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What is the PHACT Campaign?

• APHAs Annual Summer Grassroots Advocacy Campaign
• Engaging state and regional affiliates, APHA
  members and other supporters in advocacy
• Effort to connect affiliates with local APHA
  members
• Website http//www.apha.org/advocacy/tips/PHACTC
  ampaign.htm

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What are we advocating?

• This years focus is educating legislators about
  the need to include strong public health and
  prevention provisions in health reform
  legislation
• Promoting the APHA 2009 Agenda for Health Reform,
  available at http//www.apha.org/NR/rdonlyres/681A
  D0D2-7DD0-48DD-8D59-E425E271156D/0/HlthReform09C6.
  pdf

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Advocacy Strategies

• Participating in public, or town hall, meetings
• Scheduling in-person meetings with legislators or
  their staff in their district offices
• Calling legislators
• Writing legislators
• Media advocacysubmitting an op-ed to a newspaper
  or other media outlet

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APHA Health Reform Advocacy Toolkit

• Tips for speaking at a public meeting
• Questions to ask
• Tips for arranging an in-person meeting
• Sample request for an appointment
• Tips for conducting a meeting

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APHA Health Reform Advocacy Toolkit

• Sample phone script
• Tips for writing a letter
• Sample letter
• Tips for placing an op-ed
• Sample op-ed

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How to start?

• Call the offices of your of your Senators and
  Representative
• Ask about upcoming public meetings on health
  reform
• Schedule an in-person meeting with your
  legislator or his/her staff
• Call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at
  202-224-3121 or your legislators district office

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Then what?

• Email affiliate members and local APHA members
  about participating in the public meeting or
  in-person meeting
• Encourage members to call or write their
  legislators
• Encourage action on APHAs Action Alerts,
  available at http//action.apha.org/site/PageNavig
  ator/Advocacy
• Submit an op-ed and encourage members to do so as
  well

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Get Prepared

• Prepare a fact sheet summarizing your position
  using the instructions and template available at
  http//www.apha.org/advocacy/tips/PHACTCampaign.h
  tm
• Determine what you are going to say and who is
  going to make what points
• Practice your presentation

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Follow-Up

• Please let APHA know about your advocacy
  activities
• Your feedback is essential for strengthening the
  PHACT Campaign and gagging grassroots efforts in
  support of the APHA 2009 Agenda for Health Reform
  
• Take the survey at http//action.apha.org/site/Su
  rvey?ACTION_REQUIREDURI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTSSURV
  EY_ID1740

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Questions?Contact APHA Government Relations
at Nicky Bassford nicky.bassford_at_apha.org or
202-777-2513Don Hoppertdonald.hoppert_at_apha.org
or 202-777-2514