Your elected government officials and their staff drive and create public policies. As someone who is both a constituent and a laboratory professional, you are the ideal person to educate these officials about policies that are important to the field of clinical laboratory science and its application to healthcare. With the resources in this toolkit, the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (formerly AACC) wants to make it easy for you to become a grassroots advocate for policies that will improve patient care, promote innovation, and ensure high-quality testing for all.