Welcome to the Ensuring Our Healthy Future Campaign Page!

SEARAC and its community partners have embarked on a collective effort to shape health care reform implementation plans in five states. The overall goal of the Ensuring Our Healthy Future Campaign, is to ensure that community members have a seat at the decision-making table during implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Implementation of the ACA presents an enormous opportunity for the Southeast Asian American (SEAA) community to participate and support the development of more socially just, accountable, and responsive health policies that will ensure that all communities have greater access to quality health care.

The Ensuring Our Healthy Future Campaign focuses on two main goals: (1) engaging local stakeholders in California, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania to ensure that Southeast Asian American voices are included during implementation of the ACA; and (2) informing Southeast Asian American communities about the provisions that will affect the quality and access of their health care.

Page Contents

• Campaign Partners
• Community Spotlight
• Share Your Story
• Take Action - Contact Your Member of Congress!
• Health Policy Resource Hub

Campaign Partners

California
Stone Soup Fresno	Khmer Girls in Action	Members of the Hmong Health Collaborative	Lao Family Community of Stockton	Hmong Women's Heritage Association
Merced Lao Family Community, Inc.	Fresno Center for New Americans	Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries	Healthy House Within a MATCH Coalition

Louisiana	Maryland	Minnesota		Pennsylvania
Vietnamese Young Leaders Association of New Orleans	Maryland Vietnamese Mutual Association	CAPI	Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota	Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia

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 Community Spotlight

Throughout the Ensuring Our Healthy Future Campaign launch, we will highlight each of our partners and their hopes for their community and the Affordable Care Act on our blog. SEARAC's community organizer, Nenick Vu, interviewed Stone Soup's executive director, MaiKa Yang, for our first post. Read more here.

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Share Your Story

Have a health care story to share? Can you talk about what it’s like to be without health care insurance? The Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) is collecting health care stories of Southeast Asian Americans to illustrate the health care needs of community members, and to illustrate how the Affordable Care Act is making a difference in real people’s lives. We will use your stories to educate others about health care needs in the Southeast Asian American community, in meetings with elected officials, and with the media. Send us your picture and tell us your story! Details on how to do that are here.

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Take Action! - Contact Your Member of Congress

March 23, 2011 marks the one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In its first year, the ACA has already made significant strides to improve the health and well-being of our country. Unfortunately, provisions in H.R. 1 target the ACA for elimination and defund key protections that will negatively impact the lives of hardworking families. Send a letter to your Representative and tell him or her to protect funding for the Affordable Care Act here.

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Access the Health Policy Resource Hub

The Health Policy Hub contains information and resources to get you acquainted with the Affordable Care Act. Here you will find updated policy briefs, reports, factsheets, and other resources to help you better understand the Affordable Care Act and other health care related policies. Access it here.

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