Advocacy

Your experience makes a difference.

Project Sleep is passionate about educating decision-makers and advancing progress through public policy and advocacy efforts. By elevating the voices of individuals facing sleep-related issues and leveraging policy expertise, we are helping to improve outcomes for people across America. 

Important opportunities arise throughout the year, get involved in sleep advocacy by signing up for e-updates.

Guiding Principles

Advancing Sleep Research

Project Sleep advocates for robust federal research funding to elucidate the underlying mechanisms of sleep and to develop novel treatments, early detection tools, and prevention strategies for people living with sleep-related conditions. Likewise, we support federal data collection and survey efforts to better understand population-wide sleep trends.

Accelerating Treatment Options

People with sleep-related conditions need a seat at the table throughout the clinical research process. This is why Project Sleep is passionate about bringing the perspectives and priorities of people living with sleep disorders and their loved ones into clinical research.

Ensuring Access to Healthcare

Access to healthcare providers, services and treatments is essential to improve outcomes for all those living with sleep-related conditions. Project Sleep supports policies that improve access to healthcare resources, including comprehensive, affordable, and non-discriminatory health insurance.

Furthering Education, Awareness and Training

Project Sleep supports policies that increase sleep health and sleep disorders education, awareness and training opportunities.

Addressing Sleep Health Disparities

Project Sleep worked with the sleep health disparities research community to develop specific sleep health disparities policy recommendations.

Raise Your Voice for Sleep Advocacy

The sleep community has made advancements, but we need your help! Your experience plays a powerful role in helping decision-makers understand the real-life ramifications of sleep conditions and sleep loss across America. Sign up for our e-updates to take action. 

Sleep Advocacy Champion Award

Started in 2023, the Sleep Advocacy Champion award annually recognizes an individual who has worked to elevate the voice of sleep through federal and grassroots advocacy and public discourse. Each year, the award recipient is recognized for outstanding and significant contributions advancing the policy goals of Project Sleep and the broader sleep community.

Sleep Advocacy Champions are trailblazers and community leaders who lead by example and embody Project Sleep’s commitment to making progress for sleep health, sleep equity, and sleep disorders.

Project Sleep was thrilled to present the inaugural Sleep Advocacy Champion award to Matthew Horsnell, a Project Sleep Rising Voices speaker, Wake Up Narcolepsy small groups facilitator, and incredibly dedicated sleep advocate. Learn more about the inaugural award in the 2023 Sleep Advocacy Forum blog post.

Project Sleep Advocacy Latest News

Project Sleep Brings Patient Voices to White House Listening Session

Exciting news! On Dec 8, 2023, Project Sleep participated in a White House virtual Listening Session on Burden Reduction. This session focused on decreasing burdens individuals and families face when accessing government benefits and services. Members of the Office of Public Engagement, Office of Management and Budget, and the White House Domestic Policy Council listened…

Sleep Advocates Educate Policymakers on Capitol Hill

On Tuesday, Nov. 14th, 2023, following the White House Sleep Equity Briefing, Project Sleep and other leading sleep organizations visited Capitol Hill to meet with important policymakers in Congress. This 2023 Hill Day activities included 25 sleep community leaders representing 16 different states who visited 29 Congressional offices. Sleep Community Rallies Together Participants included leaders…

White House Sleep Equity Convening

HUGE NEWS! On Tuesday, Nov. 14th, 2023, Project Sleep partnered with the White House Office of Public Engagement to host a Sleep Equity Convening. This meeting was the first-of-its-kind on sleep with the White House. The conversation brought together leaders from 12 sleep-related organizations, professional societies, and patient advocacy organizations including: Airway Revolution Foundation Alliance of…

2023 Sleep Advocacy Forum Focuses on Sleep Equity and Public Health

On Monday Nov 13, 2023, Project Sleep facilitated the fourth annual Sleep Advocacy Forum in Washington, DC. This in-person event brought together a diverse group of policy makers and sleep community leaders to share updates and discuss areas of common interest. Rising Voices Story Sharing from Kristyn Beecher News producer, Rising Voices speaker, and Project…
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