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Take action on current state, federal legislation

Advocacy Action Center helps you act now ... because it takes more than food to fight hunger.

• Read Oregon Food Bank's 2010 TEFAP Reports:
  Keeping our Heads above Water and Fuel for Half the Trip.
  
• Learn about federal Child Nutrition Reauthorization
  

• Action Alert!

• Learn about current legislation
• Join the coalition to restore Oregon's General Assistance Program.
• Sign on to increase Oregon's Earned Income Tax Credit
• Read this month's Advocacy Alert for other ways to become an advocate.
• Read OFB's 2008 Voices report, the result of focus groups that OFB conducted with emergency-food-box recipients to learn more about their experiences living with hunger.
• See Oregon's SNAP/Food Stamp Participation Report
• View the 2007 legislative outcomes score card.
• Read about how the Oregon Legislature voted in 2007

Share your story
Have you recently accessed emergency food? Have you recently lost your job? Are medical bills hitting you hard? Do you have trouble paying for housing?

Your story can help inform OFB's efforts to address the root causes of hunger. Legislators, the public and the media need to hear your voice.

Please call 971-230-1637 to have your voice heard and make a change.

Useful contacts

Oregon SafeNet
Information and Referral for food stamps, Oregon Health Plan, school lunches
1-800-SafeNet
1-800-723-3638

Governor's Advocacy Line
Call to report problems receiving Department of Human Services (DHS) assistance
1-800-442-5238

Oregon Helps
Information and referral Web site for social service programs.
www.OregonHelps.org