46.35 Council on American Indian health.
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 Community aids performance standards.
46.48 Grants for community programs.
46.485 Mental health services for severely emotionally disturbed children.
46.49 Allocation of federal funds for community aids and child welfare.
46.495 Distribution of community aids funds to counties.
46.50 State mental health authority.
46.51 Child abuse and neglect services.
46.52 Systems change grants.
46.53 Mental health treatment provider training.
46.54 Consumer and family self-help and peer-support programs.
46.55 Grants for services to persons in treatment.
46.56 Integrated service programs for children with severe disabilities.
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.
46.715 Neighborhood drug use and violence prevention.
46.717 Alcohol and other drug abuse treatment; hearing impaired.
46.75 Food distribution grants.
46.765 Community-based hunger prevention program 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.
46.86 Treatment programs.
46.87 Alzheimer's family and caregiver support program.
46.90 Elder abuse reporting system.
46.93 Adolescent pregnancy prevention programs and pregnancy services.
46.935 Comprehensive community-based adolescent demonstration projects.
46.95 Domestic abuse grants.
46.96 Independent living center grants.
46.972 Services for homeless individuals.
46.973 Drug dependence program.
46.974 Joint alcohol and drug abuse prevention plan.
46.975 Grant and funding program; services related to alcohol and other drug abuse.
46.976 Group home revolving loan fund.
46.977 Guardianship grants.
46.985 Family support program.
46.995 Adolescent self-sufficiency and pregnancy prevention.
46.996 Adolescent services.
46.997 Adolescent choices project grants.
46.001
46.001
Purposes of chapter. The purposes of this chapter are to conserve human resources in Wisconsin; to provide a just and humane program of services to children in need of protection or services and nonmarital children; 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 thereof 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.
46.011(1)
(1) "Department" means the department of health and family services.
46.011(2)
(2) "Prisoner" means any person who is either arrested, incarcerated, imprisoned or otherwise detained in excess of 12 hours by any law enforcement agency of this state, except when detention is pursuant to
s. 51.15,
51.20,
51.45 (11) (b) or
55.06 (11) (a) or
ch. 980. "Prisoner" does not include any person who is serving a sentence of detention under
s. 973.03 (4) unless the person is in the county jail under
s. 973.03 (4) (c).
46.011(3)
(3) "Secretary" means the secretary of health and family services.
46.011(4)
(4) "State health planning and development agency" means the department, as designated under
s. 250.04 (12).
46.014
46.014
Secretary, powers and duties. 46.014(1)
(1)
Inventories. On or before July 1 in each year, the secretary shall cause full and complete inventories and appraisals to be made of all the property of each institution administered by the department, which shall be recorded and so classified as to show separately the amount, kind and value of such property.
46.014(2)
(2) Visitation. The secretary shall cause each of said institutions to be visited and inspected at least once a month to ascertain whether the officers and employes therein are competent and faithful in the discharge of their duties, all inmates properly cared for and governed, all accounts, books and vouchers properly kept, and all the business affairs properly conducted.
46.014(3)
(3) Powers and duties. The secretary shall plan for and establish within the department a program of research designed to determine the effectiveness of the treatment, curative and rehabilitative programs of the various institutions and divisions of the department. The secretary may inquire into any matter affecting social welfare and hold hearings and subpoena witnesses and make recommendations to the appropriate agencies, public or private, thereon.
46.014(4)
(4) Reports. At least annually, the secretary shall submit a report to the chief clerk of each house of the legislature, for distribution to the appropriate standing committees under
s. 13.172 (3), concerning activities of community action agencies under
s. 46.30 and their effectiveness in promoting social and economic opportunities for poor persons.
46.016
46.016
Cooperation with federal government. The department may cooperate with the federal government in carrying out federal acts concerning public assistance, social security, child welfare and youth services, mental hygiene, services for the blind and in other matters of mutual concern pertaining to public welfare.
46.016 History
History: 1989 a. 31,
107;
1995 a. 27.
46.017
46.017
Legal actions. The department may sue and be sued.
