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Educating Policymakers About Safe Schools/Healthy Students

Educating Policymakers About Safe Schools/Healthy Students

When it comes to communicating with key audiences, have you considered reaching out to your Federal, State, or local policymakers about the successes you’ve experienced with Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS)?

This issue of the Communication Coach Online will prepare grantees to educate policymakers, from their State capitals to the Nation’s Capital, about the value of the national SS/HS Initiative. You’ll learn more about what to expect from a meeting with your elected officials or their staff and how you can prepare to educate this audience about SS/HS.

Your communication specialist is also available to help you. Just email your communication specialist or call us at 1–800–790–2647 to let us know how we can help.

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Sharing Your SS/HS Successes: Educating Policymakers

We may not always think of our local, State, or Federal legislators as members of our SS/HS audience, but they can be critical to your initiative’s sustainability—and reaching them is easier than you think! This article will help you answer key questions relating to the why, who, where, what, when,and how of educating your policymakers about your SS/HS initiative. Read more

Spotlight on Success

Educating Policymakers: SS/HS Indiana Affinity Group

(from left to right) Indiana site Project Directors Misty Hollis, Barry Humble, Cynthia Smith, and Lisa Lutgring

Indiana sites’ PDs:
Misty Hollis, Barry Humble,
Cynthia Smith, and Lisa Lutgring

In Indiana, four SS/HS sites are working together to educate their State’s policymakers about the benefits of the partnership and its impact on their communities and the State. Read more

Weblog: Our Turn

In my experience as a SS/HS Project Director, I’ve found that there’s strength in numbers when it comes to educating policymakers. Collaborating with three other SS/HS sites in my State has helped us focus not only on our individual successes...

Communication Coach Online

The Communication Coach Online is a quarterly electronic magazine, produced by the Communication & Social Marketing (CSM) Center, offering practical communication training, resources, and best practices to SS/HS grantees nationwide.

The CSM Center supports the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) vision of "a life in the community for everyone." The team is a partnership of ICF Macro, The Gallup Organization, and Kauffman & Associates, Inc.

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