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

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2023 AACAP Legislative Conference Virtual Orientation - May 1, 2023

2023 Legislative Conference Briefing Slide Deck (PDF)

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Role Play, Policy Review, and Lobbyists' Insights Skits


The Contrarian Staffer: Supporting DEI


The Distracted Staffer: Building the Workforce


The Perfect Meeting: Improving Access

 

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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
  • Representatives' Twitter Handles
  • Senators' Twitter Handles


• Capitol Hill Map
• House Office Building Map
• Senate Office Building Map
• 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 

AACAP Legislative Conferences Archive and Resources