Advocacy Tools
This toolkit page offers our library of advocacy and education resources. From basic advocacy know-hows, to how to build a better relationship with your legislators, to what you need to know and share about important hospice and palliative care policy priorities, these tools will help you grow as an advocate! Share this page and our individual resources to help others become advocates for hospice and palliative care!
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Getting Started with Advocacy
- Advocacy Basics with HAN: Watch on YouTube – 11/2023 | 46 mins
- The Whys, Ways, and Hows of Advocacy with HAN
- 5 Ways to Be an Effective Advocate
- HAN Advocacy Toolkit pdf (2019)
Policy Priority Documents and One-Pagers
- The 2023-2024 HAN Policy Priorities
- The Hospice Benefit
- President Carter and Long Hospice Stays
- Hospice Care: Payment Policy
- Value of Hospice in Medicare Study
- Program Integrity
- Hospice Special Focus Program
- Telehealth Flexibilities
- Community-Based Palliative Care
- Workforce Development
- Veterans Care
- Pediatric Palliative Care
Learn the Legislative Process
- *new* Policymaking 101: your guide to federal policymaking, including who’s who in Congress, how advocacy helps bills pass, important committees and agencies, and more!
- How a Bill Becomes a Law
- Check out this video series to understand how Congress works
Educational Tools
Meeting with Legislators
Sample Visit / Tour Requests
- 5 Steps to a Great Facility Visit
- Template for creating program-specific fact sheet to share information with your Members of Congress (template developed by Fairview Homecare & Hospice, MN)
- Inviting a Legislator to Visit Program
- Follow up on Invitation
- Thank You for Accepting Tour Invitation