Building Relationships with Elected Officials to Champion Prevention S3 EP2

Building Relationships with Elected Officials to Champion Prevention – Season 3, Episode 2
In this podcast episode, host Dr. Holly Raffle speaks with Dontavius Jarrells, Ohio House of
Representatives and Maggie Lutterus, Public Policy & Advocacy Coordinator at Prevention Action
Alliance. In this discussion, we identified best practices for engaging with elected officials and their staff
to build lasting partnerships that advance prevention efforts and ways to position organizations as a
credible resource for the elected official and their team.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
 Pay Stub Protection Act
 Rep. Jarrells, Community Organizations Highlight Societal, Economic Benefits of Passing Lead
Line Replacement Act in Cleveland
 Prevention Action Alliance-Resources for Prevention Advocacy

 Ohio Legislative Service Commission
 Redbook-LBO Analysis of Executive Budget Proposal

 Advocacy Toolkit-CADCA’s Guide to Educating Legislators

 Ohio House Begins Hearings on the State's Main Operating Budget

 Bipartisan Foster-to-College Scholarship Act Reintroduced to Support Ohios Foster Youth

 Schoolhouse Rock: How a Bill Becomes a Law

 How Laws Are Made

 Branches of the U.S. Government