Action Kit Healthy from the Start Campaign The goal of the Healthy from the Start Campaign is to change federal policy to include women, children, and future generations in environmental health standards. The Open Letter to President Bush on Protecting the Most Vulnerable now has well over 2,000 signatures, but we will need more to get the attention of the media, Congress, and the White House. This Action Kit provides resources anyone can use to help build this necessary political leverage. In the process, you will educate people in your community about critical environmental health issues. Thank you for helping to advance this important campaign. Action Kit Ingredients: Handbill Open Letter to President Bush (without initial signatories) (with initial signatories) Sign-up sheet Talking points (one per sheet) (two per sheet)       Question for the Candidates about protecting the most vulnerable Table (you provide) Pen (you provide) Steps: 1. Before your signature-collection or tabling event:         a. Print out the handbill. Make several copies on card stock paper. Get it cut into quarters or cut them yourself.         b. Print out a copy of the Open Letter to President Bush (more if you want to distribute them as handouts, too.)         c. Print out several copies of the sign-up sheet.         d. Print out the talking points.         e. Pack up the above with your table and pen. 2. Set up your table with a copy of the letter, sign-up sheet, pen, and handbills. 3. Invite passersby to sign on to the Open Letter to President Bush on Protecting the Most Vulnerable. Use the talking points to convey why it's important for people to care and take action. 4. If they are not ready to sign now, invite them to take home a handbill and sign up on the Web or by phone. 5. After you're done collecting signatures, mail or fax them to Campaign Signatures, c/o IEER, 6935 Laurel Ave., Suite 201, Takoma Park, MD 20912. Fax: 301-270-3029. Or, if you'd like to help out even more, enter the sign-ons yourself at www.ieer.org/campaign (click "Sign on to letter" to enter each signatory). Thank you very much for your work to improve environmental health standards.