46.001 Purposes of chapter. The purposes of this chapter are to conserve human resources in Wisconsin; to prevent dependency, mental illness, developmental disability, mental infirmity, and other forms of social maladjustment by a continuous attack on causes; to provide effective aid and services to all persons in need of that aid and those services and to assist those persons to achieve or regain self-dependence at the earliest possible date; to avoid duplication and waste of effort and money on the part of public and private agencies; and to coordinate and integrate a social welfare program.
History: 1977 c. 354; 1983 a. 447; 1989 a. 31; 1995 a. 27; 1997 a. 292; 2007 a. 20.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
46.014 - Secretary, powers and duties.
46.016 - Cooperation with federal government.
46.018 - Disbursement of funds and facsimile signatures.
46.02 - Agency powers and duties.
46.028 - Electronic benefit transfer.
46.03 - Department, powers and duties.
46.031 - County social service and mental hygiene budget and contract.
46.034 - Authority to establish services integration and coordination pilot programs.
46.035 - Department, additional powers to provide structures, facilities and permanent improvements.
46.036 - Purchase of care and services.
46.041 - Children's consultation service; establishment; purposes.
46.042 - Treatment program for emotionally disturbed children.
46.043 - Additional services of mental health institutes.
46.044 - State psychiatric institute.
46.047 - State-operated residential facilities and support services.
46.048 - Central Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled.
46.055 - Secure mental health facility for sexually violent persons.
46.056 - Wisconsin Resource Center.
46.057 - Mendota juvenile treatment center.
46.058 - Bonds of employees; police powers; investigation of complaints.
46.06 - Lands; condemnation, easements, leases, sales, purchases.
46.064 - Client wages, allowances and release payments.
46.066 - Freedom of worship; religious ministration.
46.07 - Property of patients or residents.
46.09 - Purchases, bills, audits, payments.
46.14 - Reports of state institutions.
46.15 - Institutions subject to chapter 150.
46.16 - General supervision and inspection by department.
46.17 - County buildings; establishment, approval, inspection.
46.175 - County institutions: minimum standards.
46.18 - Trustees of county institutions.
46.19 - Officers and employees of county institutions.
46.20 - Joint county institutions.
46.205 - County home in adjoining county.
46.206 - Welfare services; supervisory functions of state department.
46.208 - Relief block grants; functions of state department.
46.21 - Institutions and department of human services in populous counties.
46.215 - County department of social services in populous counties.
46.22 - County social services.
46.225 - Indigency determinations.
46.23 - County department of human services.
46.234 - Recovery residences; registration.
46.245 - Information for certain pregnant women.
46.248 - Reach Out and Read Wisconsin grants.
46.269 - Determining financial eligibility for long-term care programs.
46.271 - Long-term support pilot projects.
46.272 - Children's community options program.
46.275 - Community integration program for residents of state centers.
46.277 - Community integration program for persons relocated or meeting reimbursable levels of care.
46.2785 - Community Opportunities and Recovery Program.
46.279 - Restrictions on placements and admissions to intermediate and nursing facilities.
46.28 - Revenue bonding for residential facilities.
46.2804 - Client management of managed care long-term care benefit.
46.2805 - Definitions; long-term care.
46.281 - Powers and duties of the department, secretary, and counties; long-term care.
46.284 - Care management organizations.
46.285 - Operation of resource center and care management organization.
46.2895 - Long-term care district.
46.2896 - Counting promissory notes as assets.
46.2897 - Self-directed services option.
46.2898 - Employment of individuals with disabilities; long-term care programs.
46.2899 - Services for the developmentally disabled who receive post-secondary education.
46.29 - Council on physical disabilities.
46.293 - Specialized programs for the blind and visually impaired.
46.295 - Interpreters for the hearing-impaired.
46.297 - Telecommunication aid for the hearing impaired.
46.298 - Vehicle sticker for the hearing impaired.
46.33 - Employee counseling referral programs.
46.34 - Emission standards for hazardous air contaminants.
46.37 - Certain water and sewerage service in Winnebago County.
46.40 - Community aids funding.
46.45 - Carry-over of community aids funds.
46.47 - Grants for nonnarcotic drug treatment in county jails.
46.48 - Grants for community programs.
46.482 - Coordination of care in substance use overdose.
46.485 - Mental health services for severely emotionally disturbed children.
46.49 - Allocation of federal funds for community aids.
46.495 - Distribution of community aids funds to counties.
46.50 - State mental health authority.
46.52 - Systems change grants.
46.53 - Mental health treatment provider training.
46.535 - Crisis intervention training grants.
46.536 - Crisis program enhancement grants.
46.54 - Consumer and family self-help and peer-support programs.
46.545 - Individual placement and support.
46.55 - Grants for services to persons in treatment.
46.56 - Initiatives to provide coordinated services for children and families.
46.57 - Grants for services to persons with epilepsy.
46.65 - Treatment alternative program.
46.70 - Delivery of services to American Indians.
46.71 - American Indian drug abuse prevention, treatment and education.
46.75 - Food distribution grants.
46.77 - Food distribution administration.
46.81 - Benefit specialist program.
46.85 - Programs for older individuals.
46.856 - Alzheimer's disease; training and information grants.
46.87 - Alzheimer's family and caregiver support program.
46.90 - Elder abuse reporting system.
46.94 - Referral system for community-based services.
46.96 - Independent living center grants; independent living services.
46.972 - Primary health for homeless individuals.
46.973 - Drug dependence program.
46.975 - Grant and funding program; services related to alcohol and other drug abuse.
46.986 - Respite care program.
46.99 - Medical assistance waiver for Birth to 3 participants.
46.995 - Disabled children's long-term support program; local funding.