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Wisconsin Substance Use Summitt
August 5-6 Online
The Wisconsin Substance Use Summit is an event focused on actionable strategies to build healthy communities through substance use prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery services and supports. Organized by the Division of Care and Treatment and Services and UW-Milwaukee’s Center for Innovative Transition, Education & Employment. This event will (1) create and provide spaces and opportunities for people to connect with best practice approaches and methodology, resource access points, and experts in the substance use field, (2) provide educational opportunities, practical demonstrations, and real-life examples of collaborative efforts to address substance use issues, and (3) create a community of relationships for attendees to learn from and support each other, brainstorm solutions to barriers, and provide peer support.
Online Registration open until August 5.
FEATURED REPORT
Veterans’ Participation in Public Programs
Comprehensive Cross-Survey Comparisons with Nonveterans and the Role of VA Disability Compensation
The authors’ major conclusion is that income from VA Disability Compensation (VADC) interacts in complicated ways with the rest of the social safety net. Because VADC income counts toward eligibility in some programs but not others, changes to VADC policy or to these other programs’ rules can have a variety of downstream effects on veterans. One consequence is that veterans receiving VADC benefits receive means-tested benefits at lower rates.
The report includes findings and recommendations. The report is free to download.