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Advocacy & Policy

Advocacy and policy development are crucial to communities and are often difficult issues to tackle. It is important to understand how policies affect you and your community, and how they become policies in the first place. Communities must learn to be advocates.

Links

Health Policy Guide The health policy guide website contains information on many different public health policy issues. It has ideas on how to approach policies and examples from other communities.

Files

Guide to Tobacco Policy Success

Letter Writing Tips

Media Advocacy

North Carolina Policy Guide

Outreach to Local Officials

Political Assessment