The advisory committee has been created to provide diverse stakeholders input to Wisconsin's "Coming Home: Affordable Assisted Living" initiative. This initiative is a joint effort on the part of the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority and the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, in conjunction with a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to promote affordable assisted living. The advisory committee will run for a three-year period, from 2001 to 2004, the term of the grant. Specific roles and functions of the advisory committee include:

• Provide input to Wisconsin's affordable assisted living initiative
• Identify barriers to the development and provision of affordable assisted living
• Generate ways to reduce the identified barriers
• Identify what we want to learn from for the affordable assisted living demonstrations and help develop guidelines for them
• Integrate diverse perspectives to fully address the issue
• Contribute to the development of best practice models and implementation tools
• Serve as a sounding board for ideas generated through the grant initiative
• Communicate back to the constituencies represented
• Support progress toward solving the problem of lack of affordable assisted living