Public Policy Action Network:
Past Action Alerts

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Help House Champions Secure Needed Funds for Important Suicide Prevention Programs
(3/06)

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Call your Senator’s office NOW to VOTE YES on the Specter-Harkin Budget Amendment! (3/06)

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Action Alert: Ensure that Youth are Not Treated as Adult Sex Offenders (2/06)

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Action Alert: Action Needed to Restore Proposed Cuts to Medicaid (2/06)

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Action Alert: Support the McCain Amendment Calling for Prohibition on Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment of U.S. Detainees (10/05)

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Action Alert: Overcoming Barriers to Advocacy: The Education Advocacy Trust (10/05)

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Action Alert: Protect Psychological Research at NIH (6/05)

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Action Alert: Support Needed in Medicaid Budget Battle (4/05)

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Action Alert: Request for Assistance in Placing Op-Ed Letter in Local Newspapers on the "Mental Health Needs of Returning Military Personnel" (3/05)

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Action Alert: Take Action to Protect Scientific Integrity (9/04)

On Wednesday, September 8, Congress is expected to debate the FY 2005 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations bill, which funds the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Last year, an amendment by Patrick Toomey (R-PA) offered to the bill would have rescinded funds from five specific grants that had been reviewed for their scientific merit and approved for funding by the NIH. The majority of these grants examined different aspects of sexual development and behavior and sought to inform public health interventions for HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. The amendment failed by only two votes.

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Action Alert: Your Advocacy Needed on Discrimination Legislation (7/04)

SEEKING ADVOCATES ON LESBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL POLICY ISSUES

As the 108th Congress winds down and the election draws near, lesbian, gay, and bisexual policy issues are heating up. We are asking for you, as a psychologist and citizen, to call your Senators on two issues -- hate crimes and the constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

Read the APA Briefing Sheet on Same-Sex Families and Relationships

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Action Alert: Increase Child Mental Health Services (5/04)

Senate Passes Family Opportunity Act – Urge House to Do the Same

Please contact your Representative and urge him/her to cosponsor and push for passage of the Family Opportunity Act of 2003 (S. 622/H.R. 1811). This legislation would help thousands of middle-income families access health and mental health services for their children with severe mental or physical disabilities. Last week, the Senate passed an amended version of the bill offered by Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Edward Kennedy (D-MA). Our goal is to support House passage of the Senate-passed Family Opportunity Act (FOA), S. 622.

More background and legislative history of the Family Opportunity Act available here .

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Action Alert: APA Member Action Needed on Children's Mental Health Workforce Shortage Bill (1/04)

 A vital children's mental health workforce bill, the Child Healthcare Crisis Relief Act, is gaining support in the House and Senate. H.R. 1359, sponsored by Reps. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) now has 43 cosponsors, and the Senate bill, S. 1223, sponsored by Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Susan Collins (R-ME), now has five cosponsors, yet both bills require much more bipartisan support to begin moving through House and Senate committees. APA members are asked to contact their two Senators and House Representative to request cosponsorship of the Child Healthcare Crisis Relief Act.

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Action Alert: Urge Your Representative to Pass Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act (7/04)
This legislation includes the Campus Care and Counseling Act, introduced earlier in the Senate by Senators Reed, DeWine, Smith and Clinton

Information Alert: Support Mental and Behavioral Health Services on College Campuses (10/03)

Learn more about the Campus Care and Counseling Act

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