PEDIATRIC RESIDENT ADVOCACY TRAINING DAY
wisconsin chapter

Each year WIAAP sponsors a Pediatric Resident Advocacy Training Day, highlighting community and policy advocacy and skills needed for legislative action.  Resident advocacy projects are typically highlighted either during the session or via poster presentation.

Contact us for more information. 

Past Sessions:

March 23, 2011 - University of Wisconsin-Madison Pediatrics, Legislative Advocacy

The online resources for this year's conference are bookmarked at:

http://www.delicious.com/navsaria/Advocacy.  The ones related to "Data-driven Advocacy" also carry the additional "Data" tag.  The "Federal Update" items are also linked there, through the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Reform links.

Many heard from their legislators that the best place to have their voice heard regarding protecting children in any changes to Medicaid or Badgercare was to participate in the public forums coming up on the Governor's Budget.  Those dates were announced (scroll to the bottom of the page):

http://legis.wisconsin.gov/lfb/jfc/schedule.htm

2010 - Marshfield Clinic Pediatrics Program, Issues in Rural Pediatrics

2009 - Medical College of Wisconsin Pediatrics, Environmental Effects on Health