New Leadership Development Program Will Strengthen Child Health Advocacy - The Annie E. Casey Foundation

New Leadership Development Program Will Strengthen Child Health Advocacy

Posted July 22, 2015
By the Annie E. Casey Foundation
Blog childrenhealthleadership 2015

The Annie E. Casey Foun­da­tion, the David and Lucile Packard Foun­da­tion and The Atlantic Phil­an­thropies are proud to intro­duce the Children’s Health Lead­er­ship Net­work, a new lead­er­ship devel­op­ment pro­gram to strength­en the field of state-based advo­cates for children’s health pol­i­cy. With fund­ing from these three foun­da­tions over the course of sev­er­al 16-month class­es, this pro­gram will build a pow­er­ful col­lec­tive of near­ly 100 advo­cates serv­ing through­out the coun­try in lead­er­ship capac­i­ties on behalf of our nation’s children. 

This net­work of strong, adap­tive and diverse lead­ers with expe­ri­ence in pol­i­cy, advo­ca­cy and strate­gic com­mu­ni­ca­tions will be unique­ly posi­tioned to inform pol­i­cy and imple­men­ta­tion that puts health and well-being of chil­dren and fam­i­lies first. Selec­tion of the first class of up to 15 lead­ers will take place in the fall of 2015, with the sem­i­nars begin­ning in Jan­u­ary 2016.

The Children’s Health Lead­er­ship Net­work is a rig­or­ous results-based lead­er­ship devel­op­ment pro­gram that equips lead­ers to move pur­pose­ful­ly from vision to action to results. This approach stems from a con­vic­tion that results-dri­ven lead­ers are vital to achiev­ing mea­sur­able and last­ing improve­ments for chil­dren and fam­i­lies. Results-based lead­er­ship pro­grams pro­vide par­tic­i­pants with cus­tomized lead­er­ship skills to help them exe­cute strate­gies and man­age the chal­lenges that come along with efforts to make last­ing and effec­tive changes to sys­tems and ser­vices for chil­dren and families.

Appli­ca­tions for the first class of up to 15 lead­ers are being accept­ed here and can be sub­mit­ted until 5 p.m. ET on Sep­tem­ber 21, 2015. Appli­cants should have the fol­low­ing qualities:

  • at least three to five years’ expe­ri­ence in children’s health and/​or advocacy;
  • com­mit­ment to reduce health inequities, improve child health out­comes and advance social change;
  • com­mit­ment to per­son­al growth and learn­ing, peer learn­ing and being part of a com­mu­ni­ty of learn­ing and network;
  • com­mit­ment to attend, be present and engaged;
  • apti­tude to inte­grate pol­i­cy and pol­i­tics in a sophis­ti­cat­ed way; and
  • posi­tion of orga­ni­za­tion­al influ­ence and sup­port of exec­u­tive direc­tor or board chair.

Learn more about the Children’s Health Lead­er­ship Net­work by down­load­ing this description.

An infor­ma­tion­al webi­nar about the Children’s Health Lead­er­ship Net­work will be held from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. August 4. Reg­is­ter here.