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White House to Hold Conference on Hunger

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The White House has announced a Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health for Wednesday, September 28, 2022. It will be the first such conference in 50 years.

According to the White House, "the Conference will bring government leaders, academics, activists, and Americans from all walks of life together to achieve the goal of ending hunger and reducing diet-related diseases in the U.S. by 2030 – all while reducing disparities among the communities who are impacted the most by these issues. We will announce a national strategy at the Conference that identifies actions the government will take to catalyze the public and private sectors to drive transformative change and address the intersections between food, hunger, nutrition, and health."

Last summer, NAC joined with other faith-based organizations calling on President Biden to bring together policymakers, advocates and those with lived experiences for a White House Summit to end hunger in America. We look forward to participating in the Conference.

Details on the Conference are available at this website.

Educational materials and social media images for the 2020 Labeling for Lent Campaign 
Resources for the 2020 Labeling for Lent Campaign
, an effort from the Coalition of Catholic Organizations against Human Trafficking to help end labor trafficking in the seafood industry:
  • Educational Materials:
    • Labeling for Lent 2020 Primer
    • Human Trafficking in the Maritime Industry
    • From Catch to Plate - How Slave Labor Feeds the Seafood Supply Chain
    • Trafficking in the Maritime World (Caritas Internationalis)  
  • Social Media Posts (For Facebook and Twitter):
    • Pope Francis and Responsible Consumerism
      • FACEBOOK and TWITTER
    • CCOAHT Labeling For Lent
    • Myo’s Story
      • FACEBOOK and TWITTER  
  • Story of a Survivor:
    • Seafood from Slaves: Former fishing slave, Myint Naing, returns home after being enslaved for 22 years. Video Credit:  Associated Press, Tortured Fish Slave Returns Home After 22 Years (June 30, 2015) 
The 2020 campaign targets the company, Sysco.  To view a copy of the postcard, click here.  

Spotlighting the root causes and intersections
on human trafficking


We have REACHED CAPACITY for the room we have for the conference.
​  Thank you for your interest in ending human trafficking. 

Details

Wednesday, June 26, 2019 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Boxed lunch included
Room: 122 Cannon House Office Building, Capitol Hill 
10:00 am - 1:30 pm Conference
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Congressional Advocacy Visits

The conference will be held in 122 Cannon House Office Building, U.S. House of Representatives on Capitol Hill .  Advance registration is required due to room size constraints and because we prearrange the Congressional visits.

The conference is free.  Registration will close when we reach capacity.

The U.S. Capitol Visitor Center has information on getting to the U.S. Capitol area, and here is other information on ways to get to the Cannon House Office Building by public transportation. 

Please make note of the prohibited items, which include food and bottled water, when entering the U.S. Capitol Complex.

Check out these fascinating facts of the Cannon House Office Building.
Speakers will discuss human trafficking (both sex and labor) in the U.S. and overseas and will include survivors of trafficking, policy experts and advocates.

Our 2019 bi-partisan honorary congressional co-chairs are:
  • Representative Ann Wagner (R-MO)
  • Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD)

Confirmed speakers thus far:
  • Bailey - Sex Trafficking Survivor / Self-Advocate
  • Taina Bien-Aimé - Executive Director of Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, a non-governmental organization that works to end human trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of women and children worldwide
  • Hilary Chester, PhD - Associate Director, Anti-Trafficking Program,
    United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
  • Evelyn Chumbow - Speaker with Survivors of Slavery (Labor Trafficking Survivor)
  • Sr. Winifred Doherty, RGS - United Nations Representative for the Congregation
  • Lt. Sarah Krebs - Missing Persons Coordination Unit within the Special Investigations Division of the Michigan State Police
  • Neha Misra, JD - Solidarity Center, Migration and Human Trafficking Specialist
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President Daniel Ortega is not the resistance leader whom many embraced years ago. He has become an autocrat who violently represses any dissent with police, military and paramilitary force. Every international organization (UNHCR, Organization of American States, Amnesty International, and more) that has reviewed the situation on the ground has concluded that Ortega is guilty of massive human rights violations resulting in the death of innocent protesters.

Want to learn more and find out how to help our neighbors? Visit our Central America page.​​


See NAC's 2019 Year End Report below.
Read about NAC's 2018 Accomplishments.
Read about NAC's 2017 Accomplishments.
Read about NAC's 2016 Accomplishments.
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Participants received an overview of human trafficking (both sex and labor) in the U.S. and overseas. Two panels focused separately on sex trafficking and labor trafficking and will include survivors of trafficking, policy experts and advocates.  Participants also heard from Members of Congress and learn what they - as people of faith and the general public - can do in their districts to most effectively lobby on important issues, like human trafficking.

