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ICAAP
Dear
ICAAP members and friends,
By now we are generally familiar with the
science of adverse childhood experiences (ACE), trauma, toxic stress, and
the impact of social determinants on the health of children, families,
and communities. At the same time, many of us, coming to terms with this
knowledge, are challenged with caring for these children, families, and
communities in the face of state budget cuts, delayed payments, lack of
knowledge of and/or access to resources, and increasing caseloads.
In addition, while many children deal with
toxic stress, trauma, and mental health complications, providers
routinely admit that they may not recognize these issues or report
feeling ill-prepared to address them within a clinic setting. Medical
professionals and providers across child-serving systems are overwhelmed
and losing confidence in their ability to be empathetic and emotionally
effective in this vital work. However, they may not recognize these
feelings as signs of their own compassion fatigue or vicarious trauma.
This occupational hazard can play a weighty role in how they are able to
respond to a child and family, especially those presenting with critical
challenges.
For these reasons, and recognizing the
American Academy of Pediatrics’ commitment to physician wellness, I urge ICAAP
members, partners, and friends to participate in ICAAP’s 8th Annual ABC
Conference, “Lives in the Balance: Caring for Children with Special
Needs, Their Families, Their Communities, and Ourselves in These
Precarious Times." The conference will be held on Friday,
November 17th at the Moraine Business and Conference Center in Palos
Hills, IL.
This conference routinely and explicitly
promotes cross-sector collaboration, relationship building, and
networking among multiple child-serving systems to more effectively
support the children and families we serve, and of equal importance, each
other. Since no single child-serving system can, in isolation, address
all the social, psychological, environmental, and economic needs of
children and families, the 8th Annual ABC Conference, participants
(including physicians, allied health providers, and community service
providers) will learn together. Participants will discover strategies for
navigating the current realities of service delivery in Illinois, advocating
for those we serve, and embracing an organizational culture that promotes
professional, family, and community self-care. I hope to see you on
Friday, November 17th. Thank you for all of the work that you do.
Sincerely,
Alison S. Tothy, MD FAAP
President
Illinois Chapter, American Academy of
Pediatrics
For more information about session
descriptions, continuing education designations, cost, and registration,
see the conference brochure, visit http://illinoisaap.org/conferences/abc/, or
contact Elise Groenewegen at egroenewegen@illinoisaap.com.
 *The Illinois Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics
designates this live activity for a maximum of 6 AMA PRA Category 1
Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with
the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Illinois Chapter, American Academy of
Pediatrics is accredited by the Illinois State Medical Society (ISMS) to
provide continuing medical education for physicians.
ProActive Kids
Foundation
ProActive Kids Foundation, a
501c3 nonprofit organization, has offered health programs for over 2000
children with overweight/obesity in Chicagoland for the past six years.
The Foundation is currently building a program model to license their
results-oriented 8-week program in order to expand into more communities.
To assist in the development of this new program model, ProActive Kids
seeks a pilot partner to help test the new offering, and offer direct
input into the final redesign beginning fall of 2017.
Participating organizations will need to
provide staff or volunteers to execute the program (a fitness and
nutrition professional and a mental health professional), as well as
market and recruit registrants. ProActive Kids will train your staff on
the course curriculum, data collection and reporting, and provide
handouts and equipment during the pilot phase.
If interested, please contact Nicki
Klinkhamer at ProActive Kids at 773/802-7005 or nicki.klinkhamer@proactivekids.org.
Two pilot positions are available and will be selected on a first come
first serve basis.
Centers for
Disease Control & Prevention
On October 17 from 11am-12pm,
the CDC and the National Vaccine Program Office (NVPO) will present a
webinar titled "Understanding and Addressing Parent Questions about
Childhood Vaccines: Insights from Recent Communications Research and
Practice." The webinar will discuss how providers can work with
parents refusing vaccines or request to delay. Presenters include experts
in the fields of pediatrics, health communications, and vaccine
confidence. Register here.
Chicago Tribune
Lurie Children’s Hospital
wants to add another 24 beds for cancer patients — the hospital’s latest
attempt to grow, even as other area hospitals pull back on their
pediatric offerings. The hospital has filed an application with the state
to double its intensive care unit beds for children with cancer and blood
disorders, at a cost of $27 million. If the state approves the project,
Lurie’s total number of beds will jump from 336 to 360. READ
MORE
Dispatch Argus
One of the worst blizzards in
Chicago history gripped the city in the winter of 2011, and Spencer was
past her due date. Her obstetrician had offered to induce labor before
the storm hit, but Spencer declined. As she watched the snowdrifts devour
the vehicles on the road below, Spencer wondered if she should have
listened. Spencer was nearing 40, so she was keenly aware that her
pregnancy was high-risk by medical standards. Throughout her pregnancy,
she hadn’t been able to shake a foreboding that was so intense and so out
of character she didn’t even tell her husband about it. READ
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NBC News
It’s getting ugly out there on
social media. Anti-vaccine activists are attacking pediatricians head to
head on Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms, and they’re
not hesitating to make their attacks personal. A few fed-up doctors are
fighting back, both online and, more recently, in the courts. READ
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ScienceDaily
Children with attention
deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) are likely to also have trouble with
touch (tactile) processing. A new study finds that children with ADHD
fare worse on several tests of tactile functioning, including reaction
time and detecting a weak stimulus on the skin (detection threshold). READ
MORE
CNN
The number of obese children
and adolescents rose to 124 million in 2016 — more than 10 times higher
than the 11 million classified as obese 40 years ago, in 1975. A further
213 million children and adolescents were overweight in 2016, finds a new
study published Tuesday in the Lancet. Looking at the broader
picture, this equated to roughly 5.6 percent of girls and 7.8 percent of
boys being obese last year. READ
MORE
News-Medical.net
Researchers aiming to
understand why autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are more common in boys
have discovered differences in a brain signaling pathway involved in
reward learning and motivation that make male mice more vulnerable to an
autism-causing genetic glitch. READ
MORE
TIME
There’s growing evidence that
exposure to air pollution can have a number of unhealthy consequences,
from cancer to heart disease and respiratory illnesses. In recent years,
researchers have also linked air pollution exposure to faster aging in
adult cells. In a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics, an
international group of researchers conducted the first detailed look at
pollution’s effect on developing babies in utero. READ
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