Alliance for Childhood Cancer Action Days 2025
We're joining together with over 350 advocates from all around the country this week for the 15th Annual Alliance for Childhood Cancer Action Days.
The energy and passion of these advocates is so inspiring, as we mobilize together to ensure that lawmakers understand the urgent need to prioritize children with cancer. Please join us from home in asking Congress to make key investments in research and take action on our community's policy priorities at the first available legislative opportunity.
Specifically, here's what Alliance advocates will be asking for in these meetings on Capitol Hill:
Cosponsoring the Give Kids a Chance Act of 2025 (H.R. 1262), comprehensive legislation that aims to remove barriers in pediatric drug development and speed therapies to children who need them by incentivizing pediatric research and making needed changes to pediatric drug laws;
Cosponsoring the Accelerating Kids’ Access to Care Act (H.R. 1509), a bipartisan bill that improves access to specialized care for children with complex medical needs by removing bureaucratic red tape from Medicaid;
Protecting Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which play a critical role in ensuring that children with cancer have timely access to quality, uninterrupted care; and
Supporting continued, uninterrupted childhood cancer research through a budget that includes strong funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), including full funding of the Childhood Cancer STAR Act and the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative. We also emphasize that any changes to NIH policy considered by the Administration or Congress must ensure children and their families aren’t harmed.
Will you join this community effort by clicking through to our action alert? Kids with cancer are counting on us to be their voice.
This is a truly critical moment to make an impact because there's a big legislative deadline looming. To learn more about these issues and that upcoming March 14th deadline, we've got a new webinar that dives into the details.
In this interactive, on-demand webinar presented by our policy team - ready for you to watch right now - we take a closer look at all of these pressing issues in the context of today's fast-changing policy landscape.
Whether you're joining us in person for Action Days or from home, this webinar will help you be a more empowered, informed advocate.
The below clip provides tips for effective advocacy and how to get your message across in meetings with legislative staff. Find the full webinar here.