Give A Care Indy » vote http://blog.indyhealthnet.org Support in Health Care & Social Services Thu, 06 Feb 2020 14:00:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Our Petition Drive was a success! Make that voice even stronger. http://blog.indyhealthnet.org/petition-drive-success-voice-stronger?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=petition-drive-success-voice-stronger http://blog.indyhealthnet.org/petition-drive-success-voice-stronger#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 13:30:17 +0000 giveacareindy http://blog.indyhealthnet.org/?p=2410 Over the past six weeks, staff at each of our health centers, have been working hard at a petition drive to gain as many signatures of support from staff, patients and the community for the Health Center Program. It is vital to maintain and very important to try and increase the amount of federal funding for community health centers throughout the United States. The petition was also in support of no cuts in Medicaid funding, a resource that covers many of our patients!

We collected 3,287 petition signatures!

And now, we are asking for you to help our voices become even stronger! These petitions are being delivered to a few legislators to encourage them to take notice and educate themselves on a topic of need and interest to many when it comes to community health centers!!

To make the petition drive fun for staff and – to provide an incentive for them to go the extra mile to get signatures of support – the team with the most signatures won a pizza party for their entire Health Center staff! That winning team was….drum roll please….

Southwest Health & Dental Center!!!

So now it is YOUR turn… GET UP, GET OUT, AND VOTE!! The primary election is important and a way for you to have a voice and make yourself heard!! Encourage your co-workers to vote, or your friends, or family….maybe your employer would consider hosting a pizza party if 100% of staff voted on May 8th? Never hurts to ask!

And, who doesn’t like a free lunch simply for doing something good?

Wondering – WHERE EXACTLY DO I GO TO VOTE?
Click here to find the polling place nearest you.

P.S. If you don’t vote, then this guy may yell at you…

Shout

flickr photo by Adam Merton

]]> http://blog.indyhealthnet.org/petition-drive-success-voice-stronger/feed 0 GO VOTE! Indiana Presidential Primary in 2 WEEKS! http://blog.indyhealthnet.org/vote-indiana-presidential-primary-2-weeks?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vote-indiana-presidential-primary-2-weeks http://blog.indyhealthnet.org/vote-indiana-presidential-primary-2-weeks#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:44:02 +0000 giveacareindy http://blog.indyhealthnet.org/?p=2378 So, we had a post about voting a couple weeks ago.  That post talked about what it means to voting in the long run.  A quick summary – “Just because you feel like your voice isn’t being heard during elections, your voice becomes louder in the long run if you DO get out and vote.”

Today is another call out to GET OUT AND VOTE in the Indiana Primary in two weeks.  Tuesday, May 8th is the date.  If you would like to add it to your Google Calendar, then click the “Google Calendar” button below!

Our health center staff have been spending the last month collecting signatures for our petition to show support for the Health Centers program!  But, another way to make those voices even more effective would be if a congressional staff person is looking through the names and sees names of VOTERS!

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flickr photo by KOMUnews

If they see voters’ names on a petition, then they know that there could be the potential to lose votes in the next election if they don’t support health centers!

A quick heads up…this won’t be our last reminder!  But hey, voting is a RIGHT that should be expressed.

Invite a coworker to vote with you.  Or a family member.  Or a friend.  Make it a good experience for everyone, so that it doesn’t feel like a chore!

Have a great Tuesday! See you at the polls in TWO WEEKS!

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