The Community Pediatrics Training Initiative (CPTI) improves child health by preparing pediatricians to be effective leaders and advocates through development of authentic community partnerships to impact systems and policy change for children. We do this by providing faculty development opportunities and resources, strengthening advocacy training and curricula, and encouraging collaboration across institutions to accelerate advocacy on behalf of children.

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CPTI Pillar Workgroups

Join one or more of our workgroups helping prepare pediatricians at all stages of their career to be effective leaders and advocates. We do this through improving faculty development opportunities, enhancing community partnerships, and learning how to work toward policy change on the local level.

To learn more, please review the workgroup pages below or contact us at [email protected]. 

Leadership & Career Development

The Leadership & Career Development Pillar of the Community Pediatrics Training Initiative (CPTI) focuses on highlighting the importance of personal workforce development through the tracking of advocacy related work.

Curriculum & Assessment

The Curriculum and Assessment Pillar of the Community Pediatrics Training Initiative (CPTI) focuses on identifying cohesive curricular resources for community health and advocacy residency programs across the country.

Networks & Collaboratives

The Networks and Collaborative Pillar of the Community Pediatrics Training Initiative (CPTI) focuses on supporting students, residents, and faculty in working collaboratively towards the goal of advancing children’s health through community level advocacy.

Resources and Tools

Community Pediatrics and Advocacy Curriculum (CPAC)

This peer-reviewed tool allows users to map community health and advocacy curricula to competencies and milestones. By doing so, program leaders can identify strengths and weaknesses in their training programs and demonstrate the value of their curricula in terms of assessment of competence towards the milestones.
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Project Planning Tool

This tool engages residents in a guided learning activity to gain the skills necessary to plan, implement and evaluate a child health advocacy project.
Project Planning Tool AAMC Article

Advocacy Guide and Training Materials

These materials contain tips, tools, and recent real world examples to help pediatricians of all backgrounds create positive and lasting change on behalf of children.
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CPTI Advocacy Portfolio

The CPTI Advocacy Portfolio is a tool that will allow faculty to organize and catalogue their work in engagement with Communities / Community Based Organizations, Leadership, and Health Systems, Legislative / Policy and Media Advocacy. This advocacy portfolio can be used as both a formative and a summative tool, helping create a roadmap for faculty to document the success and impact of their work in the community health and advocacy realm. Faculty can use the advocacy portfolio to both guide their work, and to tell their story.
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Gra​​​n​​t​​s​

Learn more about the current advocacy training grants and visting professorship grants offered by CPTI.

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6 Drivers of Success for Community Health and Advocacy Education in Pediatrics

Explore these drivers to consider the strengths of your program and find resources for further development.​​​​

Identifying and Strengthening Faculty Champions

Mentorship is important to enhance key knowledge and skills necessary for faculty leadership.

Building Effective Teams

Discover the reasons why effective team building is so valuable for program success.

Community Partnerships

Developing community partnerships goes hand in hand with community health and advocacy training.

Cultivate Support from Leadership

Enhance institutional and departmental support​.

Curriculum and Educational Activities

Advance educational activities for resident competency​​​.

Build Capacity and Sustainability

Build capacity and resources to sustain my program​​.

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Last Updated

05/15/2025

Source

American Academy of Pediatrics