Public Health Medicaid Advocacy

Georgia Voices for Medicaid:
Building a Constituency for Medicaid across Georgia

The Partnership: Georgians for a Healthy Future (GHF) organizes community forums and workshops across Georgia to foster substantive local dialogue about health issues. We convene local leaders, medical providers, stakeholders, and consumers to discuss the most important health care issues facing them in their communities. With a grant from GCDD, GHF has utilized the socio-ecological model of behavior change, which emphasizes the interdependence of individual health behaviors and the social and policy environments in which a person lives to plan, design, and implement an in-person training curriculum in four quadrants of the state educating on the importance of Medicaid, the coverage game and its importance specifically to people with disabilities, as well as advocacy opportunities for people who are newly passionate about Medicaid. A multi-media curriculum has also been broadly disseminated around the state to ensure all communities have the tools necessary to advocate on the issues connected to Medicaid. This initiative is named Georgia Voices for Medicaid: Building a Constituency for Medicaid across Georgia

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Our Partner: Since their founding in 2008, Georgians for a Healthy Future (GHF) has provided substantive health policy information to community leaders and organizations, individual consumers, and advocates throughout the state; conducted seminars to equip consumers with the tools to become strong advocates; successfully injected the consumer perspective into hundreds of health care stories in the media; and engaged with policymakers to spark policy change for a healthier Georgia. Their three-pronged approach includes:

  1. outreach, education & engagement with consumers and communities;
  2. building and mobilizing coalitions; and
  3. public policy advocacy

Visit GHF online at their website.