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Advocacy Resources
Advocacy Resources
- Child Advocacy
(for children and young adults under 21)
National Child Advocacy
Insure Kids Now!:
Insure Kids Now! is a national campaign to link the nation's 10 million uninsured children--from birth to age 18--to free and low-cost health insurance. Many families simply don't know their children are eligible.
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Local Child Advocacy
All Kids:
All Kids is a state program offering healthcare coverage to children, pregnant women and babies as well as helping to pay premiums of employer or private health insurance plans. At low or no cost, the plan covers doctor visits and dental care, well-child visits, prenatal care, specialty medical services, hospital care, emergency services, prescription drugs, and many other healthcare services. Illinois children 18 years of age and under, who meet the income requirements, are eligible for coverage. Pregnant women of any age who meet the income standards are also eligible for health insurance coverage.
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National Elder Advocacy
Eldercare Locator:
A federally run program that provides a list of local and national resources. Program goals include providing the elderly or their family/caregivers with information and resources regarding other dependable advocacy programs.
Medicare
The Official U.S. Government Site for people on Medicare.
Medicare Rights Center
The Medicare Rights Center is advantageous for those with questions about their Medicare plan, Plan D, Programs to help pay for Medicare, and people looking for ways to help change the Medicare system
American Association of Retired People (AARP)
AARP is a site covering many topics that are important not only to retirees but to families as well. The site covers the benefits and services of being a member of AARP. Also covers important issues such as pharmaceuticals, social security and current changes in the healthcare system.
Nursing Home Questionnaire
A set of questions for nursing home residents or for personal reflection of nursing care workers on the state of the care.
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Local Elder Advocacy
Center for Disability and Elder Law:
CDEL provides a full range of professional legal services. Services range from brief legal counsel to complex litigation in all of the CDEL practice areas. 1-312-908-4463
The Pro Bono Center for Disability and Elder Law:
The Pro Bono Center for Disability and Elder Law provides free legal services to low-income elderly and disabled Cook County residents.
The Illinois Department of Aging:
The Illinois Department on Aging helps older people live independently in their own homes and communities. The Illinois Department of Aging has a senior help line. This is a good source of information, including making available power of attorney forms for property and healthcare. 1-800-252-8966
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National Advocacy Programs
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services:
A federal agency that guides people through Medicare, Medicaid, State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA).
American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD):
A link to the largest nonprofit organization that covers most disabilities. The website is a guide to people with disabilities. Also informs its viewers on current political issues that affect people with disabilities. The AAPD also strives to assist its members to live rich, independent lives and educates people as to how they can be self-sufficient
Center for Medical Consumers:
A link to the largest nonprofit organization that covers most disabilities. The website is a guide to people with disabilities. Also informs its viewers on current political issues that affect people with disabilities. The AAPD also strives to assist its members to live rich, independent lives and educates people as to how they can be self-sufficient
Center for Patient Partnerships:
The Center for Patient Partnerships is an international leader in patient advocacy education. An interdisciplinary center of the Schools of Law, Medicine and Public Health, and Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Center trains professional and graduate-level students from a diversity of disciplines in the art and science of patient advocacy and patient-centered care.
Families USA:
A nonprofit, non-partisan organization that strives to achieve better healthcare. It addresses issues regarding the uninsured, prescription drugs, and Medicaid.
Healthcare Advocates, Inc:
A national advocacy group, with a free question answering service. All of their other services must be purchased
Kaiser Family Foundation:
Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., with a growing role in global health. Unlike grant-making foundations, Kaiser develops and runs its own research and communications programs, sometimes in partnership with other non-profit research organizations or major media companies. Kaiser Family foundation serves as a non-partisan source of facts, information, and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the public.
MD Choice:
"The Ultimate Information Finder" provides detailed information on medical problems and treatment possibilities.
National Patient Advocate:
National Patient Advocate Foundation (NPAF) is a national, non-profit organization that is dedicated to the mission of creating avenues of patient access through improved access to, and reimbursement for evolving therapies, therapeutic agents and devices through policy and legislative reform at the state and federal levels. Its mission is shaped by the experiences of the patients served through their companion organization, Patient Advocate Foundation
NORD’s Medical Assistance Program:
A program to the people whose incomes are higher than the Medicaid standard, but too low to afford proper medication. NORD works with pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies to lower the price of prescription drugs.
Patient Advocate Foundation:
The Patient Advocate Foundation seeks to provide avenues of access to insurance funding for evolving cancer therapies, therapeutic agents and devices deemed medically efficacious by the medical and scientific communities through legislative reform.
Patient Advocacy Resources:
A guide for patients and their families. Tells consumers what they need to know from their doctors about their health. Gives lists of questions people should ask before surgery and regular check-ups. Also explains the rights people have as patients and as human beings.
Pinnacle Care:
Offers guidance in navigating the confusing healthcare system in an effort to reach a favorable solution regarding dilemmas patients may be facing. Membership for services required.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:
Offers a thorough background on resources and information about such topics as disease, aging, care giving, and health insurance.
CarePages:
A simple-to-use service, which helps communication between family and friends during pregnancy and delivery, hospitalization or long-term care. You’ll be able to send and receive messages of support, instantly post up-to-date news, easily convey important medical information, while reducing stress and saving time and money.
MDjunction:
MDjunction is an online community to help you and your family members achieve better healthcare decisions.
My Pyramid:
A resource for those who wish to improve nutritional health.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
"CDC" offers safety tips and ways to live a healthy and productive life. Included on their webpage is a topic list for health and safety tips. They also help to monitor the spread of communicable diseases.
Uninsured People with High Risk Health Problems:
A memo to the "high risk" uninsured of Illinois
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Illinois Advocacy Programs
Campaign for Better Healthcare:
Strives to bring about a better healthcare system that is affordable and accessible. The organization does many programs at the grass-root, state and national level.
Center for Health and Poverty Law:
The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law champions economic opportunity through fair laws and policies so that people can move out of poverty permanently. 1-(312) 263-3830
Coordinated Advice and Referral Program for Legal Service:
Better known as "CARPLS". It serves as a legal aid hotline for the general public on issues including capacity, incapacity, and guardianship. 1-312-738-9494
Health and Medicine Policy Research Group:
A nonprofit organization that researches and informs people regarding changes in health policy that will affect people in Illinois. These changes can range from Medicaid and Medicare to Illinois long-term care programs.
Illinois Department of Public Health:
"IDPH" is a federally funded program that updates and alerts the public about issues that impact the health of the general public as well as issues regarding personal health. The Department's nearly 200 programs touch virtually every age, aspect, and cycle of life. A list of new updates on current issues with regard to public health standards can be found on the department’s website.
Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission:
The legal service page on the Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission website includes important information and resources on future treatment rights, mental health decisions and offers a referral list for pro-bono lawyers.
Prairie State Legal Services (Illinois):
Provides free legal services to people in need. Their mission is "to provide or coordinate the delivery of high quality legal services to low-income individuals, families and groups
The Center for Faith and Community Health Transformation:
Their mission is to catalyze community partnerships that draw on the wisdom and energy of faith communities to create the long-term social change that will eliminate health inequities and make it possible for all people to be healthy
Union Health:
UHS was the first Health Maintenance Organization in the state of Illinois. UHS is a Staff Model health maintenance organization; therefore we provide the health benefits at our facilities
Work, Welfare and Families:
An Illinois coalition working to end poverty.
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