The real title of this post should be "The Faces of Children Affected by Unjust Budget and Policy Choices."Anna is the daughter of our neighbors Amy Sage and Bill LaCroix. Anna was born deaf and has gone through two surgeries for cochlear implants. She is what we call a Bright Light. To see the first blog talking about Anna and her cochlear implant click
Anna LaCroix and her chicks, hearing is believing.
To see more blogs about Anna and her community click Anna LaCroix and more.
This week Anna, Amy and Bill are in Washington, DC on a trip to a DC health clinic, in meetings with administration officials and congressional leaders and will join others in talking about the struggles they face in accessing quality affordable health care.
Amy was invited to go to Washington,. D.C. by the Children's Defense Fund to tell their story of Anna's health care needs and the difficulty they face with insurance and limited income. She will make brief presentations to the group of celebrities listed below and then the three groups of senators on Thursday.
See the agenda and information below. Do you care? I hope so, I sure do. Anna is a face to put on the problem.
and Other Prominent Hollywood Women Visit Washington May 7th
to Promote Quality Affordable Health Care for All Children
Group to Join Children’s Defense Fund on Trip to DC Health Clinic, Meetings with Administration Officials and Congressional Leaders
WASHINGTON, DC— On Thursday, May 7, as our nation prepares to celebrate Mother’s Day, a group of prominent Hollywood women––including Jessica Alba, Regina King, Keri Russell, Jurnee Smollett, Ali Wentworth and others―will join Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman and attorney and Washington, DC, First Lady Michelle Fenty on a children’s health reform Child Watch day in Washington, DC.
The group will conduct a CDF Child Watch visit to the Unity Health Care Upper Cardozo Clinic in Columbia Heights, where they will meet children at the clinic and hold a roundtable discussion with health care providers and working families from across the country about the struggles they face in accessing quality affordable health care for their children. The women will share these experiences when they meet with administration officials and Congressional leaders later that day to ask that they ensure all children quality affordable health care as part of the health reform legislation being drafted this month.
WHAT: Mother’s Day Visit to Washington to Promote Children’s Health Reform
WHO:
Jessica Alba, actress
Malaak Compton-Rock, founder and director, The Angelrock Project
Marian Wright Edelman, president, The Children’s Defense Fund
Michelle Fenty, attorney and First Lady of Washington, DC
Ruth-Ann Huvane, child advocate
Regina King, actress
Michelle Kydd Lee, executive director, Creative Artists Agency Foundation
Katie McGrath, child advocate
Shannon Rotenberg, executive director, just keep livin foundation
Keri Russell, actress
Krista Smith, senior West Coast editor, Vanity Fair
Jurnee Smollett, actress
Laura Wasserman, film music supervisor
Ali Wentworth, actress and comedienne
EVENTS: Roundtable Discussion at Unity Health Care Upper Cardozo Clinic
3020 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC
12:00–1:30 p.m. ET
This event will be open to the media but please RSVP to Ed Shelleby at 202-701-7806 or Eshelleby@childrensdefense.org
Meetings with Congressional Leaders
2:00 p.m. ET: Women Senators hosted by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
3:00 p.m. ET: Senate Finance Committee hosted by Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT)
3:30 p.m. ET: Senate Health, Education, Pensions and Labor Committee hosted by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT)
For Congressional meeting photo-ops, contact Ed Shelleby at 202-701-7806 or Eshelleby@childrensdefense.org
About the Children’s Defense Fund
The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) is a non-profit child advocacy organization that has worked relentlessly for 35 years to ensure a level playing field for all children. We champion policies and programs that lift children out of poverty; protect them from abuse and neglect; and ensure their access to health care, quality education, and a moral and spiritual foundation. Supported by foundation and corporate grants and individual donations, CDF advocates nationwide on behalf of children to ensure children are always a priority.
The CDF Leave No Child Behind's mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
About the CDF Child Watch Program
The CDF Child Watch program seeks to educate the heart and the mind; tie the faces of children to unjust budget and policy choices; help influential decision makers see child needs in their own communities; show them positive alternatives; engage them in seeking solutions; and build bridges across race, faith and income. CDF’s goal is to get the movers and shakers to move and shake our policy, media and political leaders to action for children and create a new powerful cadre of leaders for children. The Child Watch program’s roots can be traced back to 1967 when a young civil rights lawyer named Marian Wright took Senator Robert F. Kennedy away from the marble corridors of Washington to the clapboard shacks of the Mississippi Delta to see what was happening to America’s children.
About Unity Health Care
Unity Health Care, Inc. (Unity), Washington, DC’s largest nonprofit health and social services organization, serves individuals and families in all eight wards of the District of Columbia through its network of 14 Community Health Centers, nine sites serving homeless individuals and a mobile medical outreach unit. In 2008, Unity served more than 81,000 of the most vulnerable residents of the District including the uninsured, working poor, homeless and the formerly incarcerated. For more information about Unity Health Care, Inc., visit our website at http://www.unityhealthcare.org/.
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