Tribal Affairs Office: Program Administration
The Tribal Affairs Office works to provide direct funding to tribes for health and family services programs through a consolidated contract from the Department of Health Services. All programs and services are included in one contract that runs for three years and is based on the federal fiscal year, which runs from October 1 through September 30.
Tribes report expenses to the Community Aids Reporting System (CARS). Each month, CARS records expenses that have been reported for each program by tribes and calculates payments.
Frequently Asked Questions about the State and Tribe Contract and the CARS Payment Processes
Key fiscal and program documents for the contracting process:
- Tribal CARS Manual
- Base Appendix B Administration of Income Maintenance Programs, October 1, 2020, through September 30, 2021 (PDF)
- Base Appendix C Administration of FoodShare Employment and Training (FSET) Program, October 1, 2020, through September 30, 2021 (PDF)
- Base Business Associate Agreement (BAA), October 1, 2020, through September 30, 2021 (PDF)
Additional information about CARS funding and expenditure reports
- Aging and Disability Resource Center Specialists (ADRS) (PDF)
- Birth to 3 (PDF)
- Child Immunization (PDF)
- Cooperative American Indian Health (PDF)
- Coordinated Services Team (CST) (PDF)
- Diabetes Prevention and Control (PDF)
- Disability Benefit Specialist (PDF)
- Dementia Care Specialist
- Great Lakes Inter-Tribal, Inc (PDF)
- Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin (PDF)
- Oneida Nation (PDF)
- St. Croix Chippewa Indians (PDF)
- Family Services Program (FSP) (PDF)
- Fit Families Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - Education (SNAP-ED) (PDF)
- Fraud Prevention Medicaid and FoodShare (PDF)
- HIV Prevention (PDF)
- Maternal and Child Health (MCH):
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- Medical Relief Block Grant (PDF)
- Money Follows the Person—Tribal Initiative (MFP-TI) (PDF)
- Preventive Health and Health Services (PDF)
- Substance Abuse Prevention Program (PDF)
- The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) (PDF)
- Tobacco Prevention and Control Program (TPCP) (PDF)
- Tribal AODA Treatment Program (PDF)
- Tribal Mental Health Block Grant (MHBG) (PDF)
- Women, Infants, and Children Program Supplemental Nutrition (WIC)
- Wisconsin Well Woman Program (WWWP) (PDF)
These links take you to DHS program webpages.
- Aging and Disability Resource Center Professionals Page
- Birth to 3
- Coordinated Service Teams Initiatives
- Diabetes: Part of the Wisconsin Chronic Disease Prevention Program
- Dementia
- Family Services Program
- ForwardHealth Portal
- Immunization
- Income Maintenance Eligibility Management
- Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Program
- Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant
- Public Health Emergency Preparedness
- Tribal Aging and Disability Resource Specialist
- WIC