Social Advocacy
Directly providing clothes and other resources to homeless people would likely be this scale of activism
What is local?
This student led UCLA organization focuses on addressing homelessness and food insecurity.
What is the Hunger Project?
This UCLA organization works with USAC to implement policies that improve the health and wellbeing of students.
What is the Student Wellness Commission (SWC)?
This is the California senator who founded ProtectUS.
Who is Dr. Richard Pan?
This organization focuses on making LGBT inclusive classrooms
What is GLSEN?
Advancing mental health services for low income communities in Los Angeles is an example of this scale of advocacy.
What is local advocacy?
This California bureaucratic body can implement statewide public health ordinances.
What is the CA Department of Public Health?
This public health show is dedicated to fighting misinformation and discussing social determinants of health.
What is Masked Up?
This organization advocates for the rights of undocumented people in the united states and tries to establish easier paths to citizenship
What is California Immigrant Policy Center?
This organization addresses vaccine hesitancy in communities.
What is Health Leads?
This organization, which many UAEM members are involved in, works to make COVID vaccines free at the point of delivery.
What is Free the Vaccine?
This is one of the goals of ProtectUS.
What is:
Fight public health misinformation
Promote health equity
Implement evidence-based policies
This individual started an organization to provide free legal defense to low income individuals
Who is Bet Tzedek?
Improving paid family and medical leave is an example of this scale of advocacy.
What is statewide advocacy?
Last year, UAEM members phonebanked to help get these senators elected into national office.
Who are Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock?
This is one of the projects that UAEM students have the opportunity to join.
What is:
Bill advocacy
Creating Health Policy Curriculum
Public Health Misinformation Campaign
Teens for Vaccines/GenUp Collaboration
Masked Up
Social Media/Comms
This organization was started by Stacy Abrams and played a major role in the 2020 presidential election
What is Fair Fight?
This nonprofit focuses specifically on Medicare and related issues.What is California Health Advocates?
What is California Health Advocates?
This bill in the CA legislature sought to reduce barriers to healthcare for unhoused folks in California.
What is the Street Medicine Act?
UAEM’s very own Kaylee Kang helped pass this bill into law to prevent obstruction at California vaccination sites.
What is SB 742?