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ROOT CAUSE: PUBLIC POLICIES
- Forceful way to make change
- Controls funding
- Reflects and shapes sentiment of voting community
- Determines laws and policies
- Impacts quality of life
- Sets direction for community
- Prioritization
- Policy makers should know community issues
- All aspects of health care are impacted
- Impact of the volume of the voice
- Focus on leadership and advocacy
STAKEHOLDERS
- Taxpayers
- Chamber of Commerce
- Providers
- Consumers/ Patients
- Families
- Voters
- Politicians
- General citizenry
- Non-profits
- City/ county
- Downtown alliance
- Austin Resource for Homeless
- Faith community (Austin Interfaith, Austin Metropolitan Ministries, Samaritan Center)
- Potential HHS champions
- For-profit / business community
- Education
- Boards and commissions of policymakers
- Children
- Media
- Criminal justice system
- Neighborhood associations
- State/Federal agencies
Next Steps:
- Broaden what we are looking at beyond Travis County; think regionally.
- Establish an endowment (beginning with tobacco fund)
- Education/ strong voice around advocating for HHS budget money
- Establish a small core group
- Educate organizations to be effective advocates
- Collaboration yields needs for mechanisms to distribute dollars (community needs assessment)
- Determine policies which are barriers to access
- How do we impact staff decision-making?
- Need to focus on an insured population, with the "money" in the hand of the consumer competition is okay and people get what they need. Focus on consumer having the coverage instead of channeling money through the agency.
- Root causes for individuals, verses agency specific root causes
- Insure customer/consumer input
- Re-educate community about new policies (remove fear factor)
- Determine how to get community to collaborate around advocacy efforts
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