Thank you for your interest in legislative advocacy! If you haven’t already, we recommend first checking out our action center. It’s a great place to get started, and the policies you’re interested in may already be part of our legislative agenda.

Below is a non-exhaustive list of additional organizations that may offer opportunities to be involved in their advocacy work. Please note that while we have listed each organization under a general category, all issues are intersectional and the work each organization does likely relates to several issues and/or areas of oppression.

This resource list was compiled as a companion to our CE Course “The Clinical is Political: Engaging Clients in Legislative Advocacy.” The training outlines strategies for clinical social workers to empower their clients to participate in legislative advocacy relevant to their lived experience. If you are a social worker with individual or group clients and have not yet taken the training, please consider doing so.

General:

Multi-issue:

Aging

The NCOA created Resources and Support for Older Adults Living Alone, a guide which includes practical tips and resource recommendations from geriatric health experts and advocates, such as:

• PACE programs, which use Medicare and Medicaid to help older adults attain nursing home-level care 
• HealthFinder, a resource with easy-to-understand articles, videos, and interactive tools to help older adults make informed decisions about their health
• NCOA’s BenefitsCheckUp tool which helps older adults identify their potential eligibility for benefits and programs

Behavioral Health /Substance Use

Child Welfare

Criminal Justice

Disability Justice

Economic Mobility /Poverty

Education

Food Security

Healthcare Access

Homelessness/Housing

Immigration

Intimate Partner Violence/Sexual Violence

LGBTQ+

Racial justice