Children & Disasters Newsletter
September 13, 201825th CATCH Anniversary and Bron Appreciation Video
November 5, 2018
- Be on alert to contact your Washington legislators. Want to be a member that can be alerted and could take 2 minutes to call when an important action needs to be taken? Email Executive Director, Meredith Kennedy, at mkennedy@aapca3.org to be added to the Advocacy Alert Contact
- Join our bimonthly Chapter Advisory Committee meetings. This is a great, informal way to hear from chapter members involved in our ID and school health committees; find out about federal and state legislation that impacts children and pediatricians; hear from our child psychiatry and county health officer colleagues; find out about programs sponsored by our chapter like Reach Out and Read; and meet other San Diego pediatricians. Our next meeting is on Thursday, December 13th at 6:30pm at the AAP-CA3 office in Mission Valley.
- Join our Early Career Physicians (ECP) group (any age welcome) as they participate in a variety of community service events. Contact Maya Kumar, MD, AAP-CA3’s Chapter ECP representative @ m8kumar@ucsd.edu.
- Join our Infectious Disease committee to hear the experts from AAP-CA3, the community and Rady Children’s discuss ID topics of interest to general pediatricians. Our next meeting is on Monday, January 28th at 6:30 at the AAP-CA3 offices. Email Chapter Executive Director, Meredith Kennedy, at mkennedy@aapca3.org for more information.
- Join Resistbot. Write Congress in under 2 minutes by texting “RESIST” to 50409 or message Resistbot on Facebook. It’ll find out who represents you in Congress, & deliver your message to them in less than 2 minutes. No downloads or apps required. Visit https://resistbot.io/ for more information.
- Share messages on Twitter and Facebook found in the #VoteKids Toolkit.
- Update your social media profile picture now through November 6th to show others that you #VoteKids.
- Visit our Twibbon page for profile picture frames and Facebook cover photos.
- Take AAP Charlie with you as you advocate for #VoteKids. Click here to download an AAP Charlie sign. Don’t forget to show us where he’s been! Post pictures to social media using #VoteKids.
- Find Your Legislator at https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials and email them.
- Check out our programs on the chapter website at: aapca3.org.
- Join the chapter! First year for new members is free; annual dues are $160. Our biweekly newsletter, Coastal Currents, is sent electronically to all chapter members.
- Attend our annual chapter family picnic in Fall 2019 at Petco Park, stay tuned for more information.
- If you are interested in CA state legislation, follow the AAP-CA list of bills at: http://aap-ca.org/bill
- Join us for a legislative day in Sacramento or the AAP Legislative Day in Washington.
- AAP-CA3 Legislative Day (all 4 CA AAP Chapters) in Sacramento. Date for spring 2019 available soon.
- If you’re a member of the San Diego County Medical Society, join the CMA Legislative Day in Sacramento in April 2019- http://www.cmanet.org for information.
- National AAP Legislative Conference, April 2019 in Washington DC. #LegCon
- Great! The chapter exists to serve its members – we would love to support your efforts. Email Chapter Executive Director, Meredith Kennedy, MPH, at mkennedy@aapca3.org and she can point you in the right direction.
- Consider applying for a CATCH grant. CATCH grants are local community projects supported by the national AAP. For more information, contact our chapter CATCH facilitators, Lase Ajayi, MD at laseajayi@gmail.com or Emily Fletcher, MD at fletcher@gmail.com.
