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Advocacy Tools

ADVOCACY TOOLS

 

Click here to see a brochure listing all the services that our department provide to PAT Affiliates.

 

Click here to see a brochure listing all the services that our department provide to PAT Affiliates.

As a Parents as Teachers program coordinator or parent educator you can access a variety of advocacy resources to help you stay informed, take action, and maximize your time.

The Government & Community Engagement Department also provides targeted technical assistance, including writing legislative testimony and policy analysis. We also offer media support such as writing letters to the editor and media training. Our department also helps Affiliates with developing state specific advocacy materials such as one-pagers and fact sheets.


Affiliate Advocacy Training Options

  1. Schedule a live advocacy training webinar for your next professional development day! Click here to schedule a time.

  2. Access free Parents as Teachers Advocacy Toolkits & Prerecorded Companion Webinars. Scroll down to see them all.

Tools to Use:

Using Social Media for Advocacy

  • Click here for the Facebook toolkit.

  • Click here for the Twitter toolkit.

  • Click here to listen to the recorded companion webinar: “Get Social. Why Facebook, Twitter & Social Networking Matter to Your Organization, with special guest Melanie Ross Levin, Director of Engagement & Mobilization at the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC).

  • Download the webinar slides with clickable links to other resources.

  • Click here to listen to “Leveraging Social Media Messages with #HomeVisiting Messages that Work!” Featuring Dr. Kathy Pillow Price, Director of the Arkansas Home Visiting Network and Lisa Foehner, Director of Advocacy at Parents as Teachers National Center. Recorded on May 28, 2018.

  • Click here for the webinar slides.

  • Click here for the “Who to Follow” handout.

Building a Relationship with your Elected Official

Building a Strong Advisory Committee

  • Click here to listen to “Staying Connected: Using Virtual Tools to Amp Up Your Advisory Committee” featuring Dr. Dorian Traube, Associate Professor at USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and Angela Rau, Virtual Parent Education Specialist. Dorian and Angela administer the PAT/USC Telehealth Home Visiting Pilot Project. Recorded on June 27, 2018.

  • Click here for the webinar slides.

  • Click here for the Building a Strong Advisory Committee toolkit.

  • Click here for the Top 20 Most Popular Web Conferencing Software handout.

  • Click here for the PAT@USC Telehealth Advisory Board List handout

Infant and Toddler Messaging Guide

  • Listen to the recorded companion webinar, “Making the Case I: Infant and Toddler Messaging,” with special guests Barbara Gebhard, Assistant Director of Public Policy and Elizabeth DiLauro, Director of Advocacy.

  • Download the Infant and Toddler Messaging Guide, by Zero to Three.

  • Download the webinar slides.

  • Download the handout “Framing Early Childhood Development Framing Early Childhood Development Recommendations for Infant-Toddler Professionals & Advocates.”

  • Download the handout Parents as Teachers evidence-based brochure.

Engaging Decision Makers at Your Summer Roll and Read Event

  • Click here for the Roll and Read toolkit.

  • Listen to the recorded companion webinar, “Engaging Decision Makers at Your Summer Roll and Read Event,” with special guests Ms. Patricia Kempthorne, Former First Lady of Idaho, and Miriam Staffen, Developmental Specialist, from Idaho’s South Central Public Health District.

  • Download the webinar slides.

  • Download sample articles about Roll & Read events.

  • Download a sample Roll & Read sponsorship form.

  • Please contact publicpolicy@parentsasteachers.org for access to the Roll & Read logos.

Advocacy Day at the Capitol

  • Download the Advocacy Day at the Capitol toolkit.

  • Listen to the recorded companion webinar: “Parents Take the Capitol by Storm: How to Plan a Parents as Teachers Day at the Capitol,” with special guest Callie Benton, President of the Kansas Parents as Teachers Association.

  • Download the slides for the presentation.

Giving Legislative Testimony

Download the toolkit

Listen to one of two recorded webinars on this topic:

1. Demystifying Legislative Testimony and Leveraging Unlikely Advocates, (recorded 3.30.16) with special guest Laura Wells, Washington State Director of Fight Crime Invest in Kids.

Downloads

2. Give Legislative Testimony Like A Pro, Two Affiliate Supervisors Show Us the Ropes, (recorded 4.25.18) with special guests, Mackenzie Grayson, PAT Supervisor at Normandy Schools Collaborative and Shauna Kerperin, PAT Coordinator at Blair Oaks R-II School District.

Downloads

Writing Public Comments

  • Click here for the toolkit

  • Companion webinar coming soon!

Oral Health & Home Visiting: Awareness Webinar

The Home Visiting Yearbook: Bringing Data to Life

 

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Download the handouts:

 

NHVRC 2017 Home Visiting Yearbook

 

NHVRC 2017 Home Visiting Yearbook

 

NHVRC Issue Brief, Home Visiting Research, Evaluation, and Quality Improvement Efforts Supported by the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program

 

NHVRC Issue Brief, Home Visiting Research, Evaluation, and Quality Improvement Efforts Supported by the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program

 

NHVRC Issue Brief, Technology in Home Visiting: Strengthening Service Delivery and Professional Development Using Virtual Tools

 

NHVRC Issue Brief, Technology in Home Visiting: Strengthening Service Delivery and Professional Development Using Virtual Tools

Please send us an email if you would like to talk to our Government and Community Engagement team in person or would like to set up personalized training for your group publicpolicy@parentsasteachers.org.

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