Raising Women's Voices
is a project of the Avery Institute for Social Change, the MergerWatch Project of Community Catalyst, the National Women's Health Network.
Table of Contents (click links to download PDF documents or PowerPoint files)
1. An Introduction to Women's Health and Health Reform a. A History of Health Care Reform and the Women's Health Movement (link to PDF)
b. What's At Stake for Women (link to PowerPoint)
c. Women's Health and Health Reform Overview (link to PowerPoint)
2. A Women's Vision for Health Care Reform a. RWV Women's Vision for Quality, Affordable, Health Care for All (link to PDF) b. National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health - Statement on Health Care for All (link to PDF)
3. Engaging Grassroots Women a. Conducting a Small Group Discussion in Your Community (link to PDF)
b. RWV Listens to Women - What We Learned (link to PDF)
c. How to Raise Women's Voices in Your Community - Action Strategies! (link to PDF)
d. Sample Event (link to PDF)
4. Community Organizing Toolkit - Strategies and Tactics to Make Change (link to PDF)
5. Sample State Health Reform Efforts a. Massachusetts i. Forging Consensus: The Path to Health Reform in Massachusetts (link to PDF)
ii. Women and Health Care Reform in Massachusetts: Policy Brief (link to PDF)
iii. Community Catalyst: MA Health Reform 18 Months Later (link to PDF) b. New Mexico i. Health Care For All New Mexico: Principles (link to PDF)
ii. Health Action New Mexico: Legislative Trends (link to PDF)
iii. Voices of the Health Care Crisis from Rural New Mexico (link to PDF) c. New York i. Health Care For All New York: Fact Sheet on Women's Health (link to PDF)
ii. Community Service Society: Women's Concerns in NY's Health Reform Conversation (link to PDF)
iii. Choices in Childbirth: New York City Hospitals Cesarean Section Rates 2000-2005 (link to PDF) d. California i. Women's Working Group of CA - Health Care Reform Principles (link to PDF)
6. Resources - Look here for glossaries and fact sheets about health care reform and women's issues! a. The Commonwealth Fund: Health Policy Reform - Beyond the 2008 Elections (link to PDF) b. The Kaiser Family Foundation: Women's Health Policy Facts (link to PDF) c. Health Care Reform: Voices of Faith in Election 2008 (link to PDF) d. Families USA: 2008 Glossary of Health Care Terms (link to PDF) e. Pursuing A New Vision for Health Care: A Human Rights Assessment of the
Presidential Candidates' Proposals (link to PDF) f. National Women's Law Center: Women and Health Coverage: The Affordability Gap (link to PDF) g. NHeLP: Summary of State Law Requirements Addressing Language Needs in
Women's Health Care (link to PDF) h. NHeLP: Over the Counter or Out of Reach? A Report on Evolving State Medicaid Policies for Covering Emergency Contraception (link to PDF) i. NHeLP: State Medicaid Coverage of Emergency Contraception
as an Over-the-Counter Drug (link to PDF) j. Community Catalyst: Approaches and Strategies for Achieving
Universal Health Care (link to PowerPoint) k. Community Catalyst: Guide to Protecting Consumers Under an Individual Mandate (link to PDF)