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Support Health Care for Immigrant Families
Dear John,
With summer in full swing and school starting soon in many parts of the country, we’ve got good news to share about upcoming legislation and resources you can use to raise awareness of and improve access to safety net programs. As always, please contact us with questions or ideas. Meanwhile, don’t forget that PIF still has two sign-on letters open (one to support the LIFT the BAR Act, and one to protect the Biden public charge rule). Please sign on if you haven’t already!
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HEAL
Act
Reintroduction
[#400]
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Help
Families
Get
the
Food
they
Need
This
Summer
[#Leg]
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North
Carolina
Coalition’s
Public
Charge
Outreach
[#Medicaid]
Take Action: HEAL Act Reintroductio n
The HEAL for Immigrant Families Act (HEAL Act) will soon be reintroduced in the 118th Congress next week! The legislation [[link removed]] :
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Removes
unnecessary
barriers
to
health
care
access
for
immigrant
families;
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Provides
access
to
public
and
affordable
health
coverage
for
people
with
DACA;
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Provides
otherwise-eligible
lawfully
present
immigrants
access
to
Medicare,
Medicaid,
or
the
Children’s
Health
Insurance
Program
(CHIP)
without
a
five-year
waiting
period;
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Allows
undocumented
immigrants
to
purchase
subsudized
health
insurance
through
the
Affordable
Care
Act
(ACA)
marketplace;
and
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Allows
states
to
expand
Medicaid
and
CHIP
programs
to
undocumented
immigrants.
Take action to support the HEAL Act reintroduction: call your Member of Congress and encourage them to cosponsor this bill!
This landmark health care legislation is a critical step towards improving immigrants’ access to benefits and PIF is proud to stand with the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice [[link removed]] , NAPAWF [[link removed]] and the HEAL coalition in support of HEAL.
Resource: Help Families Get the Food they Need This Summer
Our partners at Share Our Strength have launched a new Share Summer campaign, aimed at helping families with children get the food they need. Encourage the families you work with to visit NoKidHungry.org/WhatsApp [[link removed]] . They’ll get a customized WhatsApp message listing sites in their communities serving free meals for teens and kids under 18 – no registration needed, no questions asked, and no immigration consequences. Click below for a bilingual (English and Spanish) toolkit you can use to spread the word. As you use it on social media, please add our #ProtectFamilies tag when possible.
Get the Toolkit [[link removed]]
Partner Spotlight: North Carolina Coalition’s Public Charge Outreach
PIF has designed many of our education and outreach materials to be customizable for partners’ local needs. PIF Partners in North Carolina created exciting, vibrant outreach graphics about the new public charge rule, using local images and simple messages to catch community members’ attention. Through in-person events, digital outreach, and virtual sessions, the coalition reached over 12,000 North Carolinians!
You can create your customized version of PIF’s social media graphics, presentation materials, fact sheets, using the button below.
NC Coalition Graphics [[link removed]]
Customizable Toolkit [[link removed]]
In Solidarity,
Adriana Cadena & Cheasty Anderson, on behalf of the PIF Team
Exclusive: Active Member Only Toolkits
5 Year Bar [[link removed]] LIFT the BAR [[link removed]]
COVID-19/Vaccine [[link removed]] Public Charge [[link removed]] ITIN/Resources [[link removed]]
Working Group Calls
COMMUNICATIONS
Next call: Friday, 07/14 at 12pm ET (9am PT).
Join: Here [[link removed]]
Notes: Here [[link removed]]
Contact: [email protected] [[email protected]]
Listserv email: [email protected] [[email protected]]
COMMUNITY EDUCATION
Next call: Tuesday, 07/11 at 3pm ET (12 pm PT)
Join: Here [[link removed]]
Notes: Here [[link removed]]
Contact: [email protected] [[email protected]]
Listserv email: [email protected] [[email protected]]
FEDERAL ADVOCACY
*Note: No July call
Next call: Tuesday, 08/01 at 3pm ET (12pm PT)
Notes: [[link removed]] Here [[link removed]]
Contact: [email protected] [[email protected]]
Listserv email: [email protected] [[email protected]]
POLICY/ LEGAL (NERDS)
Next call: Thursday, 07/20 at 4pm ET (1pm PT).
Join: Here [[link removed]]
Notes: Here [[link removed]]
Contact: [email protected] [[email protected]]
Listserv email: [email protected] [[email protected]]
RESEARCH
Next call: Wednesday, 07/12 at 3pm ET (12 pm PT).
Join: Here [[link removed]]
Contact: [email protected] [[email protected]] [[link removed]]
Listserv email: [email protected] [[email protected]]
STATE POLICY
*Note: No July call
Next call: Thursday, 08/08 at 1pm ET (11am PT).
Join: Here [[link removed]]
Notes: Here [[link removed]]
Contact: [email protected] [[email protected]]
Listserv email: [email protected] [[email protected]]
Visit our website at www.pifcoalition.org [[link removed]]
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