Strategy 2.2
Suggest appropriate policy revisions at local and state levels.
Tactic: Utilize Children’s Hospital Colorado clinical and government affairs expertise to vet
potential policy and advocacy recommendations and act upon those recommendations.
Children’s Colorado will utilize the Child Health Champions network to push action alerts
when appropriate. For example, an action alert was sent to the network in March 2016 to
Colorado Senator Michael Bennet, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and
Pensions Committee, to include infant and early childhood provisions in mental health
reform legislation.
Tactic: Participate in community efforts to develop policy recommendations for broadbased policy change in Colorado. An example of Children’s Hospital Colorado partnered
with the Colorado Children’s Campaign (CCC) and Colorado Children’s Healthcare
Access Program (CCHAP) to develop an early childhood policy brief “Young Minds
Matter: Supporting Children’s Mental Health Through Policy Change” (August, 2015).
Setting/Delivery Mechanism
Community – policy work and development at the local, city, state and
federal levels.
Provider – practices, programs and approaches to further the health and
wellbeing of all children.
Internal Resources
OO Children’s
OO Child
Hospital Colorado leadership
Health Advocacy Institute (CHAI)
OO Government
OO Child
Relations
Health Champions
OO Representatives
and thought leaders for broad representation from multiple
Hospital divisions and departments
External Partners
Partners will be defined based on targeted communities for intervention. Current partners
include but are not limited to:
OO Colorado
Children’s Campaign
OO Colorado
Children’s Healthcare Access Program
OO Colorado
Association for Infant Mental Health
OO Essentials
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