Forming Partnerships

• Chapter/State Resources
• Community Resources

AAP Chapter Offices
This site provides a complete listing of AAP Chapters with direct links to chapter Web sites.

Early Childhood Comprehensive System (ECCS)
The purpose of the State Early Childhood Comprehensive Initiative is to support states in planning, developing, and implementing collaborations and partnerships that support families and communities in their development of children who are healthy and ready to learn at school entry. In 2003, 48 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Republic of Palau were awarded grants to develop Comprehensive Early Childhood Systems-building plans. Grantees are now in the process of completing plans and beginning implementation activities.

Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT)
EPSDT service is Medicaid's comprehensive and preventive child health program for individuals under the age of 21. EPSDT was defined by law as part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 (OBRA '89) legislation and includes periodic screening, vision, dental, and hearing services.

National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC)
The National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center supports the national implementation of the early childhood provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Their mission is to strengthen systems at all levels to ensure that children (birth through 5) with disabilities and their families receive and benefit from high quality, culturally appropriate and family centered supports and services. Also includes list of Part C and Part B coordinators for each state. To learn more about early intervention, and strategies to access their services, click here.

State Health Departments
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) provides a complete list of states and territories with direct links to state health departments.

AAP- Grants Database
This database archives previously funded Community Pediatrics grant projects, including those funded through the CATCH Program, the Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program, the Community Pediatrics Training Initiative, and the Healthy People 2010 Chapter Grants. The database is searchable by seven major categories: target population, health topic, state/territory, project activity, AAP program, AAP district, and project year.

CFLeads
CFLeads (formerlly the Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth) is a network of over 200 community foundations in communities across the United States dedicated to securing improved conditions for children, youth and families.

Commonweath Fund—A Practical Guide for Healthy Development, Module 6: Linking With Your Community
Focuses on the important step of linking your practice and patients to the resources available in your community.

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
The Center for Health Professions at the University of California, San Francisco, has developed the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) Program. It is a nonprofit organization that promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. The site features strategies for working in partnerships with communities, service learning projects in the education of health professionals, and resources for working with communities.

Community Pediatrics Self-Assessment
The Community Pediatrics Self-Assessment was designed 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.

Community Pediatrics Teleconferences: "Identifying Assets in Your Community" Teleconference
This teleconference provides information on how child health community-based projects can identify assets in communities and individuals. The presentation covers how to identify and work with associations and institutions in the community, how parents are partners in this process, and where to find resources for asset-based community development. In addition, two current community-based projects will discuss their experience in identifying assets, one at the community level and the other at the individual level. A question/answer session is included at the end of this Web-based teleconference.

The Community Toolbox
The Tool Box provides over 7,000 pages of practical information to support your work in promoting community health and development. The focus is on specific practical skills, such as conducting a meeting or participatory evaluation, that help create conditions for health and human development. 

New Community Tools for Improving Child Health: A Pediatrician's Guide to
Local Associations 
This document, created by the Asset-Based Community Development Institute and the CATCH Program, was created to provide pediatricians with information on how to identify and engage community resources to address needs in the community.

NICHQ's Improving Cultural Competency in Children's Health Care Change Package
NICHQ developed a structured process to translate the abstract knowledge in the field of cultural competency into a package that can be used to drive change in clinical practice first in California and then throughout the nation. This has been done in partnership with project faculty drawn from the best experts, both academic and in the field; reviewing literature and materials; distilling the available knowledge into “good ideas, ready for use;” and then coupling the best ideas with measures of success.

The Pediatric Education in Community and Office Settings (Starter Kit for Community Preceptors)
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 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. Information is included on developing an office-based teaching program, academic portfolio, and a variety of topical resources for quick reference.