HealthAdvocateX

Our goals are to (1) Increase awareness of health advocacy so that the public understands what health advocacy is and how it can benefit health choices; (2) Help individuals, communities and professionals build health advocacy skills and confidence by providing programs, events, services and products; (3) To make it easy to find and use health advocacy resources including professional advocates, specific and timely support, credible and accessible information and tools to make navigating and health care decision-making easier; and (4) To become a nationally recognized leading voice for health advocacy in growing the movement.

We will accomplish our goals through increased paid membership gains, increased membership revenue (with emphasis placed on increasing the ranks of our Professional and Partner members), distribution of our monthly e-news to a broader audience. We will continue to build skills and confidence in our members and will also serve as a Resource Hub through our Inquiry program, annual conference, membership directory and website. Finally, we will become nationally recognized by continuing to help grow the movement towards active health advocacy for all.

We are well on our way towards meeting our goals with current volunteer staffing levels. Recognizing that we must transition to a paid staff model in order to grow as quickly as we would like, we have plans to hire an Executive Director and to staff the Marketing and Communications area within the coming year (2022) to help us serve more of those in need of advocacy services.

Despite the Pandemic we have continued to see growth in our membership over the past two years.

To highlight our positive momentum, during the Pandemic we pivoted our Community Conversations program to focus on the effects of Covid-19 in the Pacific Northwest with focus on our home base of Seattle. These monthly sessions were very well attended, allowing participants to ask questions of our Board member and presenter, Dr. Dale Reisner, Medical Director over Obstetrics and Gynecology, Quality and Safety with Swedish Health Services.

We are a national non-profit organization that brings together health advocates, patients, caregivers, health providers, allied health businesses, communities and educational representatives to promote health advocacy with the purpose of helping every person get the care they deserve.

We host professional networking sessions throughout the year, bringing together advocates from across the country to build relationships, share ideas and learn from each other. This program has grown rapidly and has been recognized as a tool that advocates, both experienced and new to the business, find helpful in their development.

Our Inquiry program, designed to help members of the public find the help they need to get the care they require, has grown rapidly and now serves several hundred members of the public each year.

Our annual conference attended by professional health advocates, family caregivers and patients, will focus on lessons learned from the pandemic in 2021.