We’re one week into Action August! You’ve been doing great work so far making yourself heard. Keep up the good work with these opportunities for advocacy, and be sure to stay in touch by joining the Facebook event here. [[link removed]]

This Action August, you can take part in grassroots advocacy [[link removed]] to #StopTheShock after the court ruling overturning the FDA’s ban [[link removed]] on electric shock devices used at the Judge Rotenberg Center. You can use ASAN’s email tool to urge your members of Congress to expand home- and community-based services [[link removed]] by passing the Better Care, Better Jobs Act, which will expand services, increase wages, and create new jobs. Take a stand for the nearly 8 million people in the US who rely on SSI by calling for long-overdue improvements to SSI [[link removed]] . Send emails to end subminimum wage by advocating for the Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act [[link removed]] , or fight to end restraint and seclusion in schools by passing the Keeping All Students Safe Act [[link removed]] . Want to learn more about any of these issues? Check out our Action August page [[link removed]] for more information.

You can take part in all of our Action August advocacy just by sending emails with online tools -- no phone call required! But if you want to call your members of Congress, you can use our scripts for your phone call. You can find out more about calling your members of Congress from our fact sheets on making phone calls to elected officials, available in Plain Language [[link removed]] and Easy-Read [[link removed]] forms. If you don’t know who your members of Congress are, you can find out here [[link removed]] . If you need help in making a phone call, you can use our Proxy Caller system [[link removed]] . Want to help someone else make a call? Consider signing up to be a proxy caller. [[link removed]]

Whether you take action on all of these important issues, or just pick one to get started with, you’re making a difference by speaking out. We’re stronger when we advocate together! [[link removed]] Thank you for joining us this August to take action for our community.


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