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Home > Resources > Tools for Advocates >  Advocacy & Media Tips Index



 

Being an effective advocate means knowing where and when to exert your influence. These tips explain how you can do "issue advocacy" in an election seasion and also offer critical information for your advocacy efforts in Congress.

Influencing Congress

Expanding Your Influence

Influencing the White House

Other Tips

Other Tools: This section of the Web site features materials we hope will be useful to health care advocates across the country.

  • Guides that explain the basics of public programs and provide tips for effective advocacy
  • Action Kits (includes tool kits from our annual grassroots conferences)
  • New on the Web offers you an archive of our periodic e-mail notices of reports and other resources that are available on the Web. 
  • Advocacy & Media Tip Sheets offer pointers for writing to your elected officials, holding meetings with them, and otherwise making your advocacy more effective.
  • ImPRESSive, Families USA's media guides, offers tips for working with the media to get your message out.
  • Archive of our Conference Call for State Advocates Series.
  • Other Tools: information from other organizations
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