Backyard Advocacy
NAHC Summer Backyard Advocacy: Social Media Blitz

The majority of U.S. Representatives and Senators are avid and enthusiastic users of social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter. Many of them even manage their own accounts and respond personally to messages. These digital platforms help them to understand what you, their constituents, care about and give them candid insight into the world around […]
Read MoreNAHC Summer Backyard Campaign Wrap-Up and Warm-Up to Fall Advocacy

Summer may be gone, but many home care and hospice advocates spent the warmest months contacting their elected representatives to lobby for access to quality health care in the home. Your members of Congress have returned to the nation’s capital with your voices firmly planted in their minds and hopefully a renewed interest in supporting […]
Read MoreWeek 3 of NAHC’s Summer Backyard Advocacy Campaign: Thank Our Supporters

The National Association for Home Care and Hospice’s Summer Backyard Advocacy Campaign is in full swing across the nation; and on behalf of everyone at NAHC, THANK YOU for rising to the challenge, for adding your voices, sharing your hearts and demonstrating your actions in support of the home health care and hospice communities. We’ve […]
Read MoreNAHC Summer Backyard Advocacy Campaign Continues with a Letter to the Editor Challenge

Welcome to week 2 of the NAHC Summer Backyard Advocacy Campaign! Thank you to everyone who participated last week with reaching out to your local elected officials and scheduled or held meetings with them to talk about our key legislative priorities. You are the heartbeat of our community and we couldn’t do this without your […]
Read MoreNAHC Summer Backyard Advocacy Week 1 Challenge: “Building Relationships Between Advocates and Elected Officials”

Home health and hospice fulfill the three goals of health care – popular, effective, affordable. When you have a great story to tell the public and elected officials, you need a strong grassroots campaign to make sure people hear that story. Successful grassroots advocacy campaigns are built on strong relationships between advocates and their elected […]
Read MoreJoin NAHC Summer Backyard Advocacy 2019 During the August Recess!

August marks the beginning of the Annual Summer Congressional Recess. Your elected officials will be in their local home offices, right in your own backyard for the next several weeks, and we want you to engage with them about our key legislative priorities. Advocacy starts at home with you, your staff, patients and families. You […]
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