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SNAP Enrollment Trends and Funding Opportunity
Dear John,
We’ve got some exciting things to share this week including a tweetchat and a fascinating tool compiling health care metrics for all 435 congressional districts and Washington, DC. Plus, we've got an upcoming member-exclusive webinar on preparing for the medicaid unwinding. Become an active member [[link removed]] to register.
Tweetchat: February 22: Medicaid Unwinding - Keeping Immigrant Families Insured
MomsRising / Mamas Con Poder, Georgetown Center for Children & Families, and other PIF partners are organizing a tweetchat on the upcoming end of Medicaid continuous coverage. Join us at 2pm ET on Wednesday, February 22, using the Twitter hashtag #WellnessWed and our #ProtectFamilies tag to spotlight the distinct challenges facing immigrant families and actions governments and nonprofits can take to keep families insured. PIF partners can access sample tweets and images.
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Resource: Expansive Health Metrics Database
Members of Congress want to know how policies impact their district and their constituents. A new dashboard [[link removed]] by researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation can help and support your education and outreach to federal and Congressional policymakers. The tool has data on 36 different health metrics for all 435 congressional districts and Washington, DC.
Each district snapshot contains demographic data about the district, including percentages of the population by race and ethnicity, as well as specific facts about health status and access to care across the district. Advocates can use these data to educate their congressional delegation about what is happening at home, as well as to highlight the value of certain interventions.
We encourage you to play around with the database and see how it reflects your experiences. While the data and analysis are not entirely comprehensive (for example, the database does not include data on immigration status), there are lots of good nuggets of information to inform your advocacy and support your work with policymakers.
Check out the district snapshots, the metric maps and the metric by demographics for a full picture of what the tool has to offer. You will need to input a specific Congressional district but there is a prompt on the main homepage that helps you identify your district.
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Working Group Calls
Working groups offer active members an opportunity to shape key aspects of PIF's work:
COMMUNICATIONS: Develops PIF’s communications strategy and materials, including message strategy, media relations, and digital outreach.
COMMUNITY EDUCATION: Convenes members to share best practices and approaches on how to educate and empower immigrant families on their eligibility for public programs and tap their power as advocates for change.
FEDERAL ADVOCACY: Cultivates Members of Congress as champions and spokespeople. Develops and advances legislative and administrative policy change strategies.
POLICY/ LEGAL (NERDS): Provides technical analysis of proposed and implemented policy changes.
RESEARCH: Convenes researchers working on issues connected to PIF’s agenda, and identifies research needs. Makes data accessible to advocates, policymakers, and the public.
STATE POLICY: Brings together state advocates and legal and policy experts to provide analysis and develop strategies to mitigate the effect of federal policy changes and advance state and local reforms that improve safety net access for immigrant families.
Click here [[link removed]] to sign your organization up as an active member and select one or more working groups.
In Solidarity,
Adriana Cadena & Cheasty Anderson, on behalf of the PIF Team
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