Organizational Advocacy

Here you'll find tools you and your organization can use to:

Send formal Organizational Support for the Real Emergency Access for Aging and Disability Inclusion in Disasters Act (REAADI) and Disaster Relief Medicaid Act (DRMA)
Action alerts for you to mobilize your community to reach out to elected representatives
Press Conference Template to formally take a position and share with your local, regional, and national media

Send Organizational Support

Organizations can formally express support for REAADI and DRMA and demonstrate to congressional representatives the bills have support from diverse communities throughout the country.

Join our growing list of organizational supporters:

Email Priya Penner at priya@disasterstrategies.org with your organization’s name and a short statement indicating support for REAADI and DRMA,

Or, organizations can use the sample script template to express support:

Send an email, letter, or leave a voicemail for your Congresspeople to sign onto REAADI and DRMA
Senate Support REAADI & DRMA:
- Template to Senator Casey to support R.E.A.A.D.I. and D.R.M.A.
- Send your support to Senator Casey’s office, emails can be sent Michael_Gamel-McCormick@aging.senate.gov or Josh_Dubensky@aging.senate.gov
House Support for REAADI:
- You can use a template to send your support to Congressman Langevin for REAADI.
- Emails can be sent to Katherine Lee at Katherine.Lee@mail.house.gov
House support for DRMA:
- Template to send your support to Congresswoman Shalala for DRMA in the House.
- Emails can be sent to Carla McGarvey at Carla.McGarvey@mail.house.gov

Action Alert Templates:

Short Action Alert to contact representatives
Long Action Alert to contact representatives

Make a statement:

Use our Press Release Template

We invite your organization to prepare a Press Release for the introduction of the Real Emergency Access for Aging and Disability Inclusion for Disasters Act and the Disaster Relief Medicaid Act.

Simply, copy, paste, and add your logos and information.

REAADI for Disasters Act & DRMA