The Toronto Disaster Relief Committee lobby effort to have homelessness
declared a national disaster has been pretty successful on a number of fronts.
Please feel free to contact me at a416-703-8482 (117) or email at
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Wolf Kirsten wrote:

> Can anyone direct me to an organization/individual that has been successful
> with advocating / lobbying health promotion issues recently? I know there
> are strong opinions about advocacy in Canada and there have been
> discussions on this listserve in the past. Our global newsletter "Health
> Promotion: Global Perspectives" will focus on this topic for the next
> issue. We would like to share effective initiatives with professionals
> throughout the world to learn from each other. We are looking at US and
> Canadian advocacy efforts but definitely want to feature other countries as
> well (usually 4-5 countries per issue from different regions). I would
> appreciate any help and can send some guidelines for those interested.
> Thank you.
>
> WOLF KIRSTEN
> International Program Manager
> National Center for Health Fitness
> Nebraska Hall - LL
> American University
> 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW
> Washington D.C.  20016-8037
> Tel: 202-885-6218 Fax: 202-885-1346
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> website:  http://www.healthy.american.edu/iihp.html