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Advocating for Public Health Education Legislation and Health Promotion Funding |
Washington Examiner Article on 2012 Summit
Affordable Care Act has room for all - from the article: Recently, SOPHE members ascended into Washington, D.D. to participate in the group's annual Health Education Advocacy Summit. This year, part of the conference was dedicated to healthcare professionals, advocates, and students learning more about the ACA in a series of talks. PRIORITY ISSUE-Affordable Care Act (ACA) was moderated by Regina Galer-Unti, PhD, CHES, with Walden University. An overview of ACA & Prevention and Public Health Fund was covered by Susan Polan, PhD, American Public Health Association Associate Executive Director for Public Affairs and Advocacy. Also, there was a section that dealt with community transformation grants in ACA that was presented by Katie Adamson, from the YMCA of the USA. http://www.examiner.com/government-in-washington-dc/the-affordable-care-act-has-room-for-all
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15th Annual Health Education Advocacy Summit: March 3-5, 2012, Washington Court Hotel, Washington, DC.
The Coalition of National Health Education Organizations invites seasoned professionals, first-time advocates, and students to join us, along with partners, for one and a half days filled with educational advocacy workshops and trainings all leading up to a full day of congressional hill visits. Click here to learn more and register: http://www.sophe.org/advocacysummit.cfm.
Are you…
…Then the Health Education Advocacy Summit is the place for you!
Whether you’re a first-time advocate or have been involved in health policy for years, there never has been a more critical time to promote the public’s health.
Let the Health Education Advocacy Summit help you polish your advocacy skills in just 48 hours. This event offers basic, intermediate, and advanced-level advocacy training, and features issue-specific seminars by skilled government relations staff. The Summit culminates with visits with legislators or key staff on Capitol Hill —either individually or in state/district delegations.
A report from Trust for America's Health http://healthyamericans.org/reports/prevention-fund/
The New Prevention Fund: An Invest in the Future of Future Health of America - A STATE-BY-STATE LOOK AT PUBLIC HEALTH FUNDING AND KEY HEALTH FACTS
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) included the creation of a Prevention Fund – to provide communities around the country with more than $16 billion over the next 10 years to invest in effective, proven prevention efforts, like childhood obesity prevention and tobacco cessation.
Preventing disease and injury is the most effective, common-sense way to improve health in the United States. Too often, however, we focus on treating disease and injury after they occur instead of preventing them – providing sick care instead of health care.
Gather Your Stories about the Impact of
Proposed CDC Budget Reductions:
Your assistance is urgently needed!
Policymakers are
considering major cuts to federal funding for public health and
prevention.
CDC received an overall
$574 million cut
to CDC core health education-related programs. Details are
available in the justification document (see esp. reductions,
pages 10-12):
Policymakers are less likely to support deep cuts if they
understand how it would affect their states and constituents.
You can play an important role in educating policymakers
about the health and economic impact of reduced support for
public health and prevention by interviewing representatives
from state/local funded programs and completing this survey.
We are attempting to
answer----"What is the
health and program impact if your capacity to serve is reduced
to previous federal funding levels or eliminated all together?"
Once you gather the info, the survey will only take
10-12 minutes to complete.
Data from this survey will
help inform and drive our own individual, organizational, and
collective advocacy approaches at the Health Education Advocacy
Summit and for the 2012 federal fiscal year.
The data
will be summarized and reported on the
www.healtheducationadvocate.org
website and those of other CNHEO organizations.
Thank you in advance for responding and helping us to protect
the public's health.
You can find the survey
here!
For advocacy background info, see slides and audiocasts
and slides of 2 recent webinars available online at:
http://www.sophe.org/webinars.cfm
· Advocacy 101
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Making the Most of Attending the
Summit
HHS
Announces $750 Million Investment in Prevention
New health care law provides new funding to
reduce tobacco use, obesity and heart disease, and build
healthier communities. Department of Health and Human Services
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced a $750 million
investment in prevention and public health, funded through the
Prevention and Public Health Fund created by the new health care
law. Building on $500 million in investments last year,
these new dollars will help prevent tobacco use, obesity, heart
disease, stroke, and cancer; increase immunizations; and empower
individuals and communities with tools and resources for local
prevention and health initiatives. - - - read the entire New
Release at
E-mail advocacy updates to
Jim Grizzell
jvgrizzell@csupomona.edu
