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This training does not need to be done all at once. If you feel overwhelmed by this information, break it up and do one or two sections at a time.

If you need help with working through any of the sections, contact your Regional Captain or the State Grassroots Coordinator. They are happy to help you through your training. You will be the leader of your district but you have people ready to help you too.

Learning the Acronyms & Setting up your Technology

  • Full list of COS Acronyms
  • If you haven't done so already please confirm your COS Account:
    • Find and open the email asking you to confirm your new COS email account and click the link inside. If you cannot find the confirmation email, please use the link directly below with instructions to resend it. You must NOT be logged into the COS website to use this link: https://conventionofstates.com/users/confirmation/new
    • Remember the confirmation email MAY be in spam or junk.
  • Download the COS Action App to your phone:

   

    • Watch the App Introduction Video and then sign in:

 

    • Watch the TelePatriot Training Video:


As a District Captain it will be your responsibility to encourage your TelePatriot Volunteers to be involved with Calling missions.

COS uses Slack to easily communicate and pass on information to Team Members. 

Slack Tutorial on Use and Download on Android/IOS/Desktop:

 

DC 100 District Captain Leadership Training (1hr, 40min)

Know your State Legislators and your House & Senate District Numbers.

This Colorado link is easy to use and reference. Enter your Address or zip and both your State Senator and Representative will load along with their district numbers:

Find Your Colorado Legislators

Citizen Builder

Citizen Builder (also known as Dashboard) is where we contact volunteers and petition signers, keep track of volunteer activity, and report interactions with legislators.

District Captains have 4 specific responsibilities in Citizen Builder:

1. Processing Volunteer Applicants

2. Processing Followups (This is when we reach out to Petition signers)

3. Maintaining a Potential Volunteers List

4. Submitting Action Reports

Processing Volunteer Applicants

When someone applies to be a volunteer, the application appears in the Leadership Management Tool (LMT). District Captains are responsible for processing applications for Volunteer Activists submitted by people living in their House District.

 

Processing Followups

When people sign the COS petition, their name appears in the
Followup Tool.

District Captains are responsible for sending a followup email to all new petition signers in their house district and calling petition signers that have indicated that they want to learn more about volunteering.

Maintaining a Potential Volunteers List


When people sign our petition, get a followup email, and come back later to tell our computer system that they are interested in volunteering, the only place they will appear is in a specially crafted list. It is the responsibility of a District Captain to have a Potential Volunteers list and to followup with any individuals who appear on it.

 

Submitting Action Reports

Action Reports are a critical part of uniting our individual efforts into one focused movement. They can be made through the COS Action App or the COS Website.

You learned how to do it all - now put it to action!

After learning all the parts of a District Captain job it can seem very difficult to break it down into an achievable list of tasks, but never fear, we've been there, done that, and made the list for you already!

Every Week do these 5 things 2x (or more) 

  1. Check Followups
  2. Check your Potential Volunteers List for new potential volunteers
  3. Check your cos email
  4. Check slack via app or website
  5. Check for Applicants in the LMT (Leadership Management Tool)

Every month do these 5 things at least once

  1. Meet with or contact Volunteer Activists in your district.
  2. Contact your Senator and Representative. If you're able and willing, set up an appointment to meet at the State Capitol in Denver.
  3. Make action reports regarding your contact with your legislators.
  4. Discuss goals for your House District with your Regional Captain.
  5. Attend the Statewide Meeting Free Conference Call every other Monday (1st and 3rd) at 7pm. You will get an email invite from our State Director, Laura Neimeister.

Every year:

  • Participate in at least two petition gathering events.
    • Can be events generated in your house district or helping with a state or region wide event like:
      • a local gun show, state fair, county fair, political party event
    • Can also be a self-created event, like:
      • an educational talk with a group
      • petition gathering outside a retail store, convenience store, gun store, etc. (with have management/owners permission)
      • presentation at a library, in home, etc.
      • organize a block walking event in your neighborhood




Feel free to return to this training to refresh your memory and access resource links.

Return to District Captain Page

Click here to get involved!

Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

We have a growing cancer today known as the Obamacare. As a result physicians are no longer free to practice medicine.

No profession feels the full force of the federal government more than physicians. The medical profession is the most highly regulated profession in the United States. The practice of medicine is controlled, taxed, and regulated to the point of being destroyed by the heavy hand of the federal government.

Physicians are told how to bill, how much to charge, and how to treat patients. They are mandated to use expensive electronic medical records. The federally enacted HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) makes the communication between physicians and atients burdensome, inefficient,and expensive. Every physician is required by federal mandate to register with the government to obtain an NPI (national provider identifier.) We are required by federal law to obtain and pay for a license to prescribe medication through the DEA, which is separate from our state licensure.

This heavy hand of government not only oversees the largest federal health bureaucracy ever created, but by extension reaches into every state, every city, and every small town to regulate how every licensed physician practices the art of medicine and how citizens obtain care.

The treatment is also clear.

The prescription for a cure was written into our constitution by our founders. Article V of our constitution allows for the states to call for a convention of states to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government through the proposal of constitutional amendments. Physicians should be the strongest supporters of this brilliantly-crafted states’ rights tool placed into our constitution by our founders.

I urge my fellow American physicians to join with me in supporting an Article V Convention of States to take back control of the practice of medicine. It’s the only way that we can return the practice of medicine back to the intimate relationship between a doctor and patient without interference by the heavy hand of a distant, national government.

Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D. Family Physician Newport Beach, CA
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