Advisory Council

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is a 501 non-profit professional association in the United States dedicated to facilitating psychiatric care for children and adolescents.

The AAP is a nonprofit, professional membership association representing more than 67,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical sub-specialists, and pediatric surgical specialists. Academy members and staff are dedicated to the overall AAP mission of attaining optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.

ACEP was founded to educate and train physicians in emergency medicine to provide quality emergency care in the nation's hospitals. Today, ACEP represents more than 39,000 emergency physicians, emergency medicine residents and medical students. ACEP promotes the highest quality of emergency care and is the leading advocate for emergency physicians and their patients, and the public.

ACS is a professional organization of more than 82,000 members, including more than 6,600 Fellows in other countries, making it the largest organization of surgeons in the world. Founded in 1913, ACS was created to improve the quality of care delivered to surgical patients by establishing high standards in practice and safety.

AMCHP is a national resource, partner, and advocate for state public health leaders and others working to improve the health of women, children, and families, including those with special health care needs.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a national public health institute in the United States. It is a United States federal agency, under the Department of Health and Human Services, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Child Life Disaster Relief is a nonprofit organization working to expand child life services into the field of disaster. The vision of CLDR is to develop a coordinated and global network to ensure that children in disasters and crises have the tools and support needed to promote positive coping and resilience. CLDR was established in response to the growing need for trained professionals to work with children in the aftermath of disasters and crises. The team also identified gaps in the services provided to children in those early years of exploration, research, and networking and set goals for beginning to meet those identified needs.

The CYSHCNet uses a family-centered approach to improving all aspects of care for CYSHCN through research, knowledge dissemination, resource identification, and networking.They collectively serve children and youth with special health care needs across all 50 U.S. states.

The Emergency Nurses Association is the American professional organization that represents emergency nursing. Consisting of 40,000 members, ENA examines issues relevant to emergency care, publishes professional guidelines, and issues a peer-reviewed journal.

Family Voices is a national organization and grassroots network of families and friends of children and youth with special health care needs and disabilities that promotes partnership with families–including those of cultural, linguistic and geographic diversity—in order to improve healthcare services and policies for children. Through Family-to-Family Health Information Centers in 59 states, territories, and tribal areas, Family Voices connects families of CYSHCN with critical resources to improve healthcare access and delivery.

The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) has coordinated activities related to rural health care within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the past 30 years. Part of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), FORHP has department-wide responsibility for analyzing the possible effects of policy on the 57 million residents of rural communities and provides grant funding at the state and local levels to improve access, quality and financing for rural health care.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is at the forefront of the administration’s health IT efforts and is a resource to the entire health system to support the adoption of health information technology and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care. ONC is organizationally located within the Office of the Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

ONC is the principal federal entity charged with the coordination of nationwide efforts to implement and use the most advanced health information technology and the electronic exchange of health information. The position of National Coordinator was created in 2004, through an Executive Order, and legislatively mandated in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) of 2009.

NASEMSO is the lead national organization for EMS, a respected voice for national EMS policy with comprehensive concern and commitment for the development of effective, integrated, community-based, universal, and consistent EMS systems. It is comprised of state-level officials in all states, territories, and DC which are responsible for the overall planning, coordination and regulation of the EMS system within the state and are positioned to cause change locally because the state EMS oversight agency has mechanisms to promote and encourage promising practices in QI.

The Telehealth Centers of Excellence (COEs) focus on the efficacy of telehealth services in rural and urban areas and serve as national clearinghouses for telehealth research and resources, including technical assistance.  The COEs are located in public academic medical centers that have successful telehealth programs with high annual volume of telehealth visits and have established programs that provide telehealth services in medically underserved areas with high chronic disease prevalence and high poverty rates.