PLC OrientationMarc Lavender, MD

Director, Pediatric Links with the Community

The Hoekelman Center

UR Medicine Department of Pediatrics

• Have a better sense of the community-based

resources available to patients and families living in

the City of Rochester & Monroe County.

• Feel competent in your ability to refer your

patients/families to community-based resources and

track those referrals.

• Feel competent in your ability to advocate on behalf

of patients and families in your practice.

PLC OBJECTIVES

Map courtesy of: Rochestersubway.com

• What do you see?

• What does it remind you of?

• What more do you want to know?

• How does it make you feel?

OBSERVATIONS

ASSIGNMENTS ET AL.• Bus/grocery exercise

• Exploratory learning

• Reflection

• Evaluation

• PLC Pedia

Identify

Refer

Follow through

“Home Visit”

Joeli Hettler, PL-2

Pediatrics in Review 1997;18;322

THIS IS

ALL YOU

NEED TO

KNOW.

A FEW OTHER THINGS…

Advocacy is giving the right personthe right information

at the right time.

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs.Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then

go do that.Because what the world needs is people who have

come alive.Howard Thurman

• passive advocacy

• support San Jose Partners

• smile.amazon.com

• Tab for a Cause

• nonprofit-shoppingmall.com

• individual office/hospital visits

• sign a petition - Change.org

• advocacy list serves

• establish group visits

• work with local gov’t

• engage with community projects &

groups

• write a letter to the editor

• email a legislator

• start a petition

• attend local or national

meetings/work groups

• speak at a legislative meeting

• meet your legislator in person

< 5 minutes a month > 2 hours a month

Advocacy deconstructed

Sign up for an

advocacy alert!!

Finding an advocacy organization that champions your causes of interest is KEY.

A quality organization will HELP YOU navigate the world of legislative advocacy.

All you need to do is prepare to share your stories.

Make it EASY on yourself and partner up

• Am I registered??

• Monroe County Board of Elections

• Who/what am I voting for?!?

• Vote411.org – League of Women Voters

• Project Vote Smart – election info + issues + politician voting records

• Factcheck.org - “nonprofit ‘consumer advocate’ for voters”

• Govtrack - track legislation, contact legislators

Vote!

Especially in the primaries!!

• Monroe County Legislature

• Legislative process (incl. speaking at

meetings)

• 2017 Meeting Calendar

• 2017 Budget Statement

• 2017 List of Legislators

• City of Rochester

• About Rochester City Council

• How Legislation is Adopted (and how to

speak at meetings)

• City Council Meetings

• Past and Upcoming City Council

Proceedings

Local Government

Letters to the editor – So Easy!