Our 2018 bi-partisan congressional co-sponsors were:
  • Representative Ann Wagner (R-MO)
  • Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD)

Our speakers included:
  • Angela Aufdemberge - President and CEO of Vista Maria, a Good Shepherd residential treatment facility for youth
  • Hilary Chester, PhD - Associate Director, Anti-Trafficking Program,
    United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
  • Sr. Winifred Doherty, RGS - United Nations Representative for the Congregation
  • Marcia Eugenio - Director, Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking in the Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor
  • Survivors of Trafficking
2021 Postcard

2020 NAC GOALS AND STRATEGIC PLAN

2019-2023 NAC Strategic Plan Page 1 

2019 - 2023 NAC Strategic Plan (ALL)

2020 NAC Goals

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PDFs for Display

Senator Schatz letter: draft_letter_re._nonprofits_in_cv4_edits.pdf
JFI Flyer for June 19 DACA Webinar Post June 18 Decision:  daca-scotus_webinar_flyer__final___3_.pdf
Interfaith Toolkit for a Faithful Budget
Congress is preparing for critical budget decisions this winter; budget decisions that have to pass both the House and the Senate. Members of Congress need to hear from concerned constituents in order to stand strong against cuts to crucial programs.

This toolkit, developed by the Interfaith Immigration Coalition, will tell you the why and the how. (To learn more about our 2017 Faithful Budget, visit our Faithful Budget Page.)

COVID-19

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Link to Save the Date for 2020 Interfaith4Asylum Launch ( Vigils Jan 29 2020)

Community Change Action Federal Relief Fact Sheet

    Share Your Story on
    Paid Family & Medical Leave

    Paid family and medical leave would enable workers to earn time off to tend to a sick family member, take care of a new baby or newly adopted child or to take time to recuperate themselves.

    Do you have a story to tell supporting paid family and medical leave? Personal stories help explain this need to Members of Congress. Help us pass this bill into law.
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Stop Human Trafficking

Interfaith Toolkit on Human Trafficking
The Washington Inter-Religious Staff Community, of which NAC is a member, has put together an Interfaith Toolkit on Human Trafficking to educate individuals and members of parishes and organizations and then to help them mobilize and put an end to human trafficking.

The toolkit contains basic information about trafficking, as well as specific information on the connection between consumerism and trafficking, which is the theme of the 2017 toolkit.

We encourage communities to focus on the way in which consumerism and lack of accountability in business supply chains result in millions of people being trafficked or enslaved. The toolkit also contains faith-based resources and contains ideas for local faith communities to take action against human trafficking.

We hope this toolkit will help local faith communities across the country raise awareness, promote dialogue, and take moral action against the scourge of modern-day slavery.
Toolkit

2019 HTC Flyer and Meme

2019 meme
​2019 Flyer

Together with other members of the Washington Inter-religious Staff Community (WISC). the National Advocacy Center shares this interfaith toolkit created by the WISC Working Group on Human Trafficking.  The toolkit is intended o be a starting point for faith communities around the country as they seek to educate themselves and take action during Human Trafficking Awareness Month each January - and every month.  We urge you to help raise awareness, promote dialogue and take moral action against the scourge of modern-day slavery.

NAC Strategic Plan

2019-2023 Strategic Plan Shareable Page
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Human Trafficking comprises the fastest growing criminal industry in the world.

Get this toolkit to educate individuals and members of parishes and organizations and then to help them mobilize and put an end to human trafficking.


https://www.cfr.org/interactives/modern-slavery/#!/section1/item-1

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Minimum wage


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Links 4 Action Alerts that are not on NAC site

Wendy's Boycott Flyer 2019 (English)
Wendy's Boycott Flyer 2019 (Spanish)
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Vote in 2016 & Engage Elected Officials

Prepare for the elections and read our 2016 Voting Guide:
  • The essential truth of the Gospel
  • The beauty of Pope Francis’s vision
  • The social mission of Catholic Church

Learn how to personally advocate for change and garner other advocacy resources.
Learn More

 Keep these items for possible future use

See our inside page for statements, releases, and more supporting our Muslim brothers and sisters here in America and those fleeing persecution, war and economic injustice.
Tell your Member of Congress to support HR 5207 forbidding a ban on refugees or immigrants because of their faith.
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  • Video by Fr. James Martin, SJ, on the Church's relationship with the LGBT community (Jun 13, 2016)
  • Religion News Service article on Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich decrying the massacre of gays and lesbians targeted in the Orlando shooting (Jun 12, 2016)
  • Carbon-fast guide for Lent and Easter 2017 from Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand 

  • ​Image (ENG) for May 13th Rosaries and Document (ENG) for May 13th Rosaries

Paid Family & Medical Leave

You’ve been sick. Did you stay home?  Was your job at risk?  Who took care of your sick little kindergardener with fever?  You?  Was your job at risk?

Paid family and medical leave enables workers to earn time off to tend to a sick family member, take care of a new baby or newly adopted child or to take time to recuperate themselves.  We all need a fair shake.

Read more on our Poverty Page. 

Do you have a story to tell supporting paid family and medical leave? We would love to hear from you.  Please visit our Outreach Page to share your story.