Take Action: Build Your Advocacy Plan

This tool will allow you to build a pain management advocacy plan tailored to your needs and targeted to include your areas of interest.  You can chose to complete the entire plan or just portions online and download to save for future use and reference. 

Advocacy Focus
You can choose to focus on one area of advocacy, such as legislative or community outreach, or engage in the entire scope of advocacy actions that are discussed on this site.  The areas offer a step-wise approach to build a plan that shows your progress in each area.

Targeted Approach
The “Resources/Materials” section contains hundreds of facts, figures, and statistics on incidence and prevalence of pain and a number of conditions, as well as how pain disproportionately affects different populations, such as women, the elderly, and ethnic minorities.  This also is where you’ll find general information about pain as a public health issue.  You will be able to select statistics to populate fact sheets and presentations to support efforts included in your plan.

However you choose to engage in this advocacy planning tool, remember to download and save your work – it will not be saved on this site.