Navigating Healthcare and Becoming an Effective Advocate
When someone you love needs care, your voice matters. Join us for practical guidance, meaningful conversation, and tools to help you advocate with greater confidence.
Navigating Healthcare & Becoming an Effective Advocate
Watch our Legacy Forum #4 video here or view it on YouTube.
You don’t have to navigate care alone.
Navigating healthcare can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re caring for a parent, spouse, family member, or friend. This forum brings caregivers, older adults, families, and professionals together to explore how to prepare for appointments, communicate with healthcare teams, and advocate for quality care.
Prepare for the Visit
Organize health information, track medications, and prepare questions that help you make the most of medical appointments.
Make Your Voice Heard
Communicate concerns, ask about diagnoses and treatment options, and strengthen your confidence as a healthcare advocate.
Connect the Care
Explore ways to coordinate across providers and prepare for care transitions and unexpected disruptions.
Pastor Tony Montgomery, Sr.
Author of Honey, I Need an Advocate, joining us for a conversation about healthcare navigation and becoming an effective advocate.
Tony Montgomery, Sr. is a native of Hopkins, South Carolina, and a second-generation preacher and pastor. He graduated from Morehouse College with a degree in Business Administration, with an emphasis in Commercial Real Estate, and began pastoring in 1996.
He serves as pastor of Greater St. James Missionary Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi, and lead chaplain for the Jackson Fire Department. He also serves as the 7th District Chaplain of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
In December 2025, he completed four units of Clinical Pastoral Education training with the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy at Baptist Medical Center in Jackson.
He and his late wife, Attorney Monique Montgomery, were blessed with three children: Sarah, Dylan, and Tony II. His latest book shares a husband’s journey into patient advocacy.
Honey, I Need an Advocate
A personal account of a husband’s journey alongside his wife through illness, this book explores love, faith, perseverance, and patient advocacy. It offers another way to reflect on the importance of speaking up for someone you love.
Signed copies are available only through Pastor Tony’s website. Kindle, paperback, and hardcover editions are available on Amazon.
Book purchase is optional. Legacy Forum #4 is free to attend.
Preparedness, conversation & connection.
Sharron Williams
BSN, RNSharing practical healthcare preparedness strategies to help caregivers organize essential information and plan for continuity of care.
Ebony Travis-Tichenor
MBA, PHRGuiding the conversation, connecting ideas, and facilitating audience questions and discussion.
Be ready when care is interrupted.
Our dedicated 20-minute preparedness segment focuses on essential medical information and planning for healthcare disruptions during emergencies.
Organize
Keep medical records, medication lists, and essential health information together and accessible.
Prepare
Create an emergency medication and healthcare information packet to support care when routines change.
Plan
Consider continuity of care and how to communicate with healthcare providers during emergencies.
Your Healthcare Advocacy Toolkit
These resources will be added to the Golden Circle of Care Hub to help you prepare for appointments, organize health information, and plan for continuity of care.
Healthcare Advocacy Resources
- Medical Appointment Planner
- Medication & Health Tracking Log
- Questions to Ask Your Healthcare Provider Guide
- Medical Records Organizer
- Patient Rights & Advocacy Resource Guide
Prepared Caregiver Corner™ Resources
- Emergency Medical Information Organizer
- Continuity of Care Checklist
- Emergency Healthcare Communication Plan
Coming to the Golden Circle of Care Hub. These toolkit resources will join our growing collection of caregiving education, preparedness tools, and support resources.
Who should attend? Family caregivers, older adults, adult children, spouses and care partners, healthcare professionals, home care providers, and community organizations and advocates.
Take the next step toward confident advocacy.
Join us for practical guidance, meaningful conversation, and resources to help you navigate healthcare for yourself and the people you love.