Because Health Care is a Right, Not a Privilege

ADVOCACY AND POLICY
Content Manager, Pat Post, MPA
Advocacy Goals



A Word About Funding

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Advocacy Events

• HCH Policy Symposium
Taking Action


HCH Mobilizer
Write to Congress: House   Senate
Look up pending federal legislation

2007 POLICY PRIORITIES
 • Universal Health Coverage
• National Housing Trust Fund
• Health Center reauthorization & funding
• SAMHSA reauthorization & funding

Advocacy Tools

PUBLICATIONS
• Council Publications
• Other Resources

FEDERAL ADVOCACY
• Consolidated Health Centers Act
• Disability Policy
• Federal definition of Homelessness
• Federal homeless programs
• Glossary of Policy & Advocacy terms
• McKinney Reauthorization
• National Housing Trust Fund Campaign
• Physicians for a National Health Plan
• Single Payer Universal Health Insurance
• Supportive Housing
• Universal Living Wage Campaign

STATE/LOCAL ADVOCACY
• Homeless Memorial Day
• Medicaid Advocacy Tools
• National Health Center Week
• Oral Health Services Legislation
• SSI/SSDI Outreach, Advocacy & Recovery (SOAR) initiative
• State & Local Advocacy Manual
• TennCare Shelter Enrollment Project
Policy Statements

by topic:

Addiction & Mental Health
Child & Youth Health
Disability Benefits
Health Care as a Human Right
Homelessness & Health
Housing
Fair Wages
Federal Tort Claims Act
Incarceration
Institutional Discharge
Mainstreaming
Medicaid/SCHIP
Military Spending
Respite
Universal Health Care




Jeff Singer, MSW,
Chair National Council
Policy Committee