Advocacy Resources

CDF is excited to provide you with these action resources to enhance your National Observance of Children's Sabbaths^® Celebration. The following resources provide outreach and advocacy activities to help members of your faith community respond to the urgent needs of children and to put their faith into action.

Take Action: Health Coverage for All Children Campaign

With more than eight million children still without health coverage, now is the time for people of faith to engage in the prophetic work to guarantee comprehensive health coverage for all children and pregant women!

• Schedule a Visit with Your Congressional Member
  Face-to-face visits are the most effective way to influence your elected officials.  Organize your faith community to schedule a home office visit to speak about children's health coverage.
  • Instructions on how to meet with your elected officials and CDF's principles for children's health coverage. (.pdf)
  • Download state specific fact sheets on children's health coverage.
• Invite Your Elected Officials to Attend Your Children's Sabbath Celebration
  Let your lawmakers know that your faith community stands for children and invite them to join you.
  • Sample Invitation to Elected Officials (.doc)

Raise Awareness Through the Media

Alert the local media to your upcoming Children's Sabbaths Celebration. Adapt this sample press release (.doc) to reflect the time, place, and theme of your upcoming Children's Sabbaths Celebration.

• Submit an Opinion or Editorial Piece to Your Local Newspaper
  Raise awareness in your community about the nearly nine million children in America without health coverage.
  • Instructions and talking points for writing an op-ed.

Children's Sabbaths Celebration Events

Don't see your Children's Sabbaths celebration on the map? Let us know what you are planning!