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This spring, the Center for Civic Engagement hosted our 4th annual Advocacy Day, reimagined into Advocacy Week! 

This post contains an overview of the week, including specific Advocacy Actions provided by the speakers. Some of these contain specific legislative bills that are supported by the corresponding speaker. If you want to advocate for these bills, you can call or email your elected official in Massachusetts to ask them to support them. .

 

Mental Health

• Michelle Ward, Monica Luke, and Takeya Faison
• National Alliance on Mental Illness Massachusetts ()

Mental Health Advocacy Actions

Access to Care

• An Act for supportive care for serious mental illness ( / )

• An Act to better coordinate suicide prevention services, behavioral health crisis care and emergency services through 988 implementation ( / )

Criminal Legal Reform

• An Act to ensure the constitutional rights and human dignity of prisoners on mental health watch ( / )

• An Act To Create Alternatives For Community Emergency Services (Aces) (/ )

Housing

• An Act promoting housing stability and homelessness prevention in Massachusetts (/ )

Immigrant Rights

• Elsabel Rincon (elsabelr@nswin.org) 
• Welcome Immigrant Network () 

Advocacy Actions

End Prevention Through Deterrence and Operation Streamline

Massachusetts Safe Communities Act ( / )

• Find more information here:

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Massachusetts Work and Family Mobility Act ( / ) 

• Email Elsabel to get involved in the Welcome Immigrant Network as a volunteer or intern

Climate Justice

• Ella McDonald (ella@actonmass.org) 

Advocacy Actions

Support Mass Renews Priority Bills:

• Building Justice with Jobs ( /)

• Food Justice with Jobs ( / )

• Food Justice Frontline ( / )

Get involved in Salem’s Sunrise Movement!

• Sunrise Salem is currently looking for students who want to get involved and students interested in taking on leadership roles!

• Email Joey Wologevicz at  j_wolongevicz@salemstate.edu 

• Instagram: @sunrisemvmtsalem

• Twitter: @sunrisesalem

Gender Discrimination

• Kimberly Barboza (SSU '19), Elizabeth “Betsy” Kim, & Sarah Jurinsky
• Former Fellows at

Advocacy Actions

PEAR Program

• Your student group can get training with SSU’s , pear@salemstate.edu 

Massachusetts Healthy Youth Act ( / )

• Find more information here:  

• Contact Sec. of Ed Miguel Cardona and demand that the DoEd rescind Devos’ Title IX guidelines immediately 

Discovering Your Role in Social Change

• Deepa Iyer
• Building Movement Project ()

Resources:

• Explore the to find your role(s)

• Listen to the

• Join the free and virtual

• Follow on social media:

  • Twitter: @dviyer, @BldingMovement

  • Instagram: @deepaviyer, @BuildingMovementProject