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Sarita Rogers
MA Children's Trust Fund
294 Washington St., Suite 640
Boston, MA 02108
617-727-8957
617-727-8997
Email: srogers@mctf.state.ma.us

Lucia Erikson-Kincheloe
Prevent Child Abuse Missouri
606 E. Capitol
Jefferson City, MO 65101
573-634-5223
573-632-8627 fax
Email: PCAMissouri@earthlink.net

Lea Butterfield
Healthy Homes
1051 W. Ave. M #205
Lancaster, CA 93534
661-726-6450
661-726-6463 fax
Email: lea.butterfield@avhospital.org


Guiding Questions

1) Letter-writing campaigns work at more than one level. Do you have both a detailed letter from an executive director/ board president, and a more general mass mail letter prepared for use when needed?

2) To begin your letter-writing campaign, have you: Identified key decision makers to be targeted? Prepared for your grassroots an action alert with a sample letter attached?

3) Is your letter: concise, with the purpose clearly stated in the first paragraph? Is the tone constructive? Is there flexibility for the writer to supplement his/her personal perspective?


Additional Resources

Visit http://capwiz.com/pca/mail/compose/ to see how you can write letters to your legislators on various issues using Prevent Child Abuse America's CapWiz system.

See http://www.ounceofprevention.org/index.php?section=policy&page=alertdetail for a specific example about how one state is writing letters on behalf of their program.

Tips on effective letter-writing. More...

Visit http://63.66.87.48/cweb4/index.cfm?orgcode=NHSA&hotissue=1 to see how Head Start formulates their letter writing campaign. Think about how this approach could be modified for your advocacy work with Healthy Families America.



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