A trainer participating in a 26-county collaborative to provide services and address needs for low-income families in primarily rural Northern California learned the Right Question Strategy (RQS) in a one-time training, then brought it to her community of Camptonville, California. A single mother of three, receiving welfare and seeking employment opportunities, learned the strategy and went on to teach it to other women facing similar challenges. They used the RQS for their job searches and to prepare for meetings with caseworkers. The group successfully advocated for the county CalWORKs program to help one woman buy the car she needed to get to work (it had been considered an “asset” that would make her ineligible for additional benefits). The women then began to use the RQS to advocate on a higher level. They prepared and delivered testimony about welfare policy at a public meeting with their congressperson, U.S. Representative Wally Herger (R-Yuba County), who chaired the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, handling welfare reform at a federal level. The mother who became a trainer noted, “…If you learn to speak your own voice and use it well and be confident it’s all the better, it helps the democratic process along. It’s important because your voice can be heard. It’s important because in having your voice heard you’re not forgotten, you’re not left aside.”