- Health Advocacy:
Learn how to become informed and empowered to be your own best health care advocate. The CT Health Policy Project, with support from the CT Health Foundation (www.cthealth.org/), has developed an advocacy toolkit for consumers.
- OneWorld Recommends this project listed below.
It is a step-by-step guide on how to be an effective advocate for your child’s health needs. The principles and implementation steps can be applied to any health situation for adults, the elderly or physically handicapped. They can also e adjusted to apply to other subject areas.
Please get access to the entire program and workbook at:
www.ecac-parentcenter.org/learning/documents/WebWorkbook.pdf
How to Be an Effective Health Care Advocate is a Comprehensive Workbook Program
Presented by:
The NC Family to Family Health Information Center
A project of the Exceptional Children’s Assistance Center
Developed in 2008
The Family to Family Health Information Center is a Program of The Exceptional
Children’s Assistance Center (ECAC) and is affiliated with Family Voices of
North Carolina. This workshop was developed with funding from the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal
and Child Health Bureau, Division of Services for Children with Special Health Needs.
The NC Family to Family Health Information Center operates
under the auspices of grant # H84MC08000.
- Ten Steps to Advocacy in Healthcare Published by International Council of Nurses
While this guide is intended for Health Care Professionals, the basic 10 principles can be adapted and applied by consumers (individuals & families). OneWorld recommends reading this.
This guide was published in May 2010- and covers 10 steps to effective advocacy: ... a New Routes Leader at "10 Steps to Better Healthcare" http://newroutes.org/node/35162
- How a Bill Becomes a Law (Understanding the process is a key aspect of being truly empowered. The board game linked below makes it easier to understand the legislative process.)
Families USA: The Voice for Health Care Consumers. Being an effective advocate on legislative issues also means understanding how Congress works.
Families USA have reprinted a cartoon that depicts the legislative process as a board game. It's quite an accurate guide of how the process of getting a bill through Congress works. It takes you step-by-step through the rules under which Congress operates. We at OneWorld join Families USA in hoping it will be useful to you in understanding how a bill becomes a law. Once the President has received a bill passed by Congress, he may sign it into law or veto it within 10 days.
www.familiesusa.org › Resources › Tools for Advocates › Tips
- Health Care's Change Agent (worthwhile reading)
By David Ignatius
Copyright 2010, Washington Post Writers Group
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