1. (1) Target population. Each contract for operation of a resource center shall specify the target population that the resource center will serve. The target population to be served by the resource center includes all members of the specified group who reside in the geographic area served by the resource center regardless of whether they need or are seeking family care or other long-term care services or programs.

2. (2) Name.

   1. (a) A resource center shall have a name that is appropriate to its target population and includes any of the following phrases:

      1. 1. “Aging and disability resource center.”
      2. 2. “Aging resource center.”
      3. 3. “Disability resource center.”
      4. 4. “Developmental disabilities resource center.”
   2. (b) The resource center’s name may be the primary name of the resource center or a subtitle to another name but shall be included in all advertising and materials, including any telephone book listings.
3. (3) Governing board. A resource center shall have a governing board that reflects the ethnic and economic diversity of the geographic area served by the resource center. At least one-fourth of the members of the governing board shall be older persons or persons with physical or developmental disabilities or their family members, guardians or other advocates, reflective of the resource center’s target population. No member of the governing board may have any direct financial interest in a care management organization.

4. (4) Independence from care management organization. To assure that persons receive long-term care counseling and eligibility determination services in an environment that is free from conflict of interest, a resource center shall meet state and federal requirements for organizational independence from any care management organization.

   Note: Before July 1, 2001, the Wisconsin legislature has authorized the department to contract only with a county, a family care district, the governing body of a tribe or band or the Great Lakes Inter-tribal Council, Inc., or with 2 or more of these entities under a joint application, to operate a Resource Center. After June 30, 2001, the department is authorized to contract with these same entities, or with a private nonprofit organization if the department determines that the organization has no significant connection to an entity that operates a care management organization and if any of the following applies: (1) A county board of supervisors declines in writing to apply for a contract to operate a Resource Center; or (2) A county agency or a family care district applies for a contract but fails to meet the standards for performance for Resource Centers specified in s. DHS 10.23. Certain functions of the Resource Center, such as eligibility determination, must be performed by public employees. Section 46.285, Stats., further requires that no entity may directly operate both a Resource Center and a CMO, except that a pilot Resource Center is required to be structurally separate from the provision of CMO services by January 1, 2001.

History

History: Cr. Register, October, 2000, No. 538, eff. 11-1-00; CR 22-026: am. (3), (4) Register May 2023 No. 809, eff. 6-1-23.