Champion the cause. Get informed. Find your voice. Tell your friends. Engaging in advocacy and public policy with United Way of Salt Lake is a powerful way to make a difference in people's lives. In as little as ten minutes a week, your voice can help bring about positive change.

Get Involved Stay in the know about opportunities to get involved. Take action. Sign up for our Policy Matters e-newsletter. Key Priorities Get the details on the legislative issues we support. Check out our 2010 legislative session recap. Tools & Resources Take advantage of these tools and resources and become a better advocate for change that benefits the entire community.

• The Kaiser Family Foundation:
  o Summary of Coverage Provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010
  o Health Reform Implementation Timeline
  o A comprehensive side-by-side tool of major health care reform proposals can be accessed here
       o In the "Please choose one or more proposals" box choose "White House/Leadership
           Reconciliation Bill"
       o In the "Please choose one or more topics for comparison" box choose select all, or click
          on the boxes that you are most interested in
       o Click "Generate Comparison"   
• The Center for Children and Families, an independent, nonpartisan research and policy center based at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute, has a summary of the key Medicaid, CHIP and low-income provisions. This will provide a good summary regarding the impact on the populations the UWSL and our community partners and agencies work to serve. Read it here. 
• Shorter summaries produced by newspaper reporters:
  o Deseret News
  o Associated Press
  o New York Times