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In an effort to provide pediatric health care providers of Illinois with current, empirically-based resources, the Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics supports education, research, outreach, and advocacy projects. Together, these projects function to equip Illinois pediatric health care providers with best-practice tools that ensure high-level health care for Illinois children.
Bright Smiles from Birth
Bright Smiles from Birth is an ICAAP educational program that provides guidelines and support to Pediatricians and Family Physicians, Dentists, and families to make oral health a component of well child visits. [...more]
Enhancing Developmentally Oriented Primary Care
The Enhancing Developmentally Oriented Primary Care Project (EDOPC) is a resource for health care providers in Illinois. We work to improve the delivery and financing of preventive health and developmental services for children birth to age three. For more information about EDOPC, visit the EDOPC website at: http://www.edopc.net/ [...more]
Medical Home
Primary Care Pediatricians who practice as a Medical Home create a partnership with patients, with parents, and with specialists to assure that all of the medical and non-medical needs of the patient are met. Through this partnership the pediatric clinician can help the family/patient access and coordinate specialty care, educational services, and community resources. [...more]
Promoting Health
Promoting Health is ICAAP’s obesity prevention initiative. Its core project establishes links between practices and community nutrition and physical activity programs, and strengthens practices through practice quality improvement activities and continuing medical education in nutrition, health behaviors, comorbidities, and health behavior change training. [...more]
Reach Out and Read of Illinois
Reach Out and Read® prepares America’s youngest children to succeed in school by partnering with doctors to prescribe books and encourage families to read together. ROR is based on a model that trains doctors and nurses to advise parents about the importance of reading aloud and to give books to children at well-child visits from six months to five years of age, with a special focus on children growing up in poverty. Pediatric waiting rooms become literacy rich environments, oftentimes with volunteer readers, where parents and children learn about the pleasure and techniques of looking at books together. [...more]
Reaching Our Goals
The Reaching Our Goals: Immunization Provider Education (ROG) is an ICAAP educational program and initiative developed in collaboration with the Chicago Department of Public Heath and the Illinois Department of Public Health. The ROG program provides health care providers with the ability to develop and/or increase their knowledge, skills, and professional performance on childhood and adolescent immunizations to standards recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). The ROG program also provides support to pediatric health care providers on a variety of immunization initiatives including but not limited to: immunization financing and reimbursement, immunization advocacy leadership opportunities, and promotion of the Hepatitis B birth dose. [...more]
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Illinois Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics
1400 W. Hubbard, Suite 100
Chicago, IL 60642-8195
Voice 312/733-1026
Fax 312/733-1791
info@illinoisaap.com
