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Call for Proposals—Applications due July 31, 2009
2010 CATCH Planning Funds and CATCH Resident Funds Grants - For the 16th consecutive year, the American Academy of Pediatrics is offering pediatricians and pediatric residents an opportunity to put their ideas into action by taking advantage of the funding available through the CATCH Program. The CATCH mission and the focus of the grants are to enable pediatricians to plan innovative community-based child health initiatives that increase access to medical homes or specific health services not otherwise available. For more information, visit http://www.aap.org/catch/planninggrants.htm or http://www.aap.org/catch/residentgrants.htm, mailto:catch@aap.org, or call 800/433-9016, ext 7632.

CATCH Program Issue Briefs
To better understand the experiences of grantees and provide additional support and guidance to future applicants and grantees, the CATCH Program reviewed application and final report materials from eighteen 2004 CATCH Implementation Funds program grant recipients. Three issue briefs were developed from this review: Strategies for Addressing Challenges, Forming and Maintaining Effective CATCH Partnerships,and Bringing Community Pediatrics to Life. The issue briefs are now available at http://www.aap.org/commpeds/tech.html#tools.

Building Your Medical Home Toolkit
Brought to you by the AAP/MCHB National Center for Medical Home Implementation, the Building Your Medical Home Toolkit supports the primary care pediatrician's development and improvement of a pediatric medical home. It also prepares a pediatric office to apply for and potentially meet the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Physician Practice Connections Patient Centered Medical Home (PPC-PCMH) Recognition Program requirements. The toolkit can help a practice assess and improve its medical home capacity with resources and downloadable tools organized into six building blocks that provide guidance for implementation. For more information, visit http://www.pediatricmedhome.org.

The 2009 AAP Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence Dissemination of Best Practices to Promote Smoke Free Homes Conference was held February 25-27 in Anaheim, CA. Smoke Free Homes is a comprehensive, national initiative to train pediatric clinicians in brief, effective methods to reduce children's secondhand smoke exposure through parental smoking cessation and harm reduction counseling.
View conference materials here.
The Richmond Center provides child health clinicians with the education, training, funding and resources needed to effectively intervene to protect children from the harmful effects of tobacco/secondhand smoke. For more information, please visit http://www.aap.org/richmondcenter/index.html.

Future of Pediatrics Conference Audio/Visual Recordings Now Available
Were you unable to attend the American Academy of Pediatrics/American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians Future of Pediatrics conference in Anaheim this February? Or, maybe you did attend, and you would like to share the information with others or review the content of the educational sessions at home. A complete synchronized audio/visual recording of the conference, which includes all the PowerPoint presentations from the educational sessions, is available on CD-ROM or flash drive.
To view a sample before you purchase, visit http://www.dcprovidersonline.com/aap/?event_id=AAP1.
To place your order for a CD-ROM or flash drive, visit www.dcporder.com/aap.

Medical Home Implementation Teleconference Series 2009
The American Academy of Pediatrics is hosting a free five part CME teleconference series to provide child health professionals with practical strategies for implementing medical home in practice. These informative calls will be led by nationally recognized experts with the goal of educating participants about the value of the family-centered primary care medical home for all children and youth, the availability of practical tools and resources, and will provide strategies for improving care and increasing patient/family satisfaction. The series began in March and will end in June 2009. More information can be found at: http://www.medicalhomeinfo.org/training/archives.html.

Celebrating 20th Anniversary with 10 New Grantees!

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Healthy Tomorrows Program. Ten new grants were awarded by the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) on March 1, 2009. Grant recipients will receive up to $50,000 in funding over a period of five years to execute their community-based projects. Grant descriptions can be viewed here. For more information about HTPCP, visit http://www.aap.org/commpeds/htpcp/index.html.

Evaluating Your Community-based Program Part II
Putting Your Evaluation Plan to Work
New resource: This follow-up publication to "Part I: Designing Your Evaluation" takes the evaluation plan you developed for your community-based health initiative from the planning to the implementation stage. The guide goes through steps in a workbook format to help you decide how to measure progress on your objectives and collect, analyze, and present the resulting data meaningfully and efficiently. To download a copy, click here.

Community Pediatrics Self-Assessment - The COCP has designed a self-assessment to help practicing pediatricians assess where they are in relation to community pediatrics activities as recommended in the COCP policy statement, "The Pediatrician's Role in Community Pediatrics." For more information about the Community Pediatrics Self-Assessment, click here.

Community Pediatrics Education & Training Special Interest Group
Pediatric Education in Community and Office Settings (Starter Kit for Community Preceptors) is offered to the practicing pediatrician who wants to provide a hands-on experience in an office setting for a medical student or resident. The Starter Kit provides practical tips, information, resources, and activities for pediatricians, residency program directors, and clerkship directors to use at every stage of community-based training for students and residents. The tool includes information on developing your office-based teaching program, your academic portfolio, and a variety of topical resources for quick reference. To access this document, please visit the Practice Management page.

For information on additional AAP community pediatrics programs and
general community pediatrics resources, please visit our Web site at http://www.aap.org/commpeds.

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