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Personal contact from voters who care about CFIDS is the secret weapon in the CFIDS advocacy arsenal. To facilitate contact with elected officials, The CFIDS Association of America sponsors an annual Washington,D.C.Lobby Day event.This year, Lobby Day will be held September 17-18, 2003. (Please note this is rescheduled from our previously announced March dates.)

On Lobby Day, CFIDS advocates from around the country, including persons with CFIDS (PWCs) and their family members and friends, come together on Capitol Hill to personally educate Congress about CFIDS and ask for help in securing an improved federal response to the illness.

Lobby Day participants are trained on effective meeting strategies and provided with materials to share with elected officials so they will feel confident and prepared before their first meeting.

For more information, please visit http://www.cfids.org/advocacy/lobby-day.asp.