46.018
46.018
Disbursement of funds and facsimile signatures. Withdrawal or disbursement of moneys deposited in a public depository, as defined in
s. 34.01 (5), to the credit of the department or any of its divisions or agencies shall be by check, share draft or other draft signed by the secretary or by one or more persons in the department designated by written authorization of the secretary. Such checks, share drafts and other drafts shall be signed personally or by use of a mechanical device adopted by the secretary or his or her designees for affixing a facsimile signature. Any public depository shall be fully warranted and protected in making payment on any check, share draft or other draft bearing such facsimile signature notwithstanding that the facsimile may have been placed thereon without the authority of the secretary or his or her designees.
46.018 History
History: 1983 a. 189 s.
329 (21);
1983 a. 368,
538.
46.02
46.02
Agency powers and duties. Any institution which is subject to
chs. 46,
48 to
51,
55 and
58 and to regulation under
ch. 150 shall, in cases of conflict between
chs. 46,
48 to
51,
55 and
58 and
ch. 150, be governed by
ch. 150. The department shall promulgate rules and establish procedures for resolving any such controversy.
46.023
46.023
Milwaukee child welfare partnership council and advisory committees. 46.023(1)
(1)
Milwaukee child welfare partnership council; duties. The Milwaukee child welfare partnership council shall do all of the following:
46.023(1)(a)
(a) Formulate suggested policies and plans for the improvement of the child welfare system in Milwaukee County and make recommendations with respect to those policies and plans to the department and the legislature.
46.023(1)(b)
(b) Formulate suggested measures for evaluating the effectiveness of the child welfare system in Milwaukee County, including outcome measures, and make recommendations with respect to those measures to the department and the legislature.
46.023(1)(c)
(c) Formulate suggested funding priorities for the child welfare system in Milwaukee County and make recommendations with respect to those funding priorities to the department and the legislature.
46.023(1)(d)
(d) Identify innovative public and private funding opportunities for the child welfare system in Milwaukee County and make recommendations with respect to those funding opportunities to the department and the legislature.
46.023(1)(e)
(e) Advise the department in planning, and providing technical assistance and capacity building to support, a neighborhood-based system for the delivery of child welfare services in Milwaukee County.
46.023(2)
(2) Milwaukee child welfare community advisory committees. The department shall establish community advisory committees for each of the 5 neighborhood-based child welfare service delivery sites planned for Milwaukee County under
1995 Wisconsin Act 303, section 9127 (1) (b). Each committee shall provide a forum for communication for those persons who are interested in the delivery of child welfare services in the neighborhood to be served by the service delivery site. Any committee established under this subsection shall continue in existence after the establishment of the service delivery site to make recommendations to the department with respect to the delivery of child welfare services in the neighborhood served by the delivery site.
46.023 History
History: 1995 a. 303.
46.03
46.03
Department, powers and duties. The department shall:
46.03(1)
(1) Institutions governed. Maintain and govern the Mendota and the Winnebago mental health institutes; and the centers for the developmentally disabled.
46.03(2)
(2) Supervision over property. Supervise, manage, preserve and care for the buildings, grounds and other property pertaining to said institutions, and promote the objects for which they are established.
46.03(2a)
(2a) Gifts. The department may accept gifts, grants or donations of money or of property from private sources to be administered by the department for the execution of its functions. All moneys so received shall be paid into the general fund and are appropriated therefrom as provided in
s. 20.435 (9) (i).
46.03(3)
(3) Trustee duty. Take and hold in trust,whenever it considers acceptance advantageous, all property transferred to the state to be applied to any specified purpose, use or benefit pertaining to any of the institutions under its control or the inmates thereof, and apply the same in accordance with the trust; and when ordered by the court, act as trustee of funds paid for the support of any child if appointed by the court or family court commissioner under
s. 767.475 (7).
46.03(4)(a)(a) Develop and maintain such programs of education and prevention as it deems proper.
46.03(4)(b)1.1. The department, in order to discharge more effectively its responsibilities under this chapter and
ch. 48 and other relevant provisions of the statutes, is authorized to study causes and methods of prevention and treatment of mental illness, mental deficiency, mental infirmity, and related social problems, including establishment of demonstration projects to apply and evaluate such methods in actual cases. The department is directed and authorized to utilize all powers provided by the statutes, including the authority under
sub. (2a), to accept grants of money or property from federal, state or private sources, and to enlist the cooperation of other appropriate agencies and state departments; it may enter into agreements with local government subdivisions, departments and agencies for the joint conduct of such projects; and it may purchase services when deemed appropriate.
