Advocacy Resources
Get Involved. Let Your Voice Be Heard.
United Spinal Association wants to make it easy for you to get involved and use your voice for change. Every advocate plays an important role in communicating what members of the spinal cord injury and paralysis community need to be successful. Across the country, people are sharing their stories and working to educate their lawmakers about the issues that affect them most. Your life experience and a passion for change can make a difference.
Being an advocate is an important step to ensuring that you and those around you have equal access and opportunity.
The Advocacy in Action guide will give you tips and tools to help you understand what advocacy is and how to become an effective advocate in your community.
The Advocacy Program Guide contains everything you need to post to social media or provide information to your chapters and advocates through newsletters or emails about United Spinal Association’s Grassroots Advocacy Network. It includes graphics, social media information and guidance, social media posts, and language for newsletters or emails that can easily be copied and pasted.
The Advocacy Etiquette Guide details the principles of advocate ethics and the rules of conduct for advocates in the United Spinal Association Grassroots Advocacy Network.
The State & Local Advocacy Menu provides chapters and advocates a selection of actionable advocacy initiatives that you can pursue in their states or municipalities. United Spinal wants to empower you to choose which issues you want to focus on in your community.
In the online advocacy curriculum, Advocacy 101: Activate Your Impact, you will be introduced to advocacy and why it matters. This module will cover the goals of the curriculum, the background and mission of United Spinal and the Grassroots Advocacy Network, the various forms and methods of advocacy, important advocacy wins through the years, the reasons for getting involved with federal, state, and local politics, and key advocacy terms and definitions.



