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Advocacy Around the State
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Current as of July 6, 2010 CPCA advocacy efforts were heightened as clinic programs and services were threatened in the fiscal year 09-10. Clinic members around the state built a momentum of active and educated staff and patients. This page provides information on multiple efforts, ranging from the individual letters to legislators to public outcries through rallies and media.
The Stay Informed Network consists of community clinic and health center (CCHCs) advocates who want to be informed and updated on actions around state and national issues related to health and their impact to CCHCs and their patients. Current issues being highlighted are Healthcare Reform and the State Budget. If you are interested in receiving information, please contact anavarro@cpca.org with your name, email, city and zip code. CPCA is now on Twitter and Facebook. Please join our networks for up-to-date advocacy and information. January 26, 2009 Asian Health Services CEO Sherry Hirota was honored by the California Legislative Black Caucus on Thursday, January 21, with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Legacy Award for her life’s work in the spirit of Dr. King’s legacy of equality and justice. The Dr. King Legacy Award is given to those whose life’s work exemplifies the spirit of Dr. King’s legacy of equality and justice. Ms. Hirota's advocacy of health care access for the underserved has immeasurably helped communities facing poverty, language barriers, and health disparities. Ms. Hirota’s achievements include community health solutions to pedestrian safety, bridging the cultural divide between physician and patient, and ongoing advocacy to make health care a right for all Americans, all of which are extensions of Dr. King's legacy and dream. January 19, 2010 CPCA would like to congratulate Jane Garcia, CEO of La Clinica de La Raza Inc., Lorraine Estradas, CEO of Arroyo Vista Family Health Center and Soren Tjernell, Director of Government Affairs at the Community Clinic Consortium, who have been selected by the National Association of Community Health Centers' (NACHC) Federal & State Affairs staff as recipients of the NACHC 2009 Betsey K. Cooke Advocacy MVP Award for their hard work and dedication to building Health Center Advocacy power and furthering the Health Center Policy Agenda in Congress last year. The awards presentation will take place during the Congressional Awards Reception in D.C. on Thursday evening February 25, 2009. CPCA and The Consortia Policy Group have been cultivating grassroots advocates across the state on issues like health care reform and the state budget. Please click here for a video on their yearlong efforts to give community clinics and health centers a voice in the policies that will impact them. Voter Registration Please click here for CPCA's Voter Registration page. State Budget Below please find the list of members who have sent letters to Senate and/or Assembly Budget Committee members and forwarded to CPCA – thank you for these efforts. Please continue to send copies of your letters to Aracely Navarro at anavarro@cpca.org.
Additionally, we’d like to thank the following members who testified at a Senate Budget Committee Hearing:
AltaMed Services Corporation put together ADHC advocacy materials which can be found here. CPCA staff has been scheduling meetings with all Legislative offices of members of the Senate and Assembly Budget Committees. CPCA has met with the offices of the following members:
Senator Mimi Walters Coalition Partners Efforts Having Our Say- Local groups have begun "February District Days" -- including visits, calls, and actions -- to ask federal legislators to provide urgently-needed state aid to protect jobs and the safety net (and to ask state legislators to weigh in with their federal colleagues, too).
For more background, see the HHS Network letter on the Jobs Bill (note that these funds for CA can also be provided via other bills, too) and, for a national perspective, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' paper on state budgets and federal recovery funds: 2. Join Bay Area Advocates Thursday, February 11 at 12 NOON to call for federal funds for jobs and the safety net, by delivering valentines and serenading Sen. Feinstein and Boxer's San Francisco offices (right above Montgomery BART). For all the info, click here. Videos A YouTube video produced by Community Clinic Consortium on how proposed budget cuts would impact community clinics.
Health Care Reform Please click here to go to the past advocacy efforts for health care reform.
For more information, please contact Aracely Navarro at anavarro@cpca.org.
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