GRASSROOTS EFFORTS

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. 

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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.