Tools
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.
Postcards: Hold Congress Accountable
Protect Medicaid Digital Action Toolkit
Share your story and support for Medicaid using one of our social media filters!
Medicaid ACO Checklist for Advocates
The Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation has created a toolkit to help advocates play a central role in the design, implementation and oversight of Medicaid ACO programs, ito achieve their potential for advancing person-centered care.
Oral Health in the New Health Care Reality Fact Sheet
This fact sheet discusses the importance of Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in providing dental coverage and oral health services.
Consumer Complaints Toolkit: Health Insurance Resources for Health Advocates, Health Providers and Enrollment Assisters
This toolkit provides information to help advocates, health care providers, and enrollment assisters understand the consumer complaints process; help consumers file complaints; and engage in state-based advocacy to improve the complaints process.
Pyramid of Engagement
Strengthening Long-Term Services and Supports
This tool promotes consumer-focused MLTSS by making it easier to identify weaknesses and promote better practices. The tool combines a checklist for assessing MLTSS with examples of practices, policies or contract language that implement the criteria.
Glossary
Confused about that acronym or hyphenated word? See our glossary of commonly used terms.
Building a Case for Medicaid
State advocates have a critical role to play in the two fights looming over Medicaid - protecting existing Medicaid coverage against devastating budget cuts, and ensuring the implementation of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansion.
Medicaid Report Card
This webtool will help you propose budget-saving alternatives to harmful Medicaid cuts. Just click on your state to get a customized list of policies your state could enact to reduce costs while maintaining or even improving patient care.
Payment Reform Toolkit
States can save millions of dollars by providing a stronger incentive for hospitals to reduce their rates of potentially preventable events. This toolkit includes savings estimates, model legislation, and other resources to advocate for payment reform.
Storybanking
This online tool includes tips, hints and examples to find stories, collect and vet them, and to share them with your audience.
Lift Up Your Voice!
Lift Up Your Voice! is an interactive training program that educates people about the health care system. It teaches them the invaluable role individuals play in shaping health policy and introduces them to opportunities to influence policymakers.
Free Care Compendium
Community Catalyst’s Free Care Compendium summarizes the free care laws and regulations in each of the fifty states. The Compendium also includes national snapshot of regulatory and legislative trends across the states.
Roadmaps To Health Community Grants Advocacy Toolkit
The Roadmaps to Health Community Grants Advocacy Toolkit is designed to support and strengthen advocacy campaigns that influence key decision-makers and community members to take action.
Copy of 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.