In many localities, the county welfare office and Job Service are co-located in the Job Center. This assures that the most effective possible agencies will be managing the program. Contracts will be defined by county boundaries. For those with significant physical or mental limitations, such work could be in a sheltered workshop or specialized work site. Under W-2, child care will be made available to all eligible families with low income and with low assets who need child care to be able to work.
Families can select from a wide range of providers through the use of child care vouchers.
Wisconsin leads national welfare reform because they replace welfare with work. Both the providers and receivers of assistance in Wisconsin have changed the way they think about welfare. Work means self-sufficiency and dignity, commodities not available unless welfare means work. Wisconsin proves it.