CPTI Funding Opportunities

HEALTHY ACTIVE LIVING GRANTS
Call for Proposals will open mid-July.

Research suggests that interventions that work directly with parents from the earliest stages of child development are effective ways to engage and support families in healthy active living. The emphasis of this grant opportunity is for project teams comprised of pediatric residency programs, AAP chapters, and community organizations to facilitate healthy active living by enhancing parenting skills to address modifiable behaviors (such as feeding, sleeping, and activity habits) that influence obesity and overweight in infants through preschool children.

Goals of this grant opportunity include:

• Creating effective and sustainable models for community-based approaches to obesity prevention
• Supporting pediatricians to work in their communities to address childhood obesity
• Strengthening the relationship between local AAP chapters and residency programs to maximize project sustainability and local dissemination
• Sharing accurate and consistent messages about healthy feeding, sleeping, and activity with parents, families, and community leaders to impact child health at the local level.

This grant program is generously supported by the MetLife Foundation

ADVOCACY TRAINING GRANTS
The 2013 Call for Proposals is closed.

The Advocacy Training Grants will support 4 pediatric faculty-resident pairs (8 people) to attend the AAP Legislative Conference on April 28-30, 2013 in Washington, DC. Each faculty-resident pair will be required to implement an educational activity on child advocacy in coordination with their local AAP chapter following the conference. Local chapters will receive up to $1,000 toward completing the educational activity in conjunction with the faculty-resident pairs.

2013 AAP Legislative Conference Brochure

LEONARD P ROME CATCH VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS
The 2013 Call for Proposals is closed.

The Community Pediatrics Training Initiative (CPTI) partners with The Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Program to offer the Leonard P Rome CATCH Visiting Professorship Program. The purpose of the Leonard P Rome CATCH Visiting Professorship Program is to promote advocacy for children and advance the field of community pediatrics. The program provides up to 8 accredited pediatric residency programs up to $4,500 each to fund a 2- or 3-day educational program focusing on the field of community pediatrics.

TRANSFORMING PEDIATRIC RESIDENCY TRAINING GRANTS PROGRAM
The Call for Proposals is closed.

The goal of this grant is to help pediatric residency programs improve their community pediatrics and advocacy training. Programs selected will create sustainable strategies to implement change to enhance residency training in community pediatrics and advocacy. Grants of up to $30,000 will be awarded on a competitive basis to 7 pediatric residency programs for activities to be completed over the course of 2 years. A pediatric faculty member with AAP national and chapter membership must lead the project. For more information please email CPTI staff or call 800/433-9016, ext 7397.The Transforming Pediatric Residency Training to Improve Care for Underserved Children grant program is generously supported by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation.

ADDITIONAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Resident Section Anne E. Dyson Child Advocacy Award
The American Academy of Pediatrics Resident Section Anne E. Dyson Child Advocacy Award, supported by an endowment from the Dyson Foundation, celebrates the outstanding efforts of pediatricians-in-training as they work in their communities to improve the health of children. Any resident-sponsored and/or resident led project that seeks to advocate on behalf of children is eligible for this award.

CATCH Resident Grant
The Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Resident Grant program supports pediatric residents in the planning and/or implementation of community-based child health initiatives. Grants of up to $3,000 are awarded twice each year on a competitive basis for pediatric residents to address the needs of children in their communities.