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Technical Assistance
What is Technical Assistance?
The AAP Division of Community-based Initiatives
offers technical assistance (TA) to pediatricians and other
child health advocates interested in community-based child health
efforts. Examples include:
- Linking pediatricians and others with community-based child
health programs related to specific topics (eg, school health,
immunizations, rural health, etc)
- Helping to identify potential funding sources and local,
state, and national resources
- Assisting with program development, implementation, and evaluation
activities
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Community Pediatrics Teleconferences
For information on the new series of technical
assistance teleconferences sponsored by the Division of Community-Based
Initiatives, click
here. (http://www.aap.org/commpeds/resources/teleconferences.htm)
CATCH Issue Briefs:
 Strategies for Addressing Challenges
To strengthen the program, better understand the experience of grantees and provide additional support and guidance to future applicants and grantees, the CATCH program reviewed application and final report materials from eighteen 2003-2004 Implementation Grant recipients. Three issue briefs were developed from this review. The first issue brief, Implementing CATCH Programs: Strategies for Addressing Common Challenges, is now available. This brief addresses four common areas of challenge faced by CATCH grantees during the review process: partnerships, staffing, scheduling, and evaluation.
Forming and Maintaining Effective CATCH Partnerships
Challenges presented by community partnerships are further explored in the second issue brief. Many CATCH projects have benefited greatly from the knowledge, resources, insight and support of a wide variety of partnerships. In some cases, however, CATCH grantees have found working with their community partners to be quite challenging. A review of the partnership experiences of several past CATCH grantees suggests some particular strategies which grantees should carefully consider as they identify, recruit, engage and work with partner organizations. This issue brief, Forming and Maintaining Effective CATCH Partnerships: Lessons from the Field, describes these strategies and offers relevant examples shared by former CATCH grantees as models or cautions.
Bringing Community Pediatrics to Life
The third issue brief, outlines the recommendations developed by the Council on Community Pediatrics for pediatrician involvement in community pediatrics, and demonstrates how they can be implemented by CATCH projects. By providing examples of strategies and approaches used by pediatricians in practice, we hope to inspire others to implement and operationalize these recommendations through developing innovative, community-based initiatives of their own.
Technical Assistance
Tools:
A
Pediatrician's Guide to Proposal Writing
(www.aap.org/commpeds/resources/ProposalWriting.pdf)
A Pediatrician’s Guide to Proposal Writing is designed
primarily to assist AAP members and other child health advocates
in seeking funding from foundations and corporations. The guide
also provides a brief overview of government funding. The information
should serve as a starting point to help you identify appropriate
funding sources, guide you through the solicitation process,
and assist you in writing an effective proposal. Also included
are samples of cover letters, proposals, budgets, checklists,
and other resources.
Literacy
Promotion Technical Assistance
(www.aap.org/commpeds/resources/litpromo.pdf)
The Literacy Promotion Technical Assistance Booklet provides
a variety of resources for developing your own literacy promotion
efforts including current literacy initiatives, literacy-related
organizations, volunteer organizations, and sources of low-cost
books. The booklet features “Ten Things Every Pediatrician
Can Do to Promote Literacy” and the role of the pediatrician
in literacy promotion.
New
Community Tools for Improving Child Health: A Pediatrician's
Guide to Local Associations (www.aap.org/commpeds/resources/Peds_Guide_to_Local_Assoc.pdf)
The New Community Tools for Improving Child Health: A Pediatrician’s
Guide to Local Associations was developed through a partnership
between Northwestern University’s Asset-based Community
Development Institute (ABCD) and the AAP’s Community Access
to Child Health (CATCH) Program. This documents describes the
concept of community associations as conceptualized by the ABCD
model and advocates for the use of community associations in
the development of a successful community-based programs.
Community
Ideas for Improving Access
(http://www.aap.org/commpeds/schip/comm_idea.html)
The Reaching Children: Building Systems of Care Program compiled
outreach and enrollment ideas for the State Children's Health
Insurance Program (SCHIP) based on the experience of the fourteen
grant projects funded by the initiative.
This resource, Community Ideas for Improving Access, is intended
for pediatricians and others interested in child health to use
in developing methods to improve outreach and enrollment in
SCHIP and Medicaid.
In addition, the Division of Community-based Initiatives provides
information related to community-based child health topics. All
AAP materials are copyright protected. Please send questions regarding
how to obtain AAP materials to docbi@aap.org.
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Contact Us
Please contact the Division of Community-based Initiatives
at:
American Academy of Pediatrics
141 Northwest Point Blvd
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
Telephone: 847/434-7085
Email: docbi@aap.org
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