Senior Vice President Council of Graduate Schools Normal, Illinois, United States
Disclosure(s):
Robert M. Augustine, PhD: No financial or non-financial relationships to disclose
Abstract: This seminar will open with a definition of advocacy and recognition of ASHA's advocacy leaders at both national and state levels. A comprehensive review of ASHA's 2023 Public Policy Agenda, advocacy tools, and state advocacy leaders will follow. The seminar will conclude with a discussion of strategies and resources that ASHA members can use to advocate for policy change at local, state, and national levels.
Summary: ASHA's 2023 Public Policy Agenda includes priorities focusing on five areas. These include school priorities, health care priorities, professional practice and workforce priorities, client/patient, and student priorities and diversity, equity, and inclusion priorities. The session will review the priorities in each of these categories. Following review of the agenda, the seminar will summarize the tools and resources available to ASHA members to engage with policy makers and promote policies that impact the professions. Participants will learn about their State Education Advocacy Leaders (SEALs), State Advocacy for Medicare Policy (StAMPs), and State Advocacy for Reimbursement (STARs). Participants can consider opportunities for advocacy leadership by connecting to ASHA Headlines, Take Action, and Grasstops Envoy. Participants will learn about the value of ASHA's Political Action Committee (PAC), and ASHA's newest resources for advocacy, the Committee of Ambassadors.
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
Define advocacy and its application to influencing local, state, and national policy.
List ASHA's advocacy leaders and 2-3 advocacy priorities important to constituents based on ASHA's 2023 Public Policy Agenda.
Describe 2-3 of the resources that ASHA members can access to influence state or national policies.
