In the Face of Pain^® Advocacy Toolkit provides you with a series of tools to advocate for people in pain.  You can learn the basics of how to share messages about the rights of people in pain through your community, your local media outlets, your elected officials, and your professional organizations. 

You also have access to current data and statistics about condition or population-specific pain that can be used to support your advocacy efforts.  Lastly, you have the capability to build a personalized advocacy plan, tailored to your specific interests.

You can review modules on how to advocate:

• Through Professional Organizations
• Through Community Organizations
• Through the Media
• Through Legislative Bodies
• Through Research
• For Access to Optimal and Affordable Care

These sections provide basic information, pain-related information, advocacy action tools, sample materials, and additional resources.

This toolkit is also a rich source of data that you can use to find general information about disease and condition-specific pain; detailed, sourced, and current facts and figures; and resources for further information.  Examples of the information includes Amputee-Phantom Limb Pain, Cancer Pain, Diabetic Neuropathy Pain, Women and Pain, Ethnicity and Pain, and Caregivers and Pain, just to name a few.

You also have the opportunity to create your own advocacy plan based on how you choose to advocate, whether it’s through legislative action, media, or community outreach, tailored to your area of interest.  As you experience this tool, you will be able to download statistics and useful information to support your advocacy work.

Lastly, you will be able to access current Pain Management News through the Partners Against Pain^® Web site – a great way to stay current as you become educated on issues surrounding appropriate treatment of pain.