Tools
The Advocate’s Resource: Community Power Leading the Charge to Improve Community Economic Stability
The goal of this Advocate's Resource is to equip advocates with important background information and lessons from successful campaign strategies to pass state-level policies that help curb medical debt.
EVENT: Closing the Medicaid Coverage Gap
Community Catalyst, The Center for American Progress, and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights have a conversation with Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) about the need to close the coverage gap.
VIDEO: Centering Racial Justice in Hospital Community Benefit Webinar
WEBINAR: Building authentic community-hospital partnerships and fostering community engagement.
Video: Voices for Health Justice
Video: States Act to Protect Consumers from Medical Debt
Video: Community Voices for Medicaid
This video highlights the impacts of the Medicaid Ambassador programs from our partners in El Centro in Kansas, the North Carolina AIDS Action Network, and Paraquad in Missouri.
Peers Speak Out: Priority Outcomes for Substance Use Treatment and Services
This is the first national examination of treat-ment outcomes prioritized by people with substance use disorders.
Medical Debt: By the Numbers
Check out our medical debt infographic.
Making Convenient Care the Right Care for All: Improving State Oversight of Urgent Care Centers and Retail Health Clinics
This brief looks at oversight of "convenient care" clinics and considers whether they are serving a fair share of low-income or uninsured consumers and are providing an appropriate array of services, including urgent reproductive and sexual health care.
Leveraging Funds: Tools, Insights and Suggestions from Advocates and Funders to Support Your Work and Long(er)-Term Sustainability
This collection of Leveraging Funds tools offers insights and suggestions from both advocates who successfully used Health Justice Fund (HJF) grants to secure matching funds for their work as well as an interview with a Georgia funder.
American Rescue Plan Act: Health Provisions Analysis
An outline of key provisions of the COVID-19 relief bill according to our health justice priorities. We will continue to add to this document as the bill passes through committees and floor votes, highlighting changes.
Let's Talk About Tech: Databases and Platforms to Manage and Engage Your Network
[Addendum] At a Safe Distance: Grassroots Organizing Strategies that Comply With Physical Distancing Protocols
At a Safe Distance: Grassroots Organizing Strategies that Comply With Physical Distancing Protocols
Racial Equity in State and Local COVID-19 Responses Checklist
Federal Response to COVID-19 and State Opportunities
Guiding Principles for Gender-Affirming Care in the time of COVID-19 Information for Trans, Non-Binary, and Gender-Diverse Patients
National Indian Health Board: COVID-19 Tribal Resource Center
Racial Inequities Op-Ed and LTE Framework
Racial Equity Tools: COVID-19 - Racial Equity and Social Justice Resources
Protecting Immigrant Families: Coronavirus Talking Points
Advocating for Measures That Matter: Improving Quality Measures for Substance Use Disorders
This set of tools aims to strengthen consumer advocacy for better quality services through stronger, person-centered quality measurement of substance use disorders services.
Know Your Attorney General: A Guide to Health Care Advocacy in the Affordable Care Act Lawsuit Era
State Attorneys General (AGs) are critical health care stakeholders. This guide provides information about the role AGs play in policy making and tips for advocates urging their AG to take action to protect and defend quality, affordable care.
Toolkit for Expanding Substance Use Prevention and Early Intervention in Schools
This toolkit provides a set of resources and information to support efforts to expand school-based services for substance use prevention and early intervention.
Resources for Enrollment Assistance
An Advocates Guide to Health Insurance Reform
The goal of these guides is to arm state advocates with important background information and advocacy considerations on key topics surfacing across the country related to private insurance coverage and marketplace issues.
Funding Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) with Young People
This toolkit is a roadmap for advocates to identify and leverage a range of funding sources to support an effective prevention strategy called SBIRT (screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment) in schools and medical settings.
Our Voices Have Power: A Storybanking Guide
Our guide will help you build and maintain an effective storybanking system that brings real people's stories to the forefront of your advocacy work.
It's All About the Base: A Guide to Building a Grassroots Organizing Program
This guide provides consumer health advocates with information about how to build a strong grassroots base, thereby enhancing your ability to win policy change campaigns.
CHIP Defense Toolkit: Ready, Set, REFUND!
Get your coalition ready for Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) defense.