Community TIES (Training, Intervention, and Evaluation Services) is a UW-Waisman Center behavioral support program that serves residents of Dane County with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
Community Outreach Wisconsin
WIN for the win: Wellness Inclusion Nursing helps improve quality of life of individuals with disabilities through nursing consulting
WIN is a Waisman Center Community Outreach Wisconsin (COW) program with nurses that serve as consultants for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their families, caregivers, residential and vocational team members, and health care providers.
Thirty years of Community TIES
On Friday, April 21, 2017, the Community TIES program at the Waisman Center will be celebrating 30 years of helping Dane County children, adolescents and adults with developmental disabilities live with their families and in …
Paul White leads the Waisman Center’s community outreach
Paul White has been a key player in helping people with developmental disabilities in Dane County live independently and be included in community life. When White, 63, a licensed professional counselor, began his career in the 1970s, institutionalization was the fate for many people with cognitive challenges. When the Illinois native moved to the Madison area in 1982, he was the treatment director for a large facility that housed more than 90 people.
Community outreach in action: Living Our Visions (LOV)-Dane
Living Our Visions (LOV)-Dane, based at the Waisman Center’s satellite community outreach office in Madison, is a grassroots organization of individuals with disabilities, their families and community members who strive to create fulfilling, community-centered lives …
Electronic Watchdog Keeps Developmentally Disabled Safe
If Monica Reese opens her front door or leaves her bedroom in the middle of the night, someone knows.