Advocacy Toolkit

Advocacy Toolkit

2027 Legislative Session Advocacy Toolkit

Support advocacy efforts during the 2027 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 as you have conversations with legislators. 

Contact Director of Policy & Legislative Affairs Brett Rowlett with any questions.

Toolkit documents will be added throughout the Session as needed, so keep checking back for new resources!

Informational One-Pagers

Talking Points

CTE Month

February is National CTE Month, which coincides with the 2027 Legislative Session. These are resources that can be used during CTE Month.

Other Resources

Advocacy Toolkit Archive

Archive - 2026 Legislative Session Advocacy Toolkit

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!

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.

Other Resources

CTE Month

February is National CTE Month, which coincides with the 2026 Legislative Session. These are resources that can be used during CTE Month.

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!

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.

Testimony Templates

Utilize these templates for in-person or virtual testimonies, or for written testimonies.

Other Advocacy Resources

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.

Board Member – Workforce 

Students – Affordability 

Students – Budget Advocacy

Signage

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.

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!

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.

Other Advocacy Resources

Informational One-Pagers

Talking Points

Testimony Templates

Utilize these templates for oral testimonies to the Joint Subcommittee on Education during public testimony.

Board Member Templates

Student Templates

Other Advocacy Resources