How are we supporting and encouraging hospital departments to do community service?
One of the most important ways is through the work of Childrens Hospital Trust. The Trust has done an incredible job raising money to support our community service initiatives. But they are eager to do more. It is up to the OCA to bring together the hospital staff and community partners to develop the programs so that the Trust can find the funding to support them. The OCA will also provide technical assistance to groups working on community service initiativesfrom program development and implementation to fiscal management to grant writing to legislative advocacy support. The Trauma Department, for example, is working on a bill to improve seatbelt and child safety seat laws. Our staff members have advised them on providing testimony at the statehouse and pulling together a coalition. When the appropriate time comes, we can then activate the 1,300 members of the Childrens Advocacy Network who have volunteered to support our advocacy efforts by writing or calling their legislators on is
