Advocacy Update: Halfway to the Finish Line!
Jennifer Donahue WCAAP Communications Manager The 2021 legislative session has passed the half-way mark! This week was the cutoff for bills to be passed from their original chamber to be […]
Advocacy Updates
Advocacy Day Recap!
Stacy Tarango, MD, FAAP Trustee, WCAAP Board On Advocacy Day 2021, I poured a cup of coffee, affixed my trusty “The Kids Sent Me” button to my sweater, and opened […]
Advocacy in 2021
Jennifer Donahue WCAAP Communications Manager If we’ve learned nothing else over the past year, we’ve certainly seen how the each one of us advocating for what we believe in has […]
Advocacy Update: We Need Your Help!
There’s just one month left before the 2021 session starts. The legislative session will be conducted mostly virtually with a very limited amount of in-person work happening in Olympia. It […]
Pediatricians for Climate Action
Alexandra Perkins, MD, MPH Pragya Rai, MD You can’t have healthy kids on a sick planet. There is overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is causing the planet to warm […]
Advocacy Update: WCAAP Is Covering the State
Jennifer Donahue Communications Manager, WCAAP Since June, WCAAP members have held Zoom meetings with 33 legislators from all corners of Washington, laying the groundwork for success in the 2021 legislative […]
Practices Needed to Inform Behavioral Health Advocacy
WCAAP is working with University of Washington’s Masters in Health Administration students to profile behavioral health care provided in primary care for children in Washington. The report will help advance […]
Gearing Up for the 2021 Legislative Session: Speak Up for Kids
Session Preview, Meet Your Legislators, Revenue Forecast, Get Out theVote 2021 Session Preview: October 15, 7:00PM The 2021 legislative session will look different from years past and WCAAP will be […]
WCAAP’s Interim Work and 2021 Legislative Session Goals
WCAAP’s legislative committee continues to work hard to improve health for ALL kids in Washington. During the interim, we have been meeting with legislators in committee members’ districts, urging legislators […]
Advocacy: Youth Vaping Prevention in the Time of COVID
Crystal Shen, MD, MPH, FAAP Co-chair, WCAAP Legislative Committee Reflecting back to this time last year in 2019, active investigation of cases of EVALI (e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung […]