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State Advocacy Web Links
The following is a list of Web links to sites often used by AAP state goverment affairs staff. While not an exhaustive list of all of the state government resources available on the Web, you may find these resources useful to your advocacy efforts.

State Government and State Law—Sources for Information

50 State Governments 50 States and Capitals

Cornell University Law School State Law Pages

FindLaw: State Resources


State Legislatures Web Sites from the National Conference of State Legislatures provides links to state legislature Web pages. (Be sure to visit and research the Web pages of state legislatures to track bills, and see what issues your legislators are focusing on and research various state agencies engaged in activities related to child health and well-being, such as departments of public health, education, insurance, public safety, etc).
 
Associations of State and Local Government Officials
Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP)

The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)

Council of State Governments (CSG)


Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE)

Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) 

National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG)

National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO)

National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD)

National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)

National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD)


National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO)

National Association of State Medicaid Directors (NASMD)

National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD)

National Association of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD)

National Caucus of Black State Legislators (NCBSL)    

National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)

National Governors Association (NGA)

National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators (NHCSL)


State Legislative Leaders Foundation (SLLF)

State & Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association (STIPDA)

US Conference of Mayors (USCM)

Women in Government (WIG)

State Government and Health Policy News Sources
Governing

Health Affairs

NCSL Grasscatcher

NCSL Thicket


PubMed

State Legislatures Magazine

Stateline

StateNet Capitol Journal

Health Professional Organizations
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (AAAAI)

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)

American Academy of Dermatology (AAD)

American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

American Academy of Neurology (AAN)


American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS)


American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)

American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)

American College of Physicians (ACP)

American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG)

American College of Surgery (ACS)

American Medical Association (AMA)

Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs (AMSPDC)

American Nurses Association (ANA) 

American Osteopathic Association (AOA)

American Public Health Association (APHA)

American Psychiatric Association (APA)

American Psychological Association (APA)

American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)

Emergency Nurses Association (ENA)  

National Association of School Nurses (NASN)  

National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA)

National Medical Association (NMA)

Child and Health Advocacy Organizations
Action for Healthy Kids

All Kids Count

American Diabetes Association (ADA)  

American Heart Association (AHA)

American Hospital Association (AHA)


American Lung Association (ALA)

American School Health Association (ASHA)

ATV Safety

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Center for Adolescent Health Law (CAHL)   

Children’s Defense Fund (CDF)

Center for Effective Discipline (CED)

Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)

The Children’s Partnership (TCP)


Child Welfare League of America (CWLA)  

Community Voices

Cover the Uninsured Week

E Health Initiative (eHI)


Every Child By Two (ECBT)

Every Child Matters (ECM)

Express Lane Eligibility (ELE)

Families USA

Family Voices

The Future of Children

Governor’s Highway Safety Association (GHSA)

Home Safety Council (HSC)

Immunization Action Coalition (IAC)

Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol-Free

Mental Health America (MHA)

National Alliance for Hispanic Health (NAHH)

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)

National Association of State Board of Education (NASBE)

National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI)

National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)

National Association of the Counsel of Children (NACC)


National Coalition on Health Care (NCHC)

National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF)

National Emergency Management Associations (NEMA)

National Health Law Program (NHeLP)

National Immigration Law Center (NILC)

National Partnership for Women and Families (NPWF)

National Rural Health Association (NRHA)

National Safety Council (NSC)

National School Board Association (NSBA)

National Transportation Safety (NTS)

North American Counsel on Adoptable Children (NACAC)

Personal Watercraft Industry Association (PWIA)

Safe Kids

State Health Policy Centers
Academy Health

Alliance for Health Reform


The Catalyst Center

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)

Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS)

Center for Studying Health System Change (CSHSC)

George Washington University Department of Health Policy

Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF)


Guttmacher Institute State Center


Healthy States - Council on State Government

Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured

Maternal and Child Health Policy Research Center (MCHPRC)


Mathematica Policy Research

National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP)

National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)

Rockefeller Institute of Government

State Coverage Initiatives (SCI)
  

American Lung Association's State Legislative Action Tobacco Issues (SLATI)

Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center (UIHPC)
 

Child Health Foundations
Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF)  

The Commonwealth Fund

David and Lucille Packard Foundation


Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)

Pew Charitable Trust (PCT)

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)

Federal Government
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR)

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Office of Minority Health (OMH)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Insurance, Business, and Quality Organizations
America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)

The Joint Commission

National Business Group on Health (NBGH)

National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA)

Federal Advocacy
Visit the AAP Federal Affairs Update page if you are working on issues being considered at the federal level.




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