Welcome to the Health Center Advocacy Network – a robust network of over 100,000 Community Health Center Advocates across the nation. The primary purpose of the Health Center Advocacy Network is to support and advance leaders throughout the Community Health Center Movement by equipping people with the power (story and strategy) to create change.

HCAdvocacy.org provides access to programs and tools to build relationships with health center advocates, staff, board members, elected officials, and other stakeholders. Our goal is to build a multi-generational group of leaders committed to ensuring access to affordable, equitable care in medically underserved communities. These leaders are focused on what health centers need to survive and thrive. 

Community Health Centers are health care homes that make up the backbone of our nation’s primary care system. Community, Migrant, Homeless, and Public Housing Health Centers, also known as Federally-Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), a provide comprehensive care to over 31.5 million patients at 15,000 service delivery sites in every state and territory. Health centers save the health care system $24 billion annually in reduced emergency, hospital, and specialty care costs.

The Health Center Advocacy Network is led and organized by The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), a nonprofit organization formed by Community Health Centers. For over 50 years, NACHC has provided education, training, advocacy, and technical support services to health centers, State & Regional Primary Care Associations and Health Center Controlled Networks, and has worked to expand access to primary and preventive care to all people in need through the patient-centered, community-based health center model. Learn more about health centers at www.nachc.org.