AUCD pre-DPS 2021: Policy Education 101

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Friday, March 19, 2021
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET
Location: Zoom Webinar

Webinar Description:

Objectives:
- Review basics of federal government
- Consider ways to educate members and connect real experience and expertise to policy.
Prework
- Identify your congressional delegations
Post work
- Identify point of contact for your members - key staffer/email member twitter websites
- Review difference between education and advocacy
- Make appointments
- Subscribe to DPN
Bonus work
- Identify state legislators
MCH Leadership Competencies Addressed (Policy)
- MCH leaders will demonstrate a working knowledge of:
  - Public policy-making processes at local, state, and national levels
  - Appropriate methods for informing and educating policymakers about the needs of MCH populations and the impact of current policies on the populations