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Causes: Health, Public Health
Mission: Abc for rural health is a nonprofit dedicated to delivering family health benefits counseling to patients throughout rural wisconsin. Its mission is to provide health care consumers with the information, advocacy tools, legal services, and expert support they need in order to obtain, maintain, and finance health care coverage and services.
Programs: Abc for rural health's direct health benefits counseling and advocacy services include services by health benefits counselors (hbcs) and legal staff who provide individual advocacy counseling and/or legal representation to clients on obtaining or maintaining health care coverage and services.
abc for rural health's training and education activities include presentation of workshops, conferences, webcasts, and other print and online publications about access to health care and coverage issues for client groups, health care providers, attorneys, and other professionals.
abc for rural health's policy and system research includes community coalition development, policy research, and systems advocacy that promotes collaborative identification and resolution of systemic problems affecting access to health care coverage and services for clients and client groups.