Advocacy Tools: Kits
Health Action Conference Tool Kits
Action Kits
- Talking about Medicare: Your Guide to Understanding the Program is designed to help beneficiaries and their families think through basic health care issues. It also provides information on how the Part D drug program works, how to choose a drug plan that meets beneficiary needs, and how low-income enrollees can get additional help with drug costs. (April 2006)
- Making Public Programs Work for Communities of Color: An Action Kit for Community Leaders This action kit is designed to provide community leaders with the information, tools, and resources necessary to engage in health advocacy and improve the health and well-being of their communities. (January 2006)
- Ideas that Work: Expanding Health Coverage for Workers Interested in expanding coverage in your state by building on the existing employer-based system? This kit will give you the information you need to build a health coverage initiative through private, employer-based insurance. The kit offers basic information on employer expansions; case studies of California and Hawaii, two states that have already adopted employer expansions; a "decision guide" to help you think through the outlines of your initiative; a quick look at some possible legal roadblocks; tables with state-by-state data about employment and insurance coverage by size of business; and additional resources. $20.00 (October 2004)
- Preserving Medicaid in Tough Times: An Action Kit for State Advocates, 2003 Update Designed to help advocates respond state budget cuts and the effects these cuts may have on Medicaid beneficiaries. Kit includes background information, discussion of options, state-based strategies, case studies, and other resources. $20.00 (January 2003)
- Prescription Drug Cost and Coverage: What Can States Do? An Action Kit for Advocates Designed to help advocates respond state budget cuts and the effects these cuts may have on Medicaid beneficiaries. Kit includes background information, discussion of options, state-based strategies, case studies, and other resources. $20.00 (January 2003)
- Preserving Medicaid in Tough Times: An Action Kit for State Advocates Designed to help advocates respond state budget cuts and the effects these cuts may have on Medicaid beneficiaries. Kit includes background information, discussion of options, state-based strategies, case studies, and other resources. $15.00 (May 2002)
- Expanding Coverage for Low-Income Parents: An Action Kit for Advocates Designed for the busy advocate, this set of materials will help you design and carry out a campaign to expand coverage of low-income parents in your state. Kit includes background pieces, what other states have done, case studies, media strategies, and a PowerPoint presentation on disk. $15.00 (January 2001)
- Expanding Medicaid: State Options Could Your State Do More to Expand Medicaid for Seniors? 12 pp. $3.00. (December 2001)
- What Did Welfare Reform Do to Medicaid in Your State and What Can You Do About It: An Action Kit for Advocates Designed for the busy advocate, this set of materials will help you identify problems in your state's administration of Medicaid and, for each problem, suggests solutions. Profiles of successful organizing efforts in four states, ideas for garnering media coverage, and other resource materials included. $15.00. (January 2000)
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