AFP-Utah and Libertas
2024 Legislative Bootcamp
This free, four-hour event will provide you with detailed,
actionable information that you can use to become an effective citizen
advocate. Ready to make a difference? Come learn how to influence the political
process and hit the ground running to make a positive impact.
You must RSVP if you
would like to attend. Lunch provided with RSVP.
AGENDA:
13 JAN 2024
9:00 - 9:15 OPENING (in
the Hall of Governors on the first/bottom floor)
9:30 - 10:30 BREAKOUT
TRACK 1
- How to track bills and effectively lobby using
online tools from home
- Twenty tips on how to be an effective citizen
advocate
- Grassroots Leadership Academy - Intro to
grassroots activism
10:45 - 11:45 BREAKOUT
TRACK 2
- Grassroots Leadership Academy - The Power of
Storytelling to make a difference
- Ask a Legislator!
- Let’s pass a law! Collaborate with us to
develop a policy campaign
12:00 - 1:00 BREAKOUT
TRACK 3
- Policy preview - what AFP Utah and Libertas
Institute are working on this session
- Let’s pass a law! Collaborate with us to
develop a policy campaign
- Grassroots Leadership Academy - The ins and
outs of the legislative process — how an idea becomes a law
Both Libertas Institute and Americans for Prosperity Utah are established organizations in Utah that advocate regularly on Capitol Hill and have been the driving force behind changing over 100 laws. Come learn from our experienced team to help you better prepare to make a difference this year.
VFW ACTION CORPS
The VFW Action Corps is our national grassroots advocacy network comprised of more than 300,000 VFW members and patriotic supporters of veterans. This group stays up-to-date on the issues facing our veterans, our military and their families, standing ready to email, write, call and visit our nation’s lawmakers to make their voices heard. The VFW Action Corps is free and open to all patriotic Americans who care about the military and veterans’ communities.
Join the VFW Action Corps today and
add your voice to the thousands of veterans’ advocates making a difference
every day, and if you’re already a member of the VFW Action Corps, encourage
your friends and neighbors to join the effort!
Participants
receive:
- The VFW Action
Corps Weekly, an easy-to-read electronic newsletter that highlights the
VFW’s advocacy efforts on Capitol Hill.
- Immediate access to
a nationwide database of contact information for all elected officials, a
congressional directory.
- Regular VFW "Action
Alerts” on how to get involved when our nation’s veterans, service members
and their families need their voices heard on Capitol Hill.
The VFW Action
Corps is what gives the VFW its strength in advocating for our nation’s heroes.
Working hand-in-hand with the VFW’s National Legislative Service -- whose
office is in eye-shot of the Capitol dome in Washington -- members of the VFW
Action Corps are armed with all of the tools and information they need to help
the VFW in its mission to support our nation’s veterans.
Our
Recent Legislative Victories Include:
- Implementation of
VA’s maternity care coordination program to equip community care providers
with training and support for the unique pregnancy and postpartum needs of
women veterans.
- Passage of the PAWS
for Veterans Therapy Act which will establish a pilot program on dog
training therapy for veterans diagnosed with PTSD and require VA to
provide service dogs for those veterans, including veterinary insurance.
- Inclusion of
bladder cancer, hypothyroidism, and parkinsonism to the list of Department
of Veterans Affairs presumptive conditions for herbicide exposure.
- Passage of the
Deborah Sampson Act, which will remove the barriers to health care
impacting women veterans.
- Elimination of the 12-year limit on using Veteran Readiness
and Employment (VR&E) benefits.
