COMMUNITY FORUM TOOLKIT
A community forum provides an opportunity to bring together candidates, state elected officials and community members to share ideas about what matters most. For Voices Leadership Committees (VLCs), forums can help make children's issues a top priority by focusing attention on state and local elections and how they can impact Illinois children.
The Voices' Community Forum Toolkit is designed to help children's advocates coordinate and organize a legislative forum in their community. The ready-to-use toolkit can be customized based on a VLC's needs.
Toolkit
- Introduction and Timeline (pdf file 490 kb)
- Inviting the Candidates
- Sample Phone Script (pdf file 196 kb)
- Sample Response Letter (Word file 240 kb)
- Sample Flier (pdf file 1 MB)
- Sample Sign-up Sheet (Word file 715 kb)
- The Facts on Children's Issues (pdf file 238 kb)
- Discussion Guides
- State Policy Discussion Guide (pdf file 367 kb)
- Federal Policy Discussion Guide (pdf file 353 kb)
Download the Community Forum Toolkit in its entirety (pdf file 395 kb).
