Make Your Voice Heard in Washington,
D.C.
Our
national advocacy program is up and running. We’re
excited to be working with the Health and Medicine Counsel
of Washington to raise awareness of scleroderma and increase
funding for scleroderma research through the NIH, CDC,
FDA, and other government entities. Meeting with your
senators and congressional representatives when they are
on their home turf can be a very effective way of educating
them about scleroderma, how it affects people in their
regions, and can sometimes be easier to get their attention
and focus than when they are in D.C. Please read
more about how to make your voice heard in Washington.
We have developed three forms to assist with meeting with
legislators:
Gavin Lindberg is with the Health and Medicine Counsel
of Washington, a consulting firm working on behalf of
the Foundation. |