Portage County ADRC outlines services, warns state budget cuts could shrink Strong Bodies program

Jul 15, 2025

At a Portage County Board meeting, Cindy Piotrowski, director of the county’s Aging and Disability Resource Center, reviewed the ADRC’s services, target populations and programs — highlighting reliance on federal and state funding and warning that the Strong Bodies statewide program has been eliminated from the state budget.

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Cindy Piotrowski, director of the Portage County Aging and Disability Resource Center, presented the ADRC’s 2024 annual report to the Portage County Board of Supervisors and described the center’s mix of services, funding and growing demand. “Our goal is actually to help keep people off of publicly funded long term care and using their own resources for as long as possible,” Piotrowski said.

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