About the Conference: Social drivers of health at the individual, family and community levels significantly impact children’s health and well-being. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and several state Medicaid agencies have released guidelines or mandates recommending that standardized social needs screening be conducted in health care settings. Addressing these social factors is not only important for improving overall child health, but also for reducing health inequities that are often rooted in social and economic disadvantage. Given the numerous basic needs of families experiencing poverty and/or homelessness, it is important that pediatricians and child health providers know about, and have the ability to provide referrals to local MediCal plan resources (CalAim, ECM), nonprofit agencies and community resources that can help families with healthcare, housing navigation, food resources, and other specific needs.

Credit Statements:

The AAP, California Chapter 4 is accredited by the California Medical Association (CMA) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The AAP, California Chapter 4 takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of this CME activity.

The AAP, California Chapter 4, designated this live educational activity for a maximum of 3.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity. These credits may also be applied to the CMA Certification in Continuing Medical Education.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the activity and individual assessment of and feedback to the learner, enables the learner to earn up to 3.5 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit.