The Five Big Ideas: AAHSA’s Policy Agenda to Advance Quality First
The five big ideas are based on the accumulated beliefs, experiences and successes of members who are developing innovative programs that have broad policy implications.

AAHSA Advocacy and Issues Web Site
Contact your legislators, learn about AAHSA's talking points, issue briefs, legislative action and analysis, public policy objectives, and other advocacy tools.

Contact Congress
Visit Contact Congress, AAHSA's legislative action center, and find tools you can use to contact federal, state and local officeholders about issues affecting aging services.

10 Reasons to Lobby for your Cause
This document, published by the Independent Sector, discusses ten reasons why not-for-profit organizations should lobby for their causes.

One Voice Can Make a Difference. Yours!
Your involvement, as a constituent, aging-services provider and as an active member of your community, is essential to making legislators care enough about an issue. AAHSA's Congress to Home provides a plan for hosting Congressional visits, and more importantly, explaining to your representative the consequences their legislative action - or inaction - has on your facility.

Vision + Community = Power
Aging-services providers can be the catalysts for positive change in the way the nation serves elders.

Advocacy Department
Persistence pays; relationship-building leads to quality improvement grant.

AAHSA Advocacy and Public Relations Tools
One voice can make a difference, especially when heard by the right person. Use these resource materials from AAHSA to educate legislators and the media about issues affecting the field of aging services.

Providers Have Powerful Political Potential
Your involvement, as a constituent and active member of your community, is essential to making legislators care enough about the issues affecting your organization, listen to arguments and potentially become a champion for the people you serve.