Advocating for Young Children and Families: As Easy As 1-2-3

Submitting a Letter to Your Representatives

Using CEC’s Legislative Action Center

If you’re a member (or social media follower) of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) and/or its related divisions, you’ve probably received emails, seen Facebook posts or Tweets about submitting a letter to your representatives. These “action alert” messages are about an educational issue or an upcoming budget/funding decision that directly affect the children and families we serve. 


From CEC: 

"Budgets are tight and Congress is under extreme pressure to keep funding to a minimum. Tell Congress that education cannot absorb any more funding cuts!"

If you’ve ever felt too busy to submit a letter, or thought to yourself, “How do I do that? I don’t know what to write!”—we want to make sure you know that it is incredibly easy to do.

We’ve broken the process down into just three steps and included screenshots, just to illustrate our point about how easy it is. It literally takes just a couple of minutes to do.

Go to http://cqrcengage.com/cek/home , or simply do a Google search on “CEC Action Center”.

Below is the home page of CEC’s Legislative Action Center:

1.    Click on “TAKE ACTION”

 

2.  Complete the required fields above with your information. You may choose to opt-in to future emails or not, and in our experiences the emails were not excessive. Based on the address you enter, CEC's sytem "finds" your officials for you so that your letter is directed to the appropriate persons/offices.

The text for the letter is already provided for you! See below.

You can submit the letter above as-is, or personalize as you see fit (e.g., write about your experience as an educator, parent, etc; write about how educational services promoted positive outcomes for a child or student in your care, etc.). If you’re short on time, sending the letter as-is is just as powerful.

3.  Click SUBMIT.

You should receive a confirmation on the next page (see below). 

That’s it! Just three simple steps.

And did we mention how EASY it is?

Please send your letters TODAY! 

Notes:

We also recommend that you subscribe to the CEC Action Alerts (see upper right on first and last image), or follow @CECadvocacy on Twitter so that you can stay informed.

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All images (screenshots) are from the CEC Legislative Action Center website.