How to Contact Your Elected Officials:
usa.gov
Teresa Harlow wrote a terrific seven-step co-parenting guide for co-parenting and immediate action as a helpful resource for the National Parents Organization.
- Communicate with Your Co-parent
- Work on Yourself
- Mediation Keeps Decision-making in Parents’ Hands
- Collaborative and Amicable Divorce Processes
- Family therapists
- Co-parent Coaching
- Courts should be a last resort
Two examples of how significant social change came from the bottom-up and directly from the people.
Ways to get involved in your local legislation change:
- Help write the new proposed bill by partnering with the leading organization.
- Give your testimony at the state house to help get the bill passed into law and explain why you are for the bill
- Raise awareness by communicating the progress of the bill to your community
- Meet with other legislators outside of your area to help inform them of what the bill says and why they should vote to pass.
The steps of passing a bill.
- Legislator becomes aware of the community need
- Draft bill
- Propose the bill
- Obtain a name/number for the bill
- Committee review which includes public hearings for those that want to speak in favor and against the bill
- Debated in committee and possible recommendations for amending it to pass
- Voted on by committee and referred to Senate to evaluate
