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Upcoming Events
- 11/X/25 - Hearings at the Legislative Office Building
- 11/X/25 - Hearings at the Legislative Office Building
- 11/X/25 - Hearings at the Legislative Office Building
- 11/X/25 - Hearings at the Legislative Office Building
Meeting Agendas
10-27-25
- Jotform finalization (Carl 5 minutes)
- Question tree work (10-25 minutes)
- Resources page outline (5-10 minutes)
- Training materials (who develops, who approves, any ideas or resources already known) (5-10 minutes)
10-20-25
- Email/call template(s) (5-15 minutes)
- Three sentences talking points
- How to respond to difficult questions/topics in an exchange
- Question tree (5-10 minutes)
- Update on volunteer recruitment (5-10 minutes)
- Legislator poll phone banking event (5-10 minutes)
- Outline for legislative advocacy resources page on website? (5-10 minutes)
10-13-25
- Indigenous peoples’ day!
10-6-25
- Peer org outreach update (20 mins)
- Champion outreach update (5-15 mins)
- Update on phone poll (5-20 mins)
Meeting Minutes
10-20-25
Attendees
Kate Brown, Michaela Fissel, Carl Mancini, Jennifer Henry, Aaron Jackson, Paul Downing, Fin Hirschoff
Minutes
- New date for phone poll is 11/18, 2-5pm
- Phone poll training participants will get 1 CEU
- Email to potential volunteers should go out 10/27
- We will reach out to RSS students from 2022 on (not including current students), as well as folks from the advocacy training list
- Volunteer goal is about 31, which would work out to calling 5 offices per person
- Advocacy resources page on the website will be called “advocacy,” with a banner at the top directing people seeking individual advocacy elsewhere
Next Steps
- Fin to draft message to recruit volunteers
- Fin to draft basics of poll day training
- Fin to solicit ideas for question tree “no” responses
- Group to brainstorm topics for “difficult topics”
- Carl to make Jotform for phone bank registration
10-6-25
Attendees
Michaela Fissel, Jennifer Henry, Carl Mancini, Fin Hirschoff, Kate Brown, Charles Brown
Minutes
- Outreach to peer organizations
- AU contact person is Carl
- We will develop a email template, talking points document
- Organizations mentioned were KTP, ACLU, The Alliance, CT Cross-Disability Alliance, RBHAOs, PAIMI Council
- Update on legislative champion letter/legislation
- Carl continued outreach efforts with phone follow-up. He spoke to Lesser’s aide Matt Plourde
- Left voicemails for the other five
- We brought up the topic of outreach to legislators outside the Democrats
- Discussed being ready to discuss topics like gun violence and mental illness if these come up
Next Steps
- Make a template for how to reach out by email (Fin/Carl/Michaela)
- Discuss talking points at next meeting
- Continue to develop question tree for legislator poll
- Recruit volunteers from RSS graduates (Michaela/Em)
- No meeting on Indigenous Peoples’ Day