Acronym Glossary

Topics W

• W-2

  Wisconsin Works, the state's program to replace AFDC. Makes cash assistance dependent on taking a job or undertaking job training. Cash benefits limited to 60 months. Administered by DWD. Began September 1997.

• WAD

  Wisconsin Association of the Deaf; the state's premier civil rights advocacy based organization of, by, and for deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind individuals in the State of Wisconsin.

• WAFCA

  Wisconsin Association of Family and Children's Agencies

• WAHSA

  Wisconsin Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (non-profit).

• WALA

  Wisconsin Assisted Living Association

• WALDO

  Wisconsin Asbestos and Lead Database Online (WALDO) is the DHS online asbestos and lead certification database offered for public access.

• WALHDAB

  Wisconsin Association of Local Health Departments and Boards.

• WAMS

  Web Access Management System; system allowing authorized people to log into state internet applications using one way of identifying themselves for all. 

• WARF

  Wisconsin Association of Residential Facilities; represents CBRF providers.

• WCA

  Wisconsin Counties Association.

• WCDP

  Wisconsin Chronic Disease Program; offers assistance to Wisconsin residents with chronic renal disease, hemophilia, and adult cystic fibrosis.

• WCHQ

  Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality, Inc.

• WCHSA

  Wisconsin Counties Human Services Association.

• WCMH

  Wisconsin Council on Mental Health

• WCRS

  Wisconsin Cancer Reporting System

• WDC

  Wisconsin Disability Coalition.

• WEAVR

  Wisconsin Emergency Assistance Volunteer Registry, or WEAVR, is a secure, password-protected, web-based volunteer registration system for health care and behavioral health professionals.

• WEDC

  Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

• WEDSS

  Wisconsin Electronic Disease Surveillance System is a secure, web-based system designed to facilitate reporting, investigation, and surveillance of communicable diseases in Wisconsin. It is designed for public health staff, infection control practitioners, clinical laboratories, clinics, and other disease reporters.

• WEHA

  Wisconsin Environmental Health Association.

• WEM

  Wisconsin Emergency Management (WEM) is the lead state agency charged with coordinating the state's planning, preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery efforts for natural and man-caused disasters.

• WEMSA

  Wisconsin EMS Association

• WEPA

  Wisconsin Environmental Policy Act, s. 1.11, Wisconsin Statutes; requires environmental assessments and environmental impact statements (EIS) for proposed actions of state agencies that will affect the physical and natural environment.

• WFCAP

  Wisconsin Funeral and Cemetery Aids Program

• WHA

  Wisconsin Hospital Association.

• WHCA/WiCAL

  Wisconsin Health Care Association/Wisconsin Center for Assisted Living

• WHEDA

  Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority

• WHN

  Wisconsin Health News

• WI-1 DMAT

  Wisconsin-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team

• WI-HIPP

  The Wisconsin Health Improvement Planning Process (WI-HIPP) is identifying three to five priority health issues around which the Department of Health Services and partners across Wisconsin will create a state health assessment and a state health improvement plan.

• WIC

  Women, Infants and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program; seeks to improve the health of low-income, nutritionally at-risk pregnant and nursing women and infants and children under age five through improved nutrition made possible by nutrition education and vouchers for the purchase of certain foods.

• WILMS

  Wisconsin Log On Management System; allows authoritzed people to access many State of Wisconsin internet applications with one ID and password.

• WING

  Wisconsin National Guard

• WIR

  The Wisconsin Immunization Registry is a computerized Internet database application records and tracks immunization dates of Wisconsin's children and adults.

• WiSACWIS

  Wisconsin Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information Systems

• Wisconsin Fair Employment Act

  Sections 111.31 to 111.395, Stats. Prohibits discrimination in employment based on age, race, creed, color, handicap, marital status, sex, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record or conviction record.

• WISH

  Wisconsin Interactive Statistics on Health

• WISHIN

  Wisconsin Statewide Health Information Network

• WisTAF

  Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation

• WMHI

  Winnebago Mental Health Institute near Oshkosh.

• WNA

  Wisconsin Nurses Association

• Work Incentive Benefit Specialist

  A person that helps people who receive disability benefits with their questions about returning to work.

• WPHA

  Wisconsin Public Health Association.

• WPHCA

  Wisconsin Primary Health Care Association.

• WPSA

  Wisconsin Personal Services Association

• WRA

  Wisconsin Rehabilitation Association.

• WRC

  Wisconsin Resource Center near Oshkosh; administered by the DHS Division of Care and Treatment Services for the purpose of providing individualized care and treatment for mental illness, a developmental disability or substance abuse to inmates transferred from the Department of Correction's maximum and medium security institutions.

• WSC

  Wisconsin Stroke Committee

• WSLH

  Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene provide Clinical, Water and Other Environmental, and Industrial Hygiene analytical services, specialized public health procedures, reference testing, training, technical assistance and consultation for private and public health agencies.

• WSSA

  Wisconsin Social Services Association.

• WUCMAA

  Wisconsin United Coalition of Mutual Assistance Association, Inc.

• WWRC

  Wisconsin Women’s Resource Center

• WWWP

  Wisconsin Well Woman Program provides preventive health screening services to women with little or no health insurance coverage.