Join Us - Become an Advocate
We need your help! If you support our goals, we encourage you to get
involved.
Why become a grassroots advocate?
Our advocates have sent more than 11,000 letters to members
of Congress to ask for support of health promotion provisions in
health care reform legislation. There are many benefits to
becoming a grassroots advocates. In addition to helping you
enhance your professional skills you will play an important role
in helping us integrate health promotion concepts into national
health policy, and improving the health of the nation.
What does a grassroots advocate do?
There are 435 Congressional
districts in the United States, and each one is served by an elected member of
the House of Representatives. Our goal is to recruit at least one health
promotion professional in each Congressional District who is interested in
encouraging their Representative and their Senators to support health promotion
issues.
Health Promotion Advocates will provide training and support to all
grassroots advocates. Grassroots advocates will ask their elected officials for support of Senator Lugar's
Health Promotion FIRST Act (S.1001) and Senator Harkin's Healthy Workforce Act
(part of S.803). All contacts with Congressional offices can be made by telephone and mail. These efforts will
take 30 minutes to 2 hours per year, depending upon how much effort you take to
get to know the Congressional office staff. If you are interested,
Join now!
Grassroots Advocate Responsibilities
- Take a few moments for a brief review of the
legislative process
and in particular, how a bill is passed.
- Identify contact information for your two
Senators and House
representative member. All you need is your zip code.
- Familiarize yourself with the health promotion pending legislation:
Health
Promotion FIRST (Funding Integrated Research Synthesis and
Training) (S.1001 & H.H.2354)
Healthy
Workplace Act (S.803 & H.R. 1897)
- Contact your health promotion colleagues and encourage them to become an
advocate. Background information and additional aides are available at the
Health Promotion Advocates Website.
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- When action is requested (by e-mail announcement through the Health
Promotion Advocates network), make contact with your Senators’ or House of
Representative’s legislative aid. Then log in your activity at the
Grassroots Survey link.
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Share success stories. Let us know if you had a unique contact
experience or did something creative to recruit new advocates.
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