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Is your NSSLHA Chapter looking for a way to have a big impact on Capitol Hill without having to travel to Washington D.C?
The national office has created the perfect activity for your chapter to get their voices heard on Capitol Hill:
- Distribute issue briefs to your members.
- Identify your state representatives in the House and in the Senate.
- Have your members prepare a letter to their representatives.
- Get as many students, faculty, and clinicians from your program involved in this campaign.
- Designate one person to collect all letters.
- Follow the impact that you've made.
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1. Distribute issue briefs to your members, faculty, and clinicians to familiarize everyone with one or more of the following issues:
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2. Show your members how to Identify their representatives in the House and in the Senate.
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3. Have your members prepare a letter to their representatives.
Use the files below to create and print letters for each issue. Advise your members to use one letter for each representative in the House and one letter for each representative in the Senate. Have your members sign their name and print their home address to each letter:
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4. Get as many students, faculty, and clinicians from your program involved in this campaign.
This is a good time to educate members in your program about the importance of advocacy in the profession. Without advocacy you won't have a voice.
Also remind your chapter that their involvement in this activity counts toward the chapter recognition program. At the end of the year, your chapter could be eligible for awards and prizes.
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5. Designate one person to collect all letters.
Then FedEx your letters to the Deborah Darcy, Director of Grassroots Advocacy, for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association by March 16th. NSSLHA Presidents and Advisors should contact Deborah at 202-624-8198 or ddarcy@asha.org to get the FedEx number and shipping instructions.
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6. Follow the impact that you've made.
Your letters will be hand delivered to your Congressman on March 23 by NSSLHA Regional Councilors.
Encourage your members to follow the status of these issues by visiting the Federal Legislation & Regulatory Advocacy pages on the ASHA Web site.
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