California Psychiatric Association
Become a CPA Key Contact
What it Takes to be a CPA Key Contact
Time Constraints?
Participate as little or as much as your available time allows.
What do Key Contacts Do?
- Write or make phone calls to state legislators about bills or budget items
- Meet with legislators in their district offices (usually you will have allies with you)
- Work on a campaign
- Participate in campaign events and legislative fundraisers
- Host fundraisers for key legislators
- Author a newspaper opinion piece or letter to the editor, meet with editorial boards
Key Contact Alerts
We send you Key Contact Alerts via our Key Contact Fax system. These Alerts request urgent action from you on
matters of important CPA policy. News Alerts are also sent periodically which provide critical update information on
important legislation or other matters.
Importance of Key Contacts
Being a Key Contact is an important and irreplaceable part of our overall legislative advocacy efforts. CPA is an
influential and acknowledged force for good public policy in our states Capitol. This has been achieved through the
hard work and dedication of the combined efforts of your CPA Government Affairs staff, and CPA Key Contacts. Active
participation of Key Contacts allows organized psychiatry to exert influence on good and bad legislation, good and
bad budget issues, and good and bad regulatory issues on behalf of the patients and the profession of psychiatry.
Know Your Legislator – The First Step
If you do not know who your legislators are, please contact the CPA Office at 800-772-4271. You may also find out
by going to the State Senate’s and State Assembly’s web pages, www.sen.ca.gov, and www.assembly.ca.gov.,
respectively
We Make it Easy
We provide materials to assist in effective letter writing, making appointments with legislators, writing letters
to the editor or op-ed, scripts and talking points for meetings. what to say and who to say it to . . whatever you
need.
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