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AACAP Legislative Conference

Save the Date for the 2024 AACAP Legislative Conference!

The 2024 AACAP Legislative Conference will be held April 15-16, 2024 at the Hilton Washington DC National Mall The Wharf.
This is a key opportunity for AACAP members of all career-levels to meet with Members of Congress and their legislative staff to promote children’s mental health and efforts to support the psychiatric workforce.




Learning Center

  • Sample Follow Up Email to Congressional Staff

  • 2023 AACAP Legislative Conference Virtual Orientation - May 1, 2023

    2023 Legislative Conference Briefing Slide Deck (PDF)


    Role Play, Policy Review, and Lobbyists' Insights Skits


    The Contrarian Staffer: Supporting DEI


    The Distracted Staffer: Building the Workforce


    The Perfect Meeting: Improving Access

     


    Agenda

    Issue Briefs

    • Improve Access to Children’s Behavioral Mental Health Care: Accessing Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists
      • H.R. 2412, Helping Kids Cope Act
      • S. 923, Better Mental Health Care for Americans Act
    • Improving Equity in Access to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
      • H.R. 1475, Pursuing Equity in Mental Health Act  (117th Congress)
      • S. 1795, Pursuing Equity in Mental Health Act (117th Congress)
    • Increasing the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Workforce
      • S. 462, Mental Health Professionals Workforce Shortage Loan Repayment Act 
      • S. 665, Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act

    Background Information and Documents

    • Advocacy Best Practices
    • Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists: Experts in Children’s Mental Health
    • State Workforce Maps

    • Social Media Toolkit
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    • Capitol Hill Map
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    • Where to Eat on Capitol Hill

    • House Energy & Commerce Committee Members
    • House Ways & Means Committee Members
    • Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee Members
    • Senate Finance Committee Members
    • Who’s Who in a Congressional Member’s Office

    • AACAP Response to Senate HELP Request for Information on Workforce Shortages
    • AACAP Response to DEA’s Proposed Rule for Telemedicine Prescribing of Controlled Substances
    • AACAP Response to DEA’s Proposed Rule on Expansion of Induction of Buprenorphine via Telemedicine Encounter

    • SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program 

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