The "Advocacy Portfolio" is a tool to help you plan and keep track of
your advocacy experiences during your pediatric residency.
Over the course of the three years in training, it is expected that
you will become quite experienced and competent at individual patient
advocacy and that you will address all of the individual patient
advocacy components.
For the community, state, and federal advocacy components, it is
expected that you will choose and complete at least 6 of the
experiences listed by the end of residency training.
Please keep your advocacy portfolio up to date. For questions or
assistance in setting up an experience, page Dr. Diane Pappas at
961-4436 or email childadvocacy@virginia.edu.
Portfolio
Form
Individual Patient Advocacy
 Routinely
gather important data on the psychosocial and economic issues that
relate to a child's health (i.e. does the family have health insurance,
enough food, adequate shelter, other basic needs) in most patient
encounters in any clinical setting- Help a parent plan for an IEP meeting
- Help a parent plan for a 504 meeting/accommodations for their
child
- Help a parent coordinate care for a child among several different
agencies
- Attend an IEP or 504 meeting with a parent
- Write a letter to the school requesting services (special education
or 504) for a patient
- Identify and refer a family to the Child Health Advocacy Program
(CHAP)
- Identify and refer a family who is uninsured to our FAMIS
coordinator or social worker
- Prepare and present an advocacy morning report
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Community Advocacy
- Participate in the Intern Advocacy Project
- Participate in another Advocacy Project and describe the project
you are involved with
- Advocacy Elective
- Write a letter to the editor on an issue related to child
health
- Attend a local school board meeting
- Attend an Albemarle Board of Supervisors meeting
- Attend a Charlottesville City Council meeting
- Attend a session at the Charlottesville Albemarle Children’s Dental
Clinic
- Participate in a community health/education fair
- Attend a Virginia AAP meeting
- Attend an Ambulatory Pediatrics Association meeting
- ”Shadow” a legal aid attorney
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- Attend a meeting of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Obesity Task
Force
- Apply for an AAP CATCH grant
- Prepare and present an advocacy morning report
- Spend a session with the Blue Ridge Care Connection for
Children
- Spend a session with a CHIP worker
- Spend a session with the local health department
- Spend a session with a local Head Start class
- Spend a session with a special education class
- Speak to a community or school group on an issue related to child
health
- Read Driven to Distraction by Richard Hallowell
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State Advocacy
- Prepare and present an advocacy morning report
- Attend Virginia AAP Meeting
- Send an email/fax to your state legislator(s)
- Meet with your state legislator(s) or their staff
- Attend a Virginia General Assembly session or committee
meeting
- Track a piece of state legislation related to child health
- Attend a state forum on a child health issue
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Federal Advocacy
- Send an email/fax to your federal legislator(s)
- Meet with your federal legislator(s)/staff
- Track a piece of federal legislation related to child health
- Present an advocacy morning report
- Attend AAP Advocacy Institute
- Vote in a national election
- Spend a rotation with the AAP Department of Federal Affairs
- Join the AAP FAAN network
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