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CHPC/CHWA ADVOCACY. PROACTIVE & REACTIVE. FOCAL ISSUES AND RESPONSE PROTOCOL. PROACTIVE ADVOCACY. CHPC/CHWA FOCAL ISSUES. PROACTIVE: THE ISSUES. Professional licensing Local WIB reforms Expedited allied health training Collaboration incentives Increasing diversity. PROACTIVE: CLS FOCUS.
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PROACTIVE & REACTIVE • FOCAL ISSUES AND RESPONSE PROTOCOL
PROACTIVE ADVOCACY • CHPC/CHWA FOCAL ISSUES
PROACTIVE: THE ISSUES • Professional licensing • Local WIB reforms • Expedited allied health training • Collaboration incentives • Increasing diversity
PROACTIVE: CLS FOCUS • Connected to priority of expedited allied health training • Great sense of urgency • Action steps: • Media Advocacy (mid-late January 2012) • Institutional Policy Advocacy (late January through March 2012) • Legislative Policy Advocacy (TBD, possibly February and March 2012)
PROACTIVE: CLS MEDIA ADVOCACY • Create greater awareness • Demonstrate importance • Showcase narratives that lead to action • Quality of care • Jobs
PROACTIVE: CHPC/CHWA ACTIONS • Provide local examples, such as spokespeople including: • Health care workers and administrators who can point to the need • Educators who are training students and placing people in jobs • Students who have experienced challenges • Share data such as: • Research demonstrating integral role of CLS • Data showing number of CLS jobs available but going unfilled • Serve as spokespeople and authors for: • Local media outreach efforts • Op-eds and letters to the editor • Social media that creates an echo chamber
CONTACT INFORMATION • Erin Hart, ehart@fenton.com • 415.901.0111 • Kevin Barnett, kevinpb@pacbell.net