Advocating Ideas for Students, Classrooms, and Schools
Write Letters to Government Officials: Contact your Congresspeople and Senators, urging them to support legislation that aids homeless people and children. Organize a letter writing campaign among your classmates or within your school.
Respond to NCH's Legislative Alerts: These alerts give the most up-to-date information about what is happening in Congress affecting homelessness, and what you can do about it. They are online at www.nationalhomeless.org.
Attend Neighborhood and Public Meetings: Speak up in favor of low-income housing, group homes, shelters, and homelessness prevention programs.
Encourage Homeless People, Agency Volunteers and Staff to Write Government Officials: They should ask them to give the issue of homelessness top priority and to find humane solutions to the problem. Use opportunities like special holiday meals to do this; provide paper, pens, stamped envelopes, and sample messages at every meeting and event.
Resource: National Coalition for Homelessness
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