State Policy

NEW! 2024 WAFCA Member Resources for Candidate and Legislator Engagement

2025-27 Biennial Budget

• WAFCA Highlights of State Agency Budget Requests (9.23.24 - draft summary, subject to updates)
• State Agency Budget Requests 2025-27 (9.16.24)

2023-25 State Budget Highlights

• WAFCA Final 2023-25 Budget Summary (7/18/23)
• Governor's Budget Signing Press Release (7/5/23)
• Legislative Fiscal Bureau Summary of Partial Vetoes (7/7/23)
• Comparative Summary of Legislative Budget and Governor's budget by Agency (LFB, 7.28.23)
• Health Services
• Safety and Professional Services 
• Children and Families
• Public Instruction 
• Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board
• Corrections 

WAFCA Bills of Interest 2023-2024 Legislative Session 

January 2024 - WAFCA Action Alert Seeking Legislative Support for Bills to Improve the Continuum of Care for Youth with Complex Needs (PRTF and video recording)

[Archive 2021-22 Legislative Session (and other prior sessions)]

 WAFCA 2023-25 State Budget Advocacy Tools

• WAFCA State Budget One-Pager for Legislators 
• WAFCA Sample Emails to Legislators on Key Issues (Find Your Legislators)
• Medicaid Rates Fact Sheet
• Home Visiting Fact Sheet
• School-Based Mental Health Fact Sheet
• Workforce Support - Qualified Treatment Trainee Grants Fact Sheet

WAFCA Budget Priorities 2023-25 (updated 09.22)

• WAFCA Summary of State Agency Budget Requests 
• State Agency 2023-25 Biennial Budget Requests (Sept 2022)

POLICY RESOURCES/COALITION PARTNERS

• Raise the Age Coalition
• Coalition for Expanding School-Based Mental Health in Wisconsin  

WISCONSIN LEGISLATIVE RESOURCES

• Joint Finance Committee 
• Schedule of Legislative Committee Activities
• Wisconsin Legislature Notification Service
  The Wisconsin Legislative Notification System helps with following legislation through receiving daily or weekly emails for specific legislative activities. 
• Who are My Legislators?
  The Legislature's website has a tool to help you find your State Representative and State Senator. Just type your address in the box labeled "Find My Legislators."

TIPS ON LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY

• Get Engaged: Legislative Advocacy 101
• Hosting a Legislator at your Facility/Agency
• Advocacy Handbook (National Council for Behavioral Health, 2021) - great resource with lots of good tips for effective messaging 
• Tips on Advocacy in an Election Year (Council of Nonprofits; Nonprofit Vote)

OTHER STATE LEGISLATIVE RESOURCES

• The Wheeler Report
• Wispolitics
• Wisconsin Eye

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