[Counselor_Educ] CRITICAL Legislative Advocacy Alert / TIME SENSITIVE/ Medicare Bill, S. 1830 (the Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act)

[Bhat, Christine]

Please make a call or write a letter/email as requested below by Dr. Vicki Kress, past OCA President.

From: Ohcounsed [mailto:ohcounsed-bounces at lists.osu.edu] On Behalf Of Victoria Kress
Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 9:14 AM
To: Counselor Educators in the state of Ohio <ohcounsed at lists.osu.edu>; admin at ohiocounseling.org
Subject: [Ohcounsed] CRITICAL Legislative Advocacy Alert / TIME SENSITIVE/ Medicare Bill, S. 1830 (the Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act)

Counselors,

We need your help NOW!

We all know it is time counselors become approved medicare providers and legislation which will allow this is gaining momentum. We need you to call Senator Portman's office today, Tuesday, and let him know that you want him to co-sponsor Medicare Bill, S. 1830 (the Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act).

There will be a meeting tomorrow with Senator Portman ......himself, not an aid!!

It will only take a couple minutes to engage in this advocacy effort - we NEED your help to see this through! It is very rare to get a meeting with a federal senator!

His office number is: 202-224-3353<tel:202-224-3353>.

If you can't call, please send an email through this site:

https://www.portman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact-form

Attached here <http://www.ohiocounseling.org/resources/Documents/Medicare%20Support%20Letter%20Portman%202015.docx> you will find a letter OCA sent to his office that you can use to guide your thinking around your email/phone message/conversation.

YOU CAN SIMPLY CUT AND PASTE AND USE THIS LETTER IF YOU NEED TO!  This task will only take you two minutes!

If you get his voicemail, please just leave a message- this is fine!

We need an estimate of how many people have reached out to him via a call or email.
Once you have followed up on this, please check this box so we have an estimate of the contacts:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3CTVSJJ

Even if you have previously done this, please do it again!

Thank you for all that you do to advocate for our profession! Let's all join together to advocate for this very important legislation!


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-Victoria Kress Ph.D., LPCC-S (OH), NCC

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