WASHINGTON CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDI
4616 25th Ave NE STE 594, Seattle, WA 98105 wcaap.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: We champion the health and well-being of children, adolescents, and families through advocacy, education, and partnership.

WA-CHIP1. Increase clinics use of reminder/recall strategies and reduce missed opportunities in clinic to improve adolescent immunization rates. a. Two cohorts reached almost 22,000 adolescents. b. 7 out of 9 clinics met their goal of reducing missed opportunities by 20%. 2. Raise parent awareness of importance to vaccinate during pandemic and via a public and clinic-facing campaign and community outreach. a. Disseminated materials to nearly 100 organizations. b. Mailings reached more than 100,000 families. 3. Improve flu vaccination rates and adolescent vaccine catch up in S. King County. a. Two S. King County clinics administered 44 flu vaccinations and 20 catch up vaccinations.

First Year Families1.Lead a learning collaborative in systematic and reliable perinatal mood disorder screening and connection for parents to services in 6 pediatric primary care clinics in Pierce and Yakima counties. 2.Convene a steering committee of cross sector/state-level stakeholders to understand system barriers and collaborate to garner future investments to improve the health of new parents and young children. 3.Increasing post-partum coverage of Medicaid from 2 to 12 months. 4.Educate providers on the states Paid Family & Medical Leave program.

Membership Engagement & Advocacy 1. Covid-19 Community Pediatric Meetings a.WCAAP held meetings twice weekly for nearly 3 months (twice monthly thereafter) as the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded March-June to provide access to infectious disease expertise and to share best practices among community pediatricians statewide. Attendance was 50-100 per webinar in the first months of the pandemic and 25-50 in the fall and winter months.2.Provider Well-Being a.In the first few months of the pandemic, we offered a provider well-being series for 6 weeks led by a pediatrician trained in mindfulness. 3.Advocacy Day This annual event was held in January 2020 with 97 pediatric providers in attendance from 29 different legislative districts, resulting in meetings with more than 60 legislators and contact with every legislators office in Olympia. Continued on Schedule O.....

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