Welcome back Dr. Shannon Ross of Children's of AL's Infectious Disease Department to talk about best practices on antibiotic stewardship for the most common pediatric bacterial infections!

Check out this AAP article: click here.

Check out these AAP resources on antibiotic stewardship: click here.

Check out the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society's Antibiotic Stewardship Program Toolkit for more resources and information: click here.

All you need to know about pediatric tuberculosis! Dr. Wes Stubblefield with the AL Dept of Public Health and Dr. Claudette Poole with Children's of AL's pediatric infectious disease department join to share all about tuberculosis, from microbiology to treatment, public health response and more!

For more information on pediatric tuberculosis: click this AAP article.

For more info from the AL Department of Public Health: click here.

Chief Operating Officer of Feeding Alabama, Kim Lawkis, joins us today to share about this wonderful organization and its resources, including the CARES program and the hunger vital signs screening, and what to do when your patients and families have food insecurity.

For more information on Feeding Alabama: click here.

For more information on the CARES program: click here.

Check out more about the Hunger Vital Sign screening: click here.

For those outside of AL, check out Feeding America: click here.

Let's gear up for this year's Reach Out and Read- Alabama's Grand Pediatric Pentathlon at our AL AAP Spring Meeting, April 16-18 at Gulf Shores! Our Reach Out and Read Communications Specialist Salina Sowell joins us today with All About Books' Sarah Pelkey! Come join us and support Reach Out and Read Alabama!

To register for the AL AAP Spring Meeting and Grand Pediatric Pentathlon: click here.

To register for the virtual Grand Pediatric Pentathlon: click here.

Stay up to date on Grand Pediatric Pentathlon information: click here.

Thank you to our Grand Pediatric Pentathlon sponsors:
- All About Books
- Porch Band of Creek Indians
- Joe Piper Inc
- Children's Rehab Services
- Medical Association of the State of AL (MASA)
- My Care Alabama
- Jackson Thornton
- Alabama Academy of Family Physicians
- So.Med
- River Bank & Trust
- Ilona Overmann

Join us today as our Chapter's Mental Health Champions, Dr. Shawn Cecil and Dr. Madeleine Blancher, talk about all the mental health resources the Chapter has to offer for pediatricians and families, as well as tips in talking and guiding families. This is an episode you don't want to miss!

Check out the Healthy Mental Development Resources: click here.

Check out the AL AAP's Suicide Prevention Resources: click here.

For more mental health resources and info from the National AAP: click here.

Thank you to our sponsor for this episode, the Children's of AL's PATHS program! For more information: click here.

Last month many of our AL AAP Chapter members visited our State Capitol for Legislative Day! I was fortunate enough to have the chance to sit with Representative Ed Oliver and chat over some of the inside scoop of Legislation and get advocacy tips! Bonus: Representative Oliver is one of our Chapter's Graham Champion Legislative Hero award winners and I can see why!

Be sure to join Legislative Day next year!!

Thank you to our sponsor, the AL Dept. of Public Health, Immunization Division! For more information: click here.

Join us in this momentous occasion as we celebrate 20 years of Reach Out and Read-Alabama! Listen as Dr. Marsha Raulerson shares the origins of this program and as Salina Sowell gives us program updates and what we can look forward to this milestone year! Joining us also is Dr. Sara Smith T, who is a big pediatric champion for ROR-AL!

To apply to become a Reach Out and Read-Alabama site
https://www.myror.org/

Follow Reach Out and Read-Alabama on social media

Facebook -- RORAlabama (https://www.facebook.com/RORAlabama)

Instagram -- @reachoutandreadalabama (https://www.instagram.com/reachoutandreadalabama)

LinkedIn -- https://www.linkedin.com/company/reach-out-and-read-alabama/

Youtube -- @roralabama (https://www.youtube.com/roralabama)

Check out the list of current program sites
https://www.roralabama.org/our-program-sites

Participate in the Grand Pediatric Pentathlon!
https://www.roralabama.org/grand-pediatric-pentathlon

Listen in on some AL AAP Chapter updates and join us as we say farewell to Linda Lee as she retires and help us welcome Sabra Sutton as our new Executive Director!

For more information on the AL Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics: click here.

Chapter members, don't forget to submit your vaccine-friendly video for a chance to win free registration to the Spring meeting: click here. Use #provenprotectionaapapproved

To register for the Spring Meeting in Gulf Shores: click here.

Thank you to our episode sponsor, the AL Department of Public Health Immunization Division! For more information: click here.