Advocacy Toolkit
2025 Legislative Session Advocacy Toolkit
Support advocacy efforts during the 2025 Legislative Session by utilizing this Advocacy Toolkit. This toolkit can be utilized by college presidents, board members, Campus Advocacy Coordinators (CACs), college government affairs staff, students and other stakeholders. Contact OCCA Communications Director Casey White-Zollman with any questions.
Toolkit documents will be added throughout the Session as needed, so keep checking back for new resources!
Informational One-Pagers
These flyers can be used to help educate legislators on certain issues/bills. Feel free to email them to your legislators or leave them behind after an in-person meeting with them!
- Community College Budget Request & Legislative Priorities One-Pager (updated 2/2025)
- Capital Construction One-Pager (updated 5/2025)
- Student Basic Needs One-Pager
Talking Points
Use these talking points when speaking with legislators during in-person, virtual or phone visits. They can also be used when speaking with faculty, staff, students, and other partners and stakeholders.
- Community College Support Fund/Budget Talking Points (updated 1/23/2025)
- SB 478: Revises Duties of CC Board Members (updated 1/24/2025)
- Talking Points from Legislative Summit (budget, SB 478, Benefits Navigators, Capital Construction Cap Increase)
Testimony Templates
Utilize these templates for in-person or virtual testimonies, or for written testimonies.
Other Advocacy Resources
- Active OCCA One Click Politics Campaigns
- Ways to be an Advocate
- Lobbying Tips
- Advocacy Training Video
- Advocacy Training PowerPoint Presentation
- Legislative Session Social Media Guidance for Colleges
- CTE Month Weekly Themes & Guidance
- Community Colleges 101 Presentation
- 2025 Legislative Session & Advocacy Lunch & Learn Presentation
- Legislative Summit Presentation – Legislative Update & Priorities
- Bill Tracker
- Legislative Meeting Feedback Form
- April Community College Month Resources
- April Community College Month Logo (color) | black/white
Letters to the Editor
Utilize one of these letters to help advocate on behalf of community colleges in your local media. Feel free to modify based on your specific background and details, then send to your local newspaper.
Zoom Backgrounds
Utilize these backgrounds for your Zoom meetings to help spread the word that Community Colleges WORK for Oregon. Each one features a different Oregon landscape.
2024 Legislative Session Advocacy Toolkit
Click here for the 2023 Advocacy Toolkit
Support advocacy efforts during the 2024 Legislative Session by utilizing this Advocacy Toolkit. This toolkit can be utilized by college presidents, board members, Campus Advocacy Coordinators (CACs), college government affairs staff, students and other stakeholders. Contact OCCA Communications Director Casey White-Zollman with any questions.
Toolkit documents will be added throughout the Session as needed, so keep checking back for new resources!
Informational One-Pagers
These flyers can be used to help educate legislators on certain issues/bills. Feel free to email them to your legislators or leave them behind after an in-person meeting with them!
- Priority Bills & Ones to Watch
- Corequisite Education
- Student Aid Overview
- Semiconductor Workforce Needs – courtesy of Oregon Semiconductor Coalition
- HB 4162 Student Emergency Needs Package – courtesy of Oregon Student Association
Talking Points
Use these talking points when speaking with legislators during in-person, virtual or phone visits. They can also be used when speaking with faculty, staff, students, and other partners and stakeholders.
- Corequisite Education
- HB 4154 Semiconductor Workforce Needs – courtesy of Oregon Semiconductor Coalition
- Oregon Opportunity Grant
2023 Advocacy Toolkit
Support advocacy efforts during the 2023 Legislative Session by utilizing this Advocacy Toolkit. This toolkit can be utilized by college presidents, board members, Campus Advocacy Coordinators (CACs), college government affairs staff, students and other stakeholders. Contact OCCA Communications Director Casey White-Zollman with any questions.
Informational One-Pagers
2023 Legislative Priorities
2023 Budget Request
All CC Funding Requests
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
Oregon Opportunity Grant (OOG)
Capital Construction Requests (list)
Capital Construction Requests (detail)
Testimony Templates
Utilize these templates for oral testimonies to the Joint Subcommittee on Education during public testimony on April 25, 2023
Board Member Templates
- Testimony Template Option 1 (budget)
- Testimony Template Option 2 (budget)
- Testimony Template Option 3 (budget)
- Testimony Template Option 4 (Oregon Opportunity Grant)
- Testimony Template Option 5 (CTE/Workforce)
Student Templates
