Reaching out to lawmakers is a meaningful way to use your professional expertise to make a difference. Here are easy opportunities to learn more about advocacy and engage.
Learn about APA advocacy priorities and issues
APA’s 2024 advocacy priorities, grounded in science and rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusion, guide the work of APA Services to advocate for policies that promote and advance psychology throughout the year. You can learn more about the wide range of issues that these priorities guide and inform on our advocacy issues page.
Visit our updated Psychologist’s Guide to Advocacy to learn more about how to contact your federal and state policymakers on issues important to you
Federal and certain state lawmakers are already debating important funding and policy questions that impact psychology and society. Use the guide to plan your actions.
Check out our current action alerts
- APA members are urging Congress to support the Youth Mental Health Research Act (H.R. 5976/S. 3060). It would authorize a new research initiative centered on youth mental health housed within the National Institutes of Health. Learn more and ask your officials to cosponsor the billopens in new window.
- Ask your members of Congressopens in new window to cosponsor three APA Services federal funding requests, which would increase access to mental health services and strengthen the psychology workforce.
Register for upcoming advocacy alerts
Through the Psychology Advocacy Network, important opportunities are shared for you to advocate for, including funding for key research, educational and workforce programs, and elevate issues important to you and your communities as they emerge. Check the “action alerts” box on that page to sign up for the Psychology Advocacy Network.
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