Learning Objectives: Session participants will learn: Identify steps on how to organize and conduct Information and Education visits with state policy makers. Describe how to develop community and/or individual network advocacy platforms. Explain how to recruit and train constituents to conduct Information and Education visits.
Abstract: For four years, the California Ethnic Tobacco Education Networks, along with hundreds of their constituents, have conducted Information and Education (I & E) visits with state legislators in Sacramento to promote and strengthen California’s tobacco control program. The goal is to identify both joint and individual needs specific to each ethnic community in the form of an advocacy platform. The I & E visits serve as a means for communicating these advocacy platform issues in-person to state legislators. The I & E visits involve several steps, including: 1) developing Joint and Individual Network advocacy platforms; 2) recruiting constituents to conduct the visits; 3) arranging legislator appointments; 4) providing constituent training; and 5) the single day visit event at the State Capitol.
Learning OBJECTIVES:
Session participants will learn:
1) How to organize and conduct Information and Education visits with state policy makers.
2) How to develop community and/or individual network advocacy platforms.
3) How to recruit and train constituents to conduct Information and Education visits.
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