-Health Care Contracting Survey on the Business Institute’s website. |
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APPLIED SELF-DIRECTION: Brief Survey for Participants, Representatives, and Workers in Self-Direction
By SD Network, 2023-08-03
Are you a person self-directing your services, a family member or friend assisting someone to self-direct, or a direct care worker in a self-direction program?
If so, we want to hear from you! Please complete our survey by Friday, August 11th. This survey will take you about 10 minutes to complete.
We are leading a new project sponsored by Elevance Health to improve worker recruitment and retention in self-direction programs. The survey responses will inform a white paper on the impact of the workforce crisis on self-direction featuring practical insights and advice from those with lived experience.
We are hoping our survey will reach a wide audience. Please share this survey with others who self-direct, family members, and direct care workers in your network.
Thank you for your help!
WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICE: Take Our Survey: Family Care and Family Care Partnership Waiver Renewal
By SD Network, 2023-06-27
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) is renewing the Family Care and Family Care Partnership waivers. A waiver is a special set of rules that allows us to have Medicaid programs like Family Care. For Family Care, it includes the 1915(b) and 1915(c) waivers. With them, we can fund more services and supports to help Family Care and Family Care Partnership members stay in their homes and communities.
We must renew the waivers every five years. This is a chance for us to make Family Care and Family Care Partnership better between 2025 and 2030. We can improve policy, services, and other things that can make the programs better for members.
How can I get involved?
Take our survey! We want Family Care and Family Care Partnership members, families, caregivers, providers, managed care organizations, advocates, and other partners to share their thoughts.
We want to know how Family Care and Family Care Partnership can better serve our members. This is a chance to share your ideas about services, supports, and other areas of care. It should only take 10 minutes. It’s available in English, Hmong, and Spanish. Please submit your responses by August 1.
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Family Caregiver Involvement | Hospital Discharge Survey:
GWAAR, in partnership with our grassroots caregivers, are conducting a survey to collect Wisconsin family caregiver experiences at the time of a loved one/care recipient’s hospital discharge. The intent is to learn about caregiver involvement at the time of discharge. The survey will take less than five minutes of your time to complete. Please complete it yourself if you are a family caregiver and please promote this survey on your social media, websites, within your caregiver support groups, and in newsletters using the QR code or link to the survey below.
For this survey, a “family caregiver” is defined as any relative, partner, friend, or neighbor who has a significant personal relationship with and provides a broad range of assistance for, an older person or an adult with a chronic or disabling condition. Responses to this survey will be combined with overall results to understand the hospital discharge process in urban cities, rural communities, and elsewhere throughout the state of Wisconsin. The data collected will be shared to promote advocacy efforts related to legislation, administrative rules, and healthcare systems and associations. Information collected will be kept anonymous.
Survey link: https://forms.microsoft.com/r/Jhw6C5KmBa