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Affinity Group Updates!

Do you want to join or lead an Affinity Group? Where are our Affinity Groups today since we first launched them in 2025? Some have grown and evolved. Some are ready to sunset. And new ones have emerged as a result of membership demand. We are sharing a few updates below, but please be sure to visit the individual Affinity Group pages as well!

The Resident Education Affinity Group has changed its name to the Trainee Education Affinity Group! (This means the "magic word" to enter the site has also changed.)
The following Affinity Groups are sunsetting; however, if you are interested in rejuvenating and leading the group, please reach out to the Complex Care and Disability SIG Co-Chairs.
- - Social Determinants and Care Integration
  - Home Care
  - Emergency Care of Children with Complex Needs
The following Affinity Groups are recruiting new co-chairs.
- Behavioral Health
- Practical Practices in Complex Care

PAS 2025!

We wanted to provide some updates about the Academic Pediatric Association’s Complex Care and Disability Special Interest Group (SIG) open chair positions and our upcoming meeting at The Pediatric Academic Society meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Sunday April 27 2025.

Accepting Complex Care and Disability SIG Co-Chair Nominations:

We have 2 open co-chair positions and are actively recruiting to fill both spots. Ideally, we would like to fill at least one of the co-chair positions with a person with lived experience as an individual with disabilities or a family member/caregiver.

Please include in your bio/statement of interest your experience with pediatric complex care and disabilities and how you think it would make you an effective Complex Care and Disability Co-chair.

Apply here to be a SIG Co-Chair .Applications are now open and due by March 17th. You must be a dues-paying Academic Pediatric Association (APA) member to apply.

To learn more about  APA SIGs click here!

Please contact any of the current co-chairs with questions about the SIG or this opportunity.

The Pediatric Academic Society (PAS) meeting in Honolulu, HI on April 24-28, 2025, is just around the corner. The Complex Care and Disability SIG will be held on Sunday April 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM at PAS.

Please save the date!

Cara Coleman JD, MPH and Carolyn Foster MD MS will be presenting “Access to Home and Community-Based Services: Challenges and Advocacy Opportunities". We will discuss recommendations including those from this Issue Brief: “Coleman C, Grusin S, Foster C. Providing Equitable Medical Care for Children at Home: Federal Law and State Policy. Providing Equitable Medical Care for Children at Home: Federal Law and State Policy - Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health.

Participants will have the chance to identify actionable advocacy opportunities within our health systems and states. We will also hold a small business meeting.

Please check the PAS website for additional program details.

More details to follow as the conference draws near including complex care and disability content at PAS, and networking events including for trainees. Please also tell us if you have suggestions for a lunch, dinner or coffee meet-up location in Honolulu for our SIG members!

Sincerely,

The Current Complex Care and Disability SIG Co-Chairs: Charu Sehgal, Kathleen Huth, Emily Goodwin, Ruchi Kaushik, Meg Comeau

Welcome to the Complex Care Webpage!

The vision for this page is to provide a home page open to the general public with more detailed and specific pages accessible by "magic word" to members of the APA Complex Care and Disability SIG and Complex Care list serv.

It will both store SIG Content as well as link to content generated by individual users. Suggested uses include sharing educational resources, clinical pathways, documentation templates, complex care program information, etc.

Complex Care and Disability SIG and/or Complex Care list serv members, please post a message to the APA Community or email the list serv if you are having difficulty accessing an Affinity Groups page or using the "magic word."