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Protect Vital Services: Take Action with Easterseals

Protect vital services like Medicaid, SCSEP, and Head Start. Easterseals Action gives you the tools to engage policymakers and mobilize your community effectively.

Millions of people with disabilities, older adults, veterans, and their families rely on Medicaid, Head Start, accessible transportation, and employment programs for older Americans. These critical services are under threat, and our unified voice is more important than ever.

Talk to Your Legislators

In thousands of communities across America, we’re working for children and adults with disabilities, older adults, veterans, and their families. We need your help. Below is our latest action alert. Your participation ensures legislators know about crucial needs in your community. 

Easterseals Action: Help Us Make Meaningful Change

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Join Easterseals Action by filling out the form below and receive your advocacy toolkit. Let your legislators know how important critical services and programs are for people with disabilities and communities across America. Learn more about the issues Easterseals supports. 

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As a disabled writer, commissioner, filmmaker, and spoken word artist, advocacy is woven into the very fabric of my life. Storytelling, like advocacy, can be uncomfortable because it challenges the status quo. However, speaking your truth is powerful.

— Andrea Jennings

Join and Get Your Advocacy Storytelling Toolkit

Easterseals advocates engage on the local, state, and federal level to bring about change, and ensure people can access the resources and help they need to lead full lives. 

Why it Matters

Advocacy starts local.
Sharing your story helps bring policy issues to life.

Change takes action.
We need strong voices at every level of government.

Relationships matter.
Connecting with policymakers protects vital programs.

Consistency works. 
Consistent, compelling advocacy keeps essential services safe from cuts.

Our Advocacy Storytelling Toolkit is a powerful resource for advocates and allies. It equips you with the language and strategies needed to engage policymakers and mobilize your community effectively. Sign up today using the form below. 

Join Easterseals Action to Receive Your Toolkit

After filling out the form, head over to Easterseals Action to learn more about how Easterseals is supporting better healthcare, education, transportation, and more. 

How These Essential Services Change Lives