Our Mission
AAP-CA is committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults living in California.
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State Government Affairs Committee Priority Issue Areas
Child Nutrition
Child Nutrition
Healthy children learn better and are more productive – both in and out of the classroom. Setting strong nutritional standards in our schools is essential to combating the concerning obesity rates among American children.
Child Immunizations
Child Immunizations
Vaccines save lives. Measles vaccines alone are estimated to have prevented over 21 million deaths between 2000 and 2017. Vaccines will help protect children against diseases that can cause serious harm or death, especially in people with developing immune systems like infants.
Climate & Environmental Health
Climate & Environmental Health
Young children often are hardest hit by the consequences of poor environmental public health systems. For their size, they breathe more air and eat more food than adults, making them particularly vulnerable to environmental public health hazards.
Early Development
Early Development
The goal of early childhood advocacy is to improve the lives of children and families by influencing legislators’ and policymakers’ opinions and activities.
Education & School Safety
Education & School Safety
Safe schools promote the protection of students from violence, exposure to weapons and threats, theft, bullying, and the sale or use of illegal substances on school grounds. School safety is linked to improved student and school outcomes.
Health Access & Coverage
Health Access & Coverage
Children’s access to health care is important to children themselves, to their families, as well as to society at large. Health care can influence children’s physical and emotional health, growth, and development and their capacity to reach their full potential as adults.
Immigrant Child Health & Safety
Immigrant Child Health & Safety
Immigrant children and families face many challenges in the current environment including threats posed by the separation of children and families at the U.S. border, the uncertain fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, potential changes to public charge rules, among others.
Juvenile Justice
Juvenile Justice
Children and adolescents who become involved with the justice system often do so with complex medical, mental health, developmental, social, and legal needs.
Mental & Behavioral Health
Mental & Behavioral Health
Approximately one out of every five children in America have a diagnosable mental health disorder. Mental health problems in young people are associated with outcomes such as suicide, substance use, inability to live independently, justice involvement…
Telehealth & Rural Access to Care
Telehealth & Rural Access to Care
Rural children experience worse health and health care outcomes than their urban peers. Barriers to accessing quality health care exacerbate their health outcomes and pose significant challenges to achieving optimal health status.
Tobacco, E-Cigarette & Cannabis Products
Tobacco, E-Cigarette & Cannabis Products
In the United States, e-cigarette use among youth has exploded into what the Surgeon General and the Food & Drug Administration have called “epidemic” levels. Alarmingly, e-cigarette marketing uses many of the same strategies effectively used by the tobacco industry to reach kids.
