New Wisconsin Employer Survey on Employees & Caregiving

The Wisconsin Women’s Council (appointed by the Governor and the State Legislature) in partnership with the Wisconsin Family and Caregiver Support Alliance is looking for employers of all sizes to participate in a first annual survey on caregiving.  We seek to better understand the challenges employers experience as they address the needs of employees with caregiving responsibilities.  The intent of this survey is to improve information and other resources available to Wisconsin employers as they supportcaregivers on the job.

Survey Link:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WICaregiving 

The survey will take less than 10 minutes to complete.  Deadline to participate: May 31

For purposes of this survey, caregiving is defined as support provided to a family member (beyond typical care for a minor child) who may be an older adult or person with a disability. Individual survey responses will remain confidential.  Survey results will be shared with participating employers.

About Us

• Wisconsin Women’s Council: http://womenscouncil.wi.gov/
• Wisconsin Family and Caregiver Support Alliance: http://wisconsincaregiver.org/alliance

If you have questions about the survey contact Christine Lidbury, Executive Director, Wisconsin Women’s Council Christine.Lidbury@wisconsin.gov  or Lisa Pugh, Co-chair, Wisconsin Family and Caregiver Support Alliance: Pugh@thearc.org.

Thank you for your participation.

The Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) Standards Committee on Air Travel is looking for input and concerns from the disability, veterans and caregiver communities regarding the problems with air travel for passengers with disabilities in order to set revised and updated standards for wheelchair handling, labeling, storage, airline and airline contractor training.

If you use a wheelchair or scooter, or are a caregiver/family member of someone who uses a wheelchair or scooter, we would appreciate you taking a few minutes to answer the following survey regarding your experiences with air travel. We would appreciate if you could complete the survey by Monday, February 12.

Commercial Flight Experiences Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/792HG6D

If you have any questions, feel free to contact:

Kathy Hooyenga

Assistive Technology Unit
University of Illinois at Chicago
hooyenga@uic.edu

Please consider taking the survey yourself and share with your networks. We would like to collect a good sample to help direct future work.

The Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities (BPDD) was established to advocate on behalf of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, foster welcoming and inclusive communities, and improve the disability service system.  The Board is interested in learning more about the use of guardianship and supported decision making for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Wisconsin. This survey is intended to gather information from a variety of stakeholders about their knowledge of and experience(s) with Wisconsin's adult guardianship system and children transitioning into adulthood to assist BPDD in better understanding which issues should be prioritized for short-term and long-term planning and action. All responses and/or personal information provided will remain confidential. The survey should take 12-14 minutes to complete. Thanks you for your assistance with this important project.

PLEASE use the link below to take a quick survey about Guardianship alternatives in Wisconsin. Your input is important to us. Feel Free to share this survey with your networks as you deem appropriate.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YHWCJTQ

We will continue to collect survey responses through August 1, 2017.

The Waisman Center is conducting a WI Adult Long Term Care Survey, The survey is now available for individuals or family members to complete. People who receive adult long-term care support were mailed letters by WI DHS.

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Wisconsin’s direct care workforce crisis is leaving people with disabilities and the elderly without needed care. People across the state can’t find personal care workers, job coaches, respite workers or therapy aides.  To end the crisis, Survival Coalition, the Wisconsin Personal Services Association and the Workforce Alliance need your help.  We want to tell lawmakers how the workforce crisis is impacting real people.

Please use the link below to answer a simple survey about how the workforce crisis is impacting you: 

https://goo.gl/forms/yxURiiSbuSsGOBZK2

Once you take the survey, please share it with other people!

We would like to thank the Great Lakes ADA Center for providing us with the following information regarding a survey opportunity about transportation for people with disabilities.

We would like to thank the Great Lakes ADA Center for providing us with the following information regarding another survey opportunity.  This one is on Disability, and Consumer Attitudes and Preferences.

The Marketing Anthropology Project (MAP), a program of the National Business & Disability Council (NBDC) at The Viscardi Center, is conducting a self-selected sample survey on disability, and consumer attitudes and preferences. The survey seeks to better understand consumers whose buying decisions are mostly likely to be influenced by a business' practices toward individuals with disabilities. Please take a few minutes to complete our self-selective sampling survey.

To complete the survey, go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5F6RS8B.

Please feel free to share our self-selective sampling survey with your friends, colleagues and networks. To learn more about NBDC's Marketing Anthropology Project, please email me at bmacsata@viscardicenter.org. Thank you.

Brandon M. Macsata, General Consultant

National Business & Disability Council (NBDC) at The Viscardi Center

200 West 41st Street, 8th Floor, 800
New York, NY 10036

Phone: 516-465-3748

Email: bmacsata@viscardicenter.org

Visit Us on the Web: http://www.viscardicenter.org, or go directly to the NBDC Member Log-In at http://www.nbdc.com

We thank the Great Lakes ADA Center  for providing us with the following information about an opportunity  to participate in a survey about transportation for people with disabilities.

We would like to invite you to participate in a national survey titled, Transportation Access and Experiences, which is designed to improve understanding of accessibility of public transportation for people with disabilities. This survey is being conducted by the ADA Participation Action Research Consortium (ADA-PARC), a collaborative research project of ADA Regional Centers (PIs: Lex Frieden and Joy Hammel). This project focuses on community living, community participation & work/economic participation disparities of people with disabilities (For more information, visit the website:www.adaparc.org). We would like to improve our understanding on transportation access of people with disabilities and use this information to make improvements at regional and national levels.

We are very interested in receiving as many responses as possible from people with disabilities based on their personal experiences with public transportation. The results will serve as crucial evidence to support improvements to accessible transportation.

Please use the link below to access and complete the survey. The online survey can be completed in English or Spanish. This is the second round of data collection for this survey, so if you have already completed it, please do not complete the survey again.

If you would like to complete the survey by phone in English, please contact the research team at 312-996-9655. If you would like to complete the survey by phone in Spanish, please contact Ancel Montenelli at 312-413-1439. Please mention that you are calling about the ADA transportation survey.

If you have any questions or comments regarding this survey, please contact Jill Bezyak from the Rocky Mountain ADA Center at jill.bezyak@unco.edu.

https://unco.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_00wcGeTOzGL2lQ9

The Autism Society of Wisconsin is conducting a survey for individuals with autism, parents/caregivers, and professionals affected by autism. The survey is an opportunity for you and others to share your experiences and thoughts to influence our programs and legislative priorities. The survey will be repeated in the future so we can track how attitudes and experiences change over time. A report with survey results will be published later this year.

The survey takes approximately 10 - 20 minutes to complete. Those who enter their contact information at the end will be entered to win a $50 Amazon Gift Card. The survey will close on June 3rd.  

Please consider taking the survey and sharing with others! 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZJNBJTF