Visit APA's Advocacy Booth and Be Counted!
While you're at APA's 2007 annual meeting, visit the Advocacy Booth in the APA Resource Center to write your legislators on issues of importance to psychiatry. Staff of APA's Department of Government Relations will be on hand to show you how to use APA's Advocacy Action Center Web site. This Web site provides an interactive tool that enables you and other APA members to communicate with elected officials via e-mail, fax, or telephone and search for pertinent federal and state legislation.
But your involvement in advocacy doesn't have to wait until May. You can start immediately by going to the Members Corner on APA's Web site at<www.psych.org> and clicking on “Advocacy Action Center.” Also, you can join APA's grass-roots network so that you'll receive action alerts from APA and information on legislative and regulatory developments that may impact your patients or your practice.
Here are other resources that will be available to APA members at the Advocacy Booth:
A free 110th Congressional Directory | |||||
Federal and state grass-roots advocacy pocket guides | |||||
Informational CD containing fact sheets on mental health policy issues, APA testimony to congressional committees, regulatory comments, tips on communicating with legislators, APA letters to Congress, and recent APA press releases. | |||||
More information is available by e-mailing Chatrane Birbal at [email protected].
