Preparing for Public Charge Ruling

Dear Allies,

We’ve got some exciting updates regarding our response plan for the expected final public charge regulation announcement, an important survey on access to Medicaid, and additional ways to stay connected. Keep reading to learn more.

Final Public Charge Rapid Response Plan

Once the public charge rule is finalized, we’re planning multiple events and resources to get you up to speed on its changes and implications, and to help you quickly share important information with your networks and the families you serve. 

Our goal for the first few days is to make sure that mainstream and in-language media, and our partners, share accurate information. We also want policymakers to know that we expect them to leverage governments’ communication resources to reach immigrant families.

Here’s what you can expect from us within the first 3 days:

• Email alert with high level info about the rule 
• PIF member call
• Explainer videos
• “What advocates need to know” resource
• Partner toolkit with messages
• Twitter FAQ and/or Tweetchat
• Webinar
• Working group conversations
• Updates to keepyourbenefits.org

Make sure to bookmark our website, as we’ll add important materials there.

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PIF recently started transitioning over to a new contact management system, which we will be fully switching to by the end of August. Please make sure to sign up here as soon as possible, or you will no longer receive updates from PIF. 

Survey: Challenges enrolling for Medicaid

The Immigration Research Initiative (IRI) is conducting research to better understand the challenges that immigrants face when enrolling for Medicaid. IRI recently posted this microsite with stories, based on one-on-one interview, about the challenges people face, and the help they may get. IRI is now conducting a short and simple survey, followed by an invitation for people to share some of their story or to talk with IRI staff about their experience. All participants will be compensated with a e-VISA gift card. Feel free to share the flyer with your clients or community!

#WellnessWed Tweet Chat

Wow! Thank you so much to everyone who participated in the #WellnessWed tweet chat with @MomsRising and @MamasConPoder last week. Thanks to you, engagement was in the thousands and the #WellnessWed hashtag had a potential reach of 20 million! 

A special thank you to Senator Hirono for joining in on the conversation, and to Families USA, Food Research & Action Center, National Health Law Program, NETWORK, UnidosUS, First Focus Campaign for Children, Community Catalyst, and National Immigration Law Center for partnering with us.

In Solidarity,

Adriana Cadena & Cheasty Anderson, on behalf of the PIF Team

Visit us at https://protectingimmigrantfamilies.org/