Using the "Contact Congress" form above you can enter your zip code and find out who your federal representatives are. You will be able to write to them either individually or all at the same time.
We have information that federal level legislators have deleted their email unread. Please send snail-mail or faxes to legislators, as often as you can.
Try these websites for federal legislative information and addresses:
To find your state representatives, try http://congress.org. Click on "Elected Officials" and then on your state in the map of the USA. If you send email to a lot of people from that website, remember to un-check the box asking for copies sent to your email in-box, otherwise you may be overwhelmed with copies of your own email!
Also, for finding official government websites in your state, try: Yahoo's State Listings. Click on your state, then on "government". Find your legislature's website(s) and get to know everything about it. Learn how to find pending bills. Find out who your state representatives are and study their websites.
Write to your legislators about pending legislation. Tell them how you feel about the child welfare system. If you're experiencing a current problem, let them know that you need their help. Legislators are often able to help their constituents in ways we might not know of.
Suggestion: Send your legislators a copy of A Call For Change. Write your legislators a message about how you feel about child welfare services, then add A Call For Change to the bottom of the message.
Advice From An Activist:
A friend of mine gave me some advice during my own letter writing -- "make sure you put the most important information at the beginning of any letter and again at the end because legislators will not go thru and read the entire letter, and if by chance they do--they'll only remember the beginning and the end".
He said most of the time--these types of letters are never read, addressed and are tossed aside. He said you have to literally shove things down their throats and hound and hound and hound.
Yet again, he is long winded too so.....we all have much to say and it's hard to be brief on issues like these. I am very long-winded too because I write from my heart-thats where my best comes from. -- Candice
