One of our roles in building healthy and resilient communities is to identify advocacy opportunities at the local, state and national levels. We share information and insight with community partners about legislation and policy conversations that may impact the health and well-being of people in our communities.
But our advocacy capacity is limited, so this year, we are piloting a partnership with Kansas Action for Children to help us keep the state United Way network and our local nonprofit partners informed about legislation that could positively or negatively impact our ALICE population.
Each week, KAC has been providing a comprehensive list of bills and expected action on those bills to UWKV. We then share out that report with the United Ways of Kansas network and to our local partners during our Tuesday call. Having this updated information allows us and our partners to quickly determine when our voices may need to join the lawmaking conversation.We advocate through in-person or submitted testimony. We are grateful to KAC for the very heavy weekly lift throughout the legislative session. Lawmaking moves quickly and revisions/alternate bills can make important issues difficult to track. KAC is removing that barrier for us and increasing our capacity to speak up for ALICE.