STATE PRIORITIES
Our state policy priorities offer a range of solutions aimed at improving the lives of Arizonians.
housing and homelessness priorities
Goal: Ensure all can have a safe home to call their own.
Focus: Maintaining safe and stable housing through various prevention, wraparound, and rehousing services, expanding and strengthening programs that address homelessness, broader housing options, and housing affordability, including housing tax credits.
1. Monitor funding for AZ 2-1-1, a critical entry point to services for individuals in crisis.
2. Monitor the Arizona Promise Budget – $13M in awards for Eviction Prevention and Homelessness Response in Arizona
education priorities
Goal: Ensure all families have quality education options through sustained funding and effective policies that close gaps in access, quality, and outcomes.
Focus: Close opportunity gaps to ensure children read at grade level by 3rd grade and youth are prepared for educational success and employment.
1. Participate in stakeholder meetings and monitor bills related to student literacy ensuring proposed legislation is supportive of education goals.
2. Advance equitable and accountable education funding across all school types and ensure equitable access to the supports needed by students to succeed.
3. Protect support for student success through mental health services, digital literacy, and college and career readiness.
health priorities
Goal: Remove barriers to ensure everyone in our community is healthy, with a focus on access to food and health care.
Focus: Help people overcome barriers to good health by improving access to nutritious food and quality health education and services, including preventative care.
1. Protect funding to eliminate co-pays ($0.70 per day) for reduced-price school meals for eligible students, estimated to provide about 10 million free meals and approximately 40,000 additional children with free breakfast and lunch.
2. Support policy aimed at providing and maintaining Medicare and Medicaid at current funded levels.
workforce development priorities
Goal: Remove barriers to ensure everyone in our community is healthy, with a focus on access to food and health care.
Focus: Help people overcome barriers to good health by improving access to nutritious food and quality health education and services, including preventative care.
1. Protect funding to eliminate co-pays ($0.70 per day) for reduced-price school meals for eligible students, estimated to provide about 10 million free meals and approximately 40,000 additional children with free breakfast and lunch.
2. Support policy aimed at providing and maintaining Medicare and Medicaid at current funded levels.
Other priorities
County priorities
Our county policy priorities aim to enhance the lives of Maricopa County residents.
Local PRIORITIES
Our local public policy priorities addresses issues that our local community has shared are most important.
For more information, please contact:
Beatrice “Bea” Rocklin
(602) 499-8600
Bea@beaspoken.com
