Related:

Legislative Alerts Increase to Title V in President's FY2011 Budget Health Reform Update & Preparing to Advocate for Title V MCH Programs in 2010 FY2010 MCH Appropriations Update New Sections for Title V Proposed Support Home Visiting and Public Health Investment Fund Provisions in Health Reform Alert on Health Reform Legislation AMCHP Update on Transition and Health Reform President Releases Proposed Budget Details Support an Increase in MCH Funding

Press Releases 2009 AMCHP Mourns Loss of Dr. John C. MacQueen (9/23/2009) New Section for Title V in Senate Finance Committee Health Reform Legislation (9/16/2009) 2008 State-Local Teams Chosen to Participate in Partnership to Eliminate Disparities in Infant Mortality (12/15/2008)

Just as you are a voice for the mothers, children and families you serve in your state, AMCHP is your voice in our nation’s capitol. Together, we can actively advocate for public policies that strengthen our public health system, expand health insurance coverage to mothers and children, and provide resources for states to better serve MCH populations, including children with special health care needs.  

• AMCHP Advocacy Training calls-Missed the calls? You can see the archived presentations on the AMCHP Advocacy Training page
• President's FY2011 Budget Maternal and Child Health Funding Highlights (02/05/2010)
• President proposes $11 million increase to Title V MCH Block Grant (02/01/2010)
• AMCHP Letter to HHS on New Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative and Office of Adolescent Health (1/07/2010)
• Health funding highlights in FY2010 Omnibus Appropriation Bill(12/14/09)
• Senate Finance Committee Legislative Language (10/21/09)
• Senate Finance Committee's America's Healthy Future Act 
               (entire document)
• Senate Finance Committee's America's Healthy Future Act
               (section on Title V)
• Senate proposal to form Office of Adolescent Health
  
• House/Senate FY2010 Maternal and Child Health Funding Highlights
• President Obama proclaims October 5, 2009 as Child Health Day. To see the full-text of the president’s proclamation, please click here.            
• The Stillbirth and SUID Prevention, Education, and Awareness Act
• Sample Title V MCH Block Grant Advocacy Letter
• HR 2205 Education Begins at Home Act
• HR 1256 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act
• AMCHP's Publication: The Power of Prevention for Mothers and Children
• AMCHP's testimony before House Appropriations, Labor HHS SubCommittee on Title V MCH Block Grant 
• Support letter for Senate Finance Committee policy options to reduce infant mortality.

For more information please contact AMCHP's Government and Public Policy Team: Brent Ewig, Joshua Brown or Michelle Alletto via e-mail or call (202) 775-0436.