Before beginning, please write and edit your proposal in a Word document and then cut and paste it into the submission form. Consider sharing your proposal with your communications department for editing before submitting it. The Conference Advisory Committee reviews all submissions and quickly filters out poorly written and vague submissions.
Required information
Presenter information: Provide the contact information (name, designations, title, address, phone and email) for all presenters.
Presenter agreements: All presenters must initial to confirm they have read and agreed to the presenter agreements.
Proposal topics and audiences
Type of proposal: Education session
Conference focus areas (select only one):
Navigating the policy environment
- Adapting policy, advocacy, and storytelling approaches in an evolving policy environment.
- Emphasizing the specialized care and community benefit children's hospitals provide within local, state, and regional markets.
- Educating and collaborating with legislators, payors, and the community to positively impact child health and well-being.
Evolving strategies to meet the changing workforce landscape
- Adapting workforce recruitment and engagement strategies to meet the needs and expectations of a diverse, multigenerational workforce.
- Evolving care and staffing models to improve outcomes and promote health equity among employees, caregivers, patients, and families.
- Investing in and leveraging automation and AI to create efficiencies that address workforce gaps.
- Forward-looking succession planning and leadership development.
Operational excellence and financial sustainability
- Deploying strategies to enhance revenue and reduce costs.
- Collaborating across departments to translate organizational strategy into improved operational and financial performance.
- Developing and leveraging data systems to support operational and financial excellence.
- Cultivating sustainable, diverse funding streams to support a behavioral health system of care.
Length of session (education sessions only, select one): 45 or 60 minutes
Conference audience: Children's hospital leadership teams including executive, administrative, strategy, finance, policy, nursing, and physician leaders.
Proposal information
Proposal title (10 words): Provide a succinct and clear title that summarizes your proposal or illustrates what attendees will take away from your presentation.
Learning objectives (Two objectives, 20 words each): Learning objectives must describe what participants will be able to do as a result of attending the session. Learning objectives may be edited for Continuing Education consideration. Objectives must be stated as:
- Observable behaviors, completing the sentence "After completing this activity, participants will be able to..."
- Verbs denoting mental states such as "know," "understand," and "appreciate" should be avoided.
- Instead, use action verbs such as "describe," "discuss," and "explain."
Example:
Family Involvement in Improving Quality
A family advisory council, formed by parents, patients, hospital staff and faculty members, has a mission of ensuring families obtain the information and guidance they need to care for their children. Twelve members work together to promote family-centered care, emphasizing quality. This partnership between staff and the families who bring a vision for enhancing care represents a new paradigm in the way health care is delivered in a hospital.
Learning objectives:
- List opportunities for advisory council involvement in improving quality.
- Describe an effective model for FAC and staff interaction.
Description (75 words or less): Describe how you advanced work solutions in the conference focus area selected. Provide brief contextual background of the situation, a description of the project and details on how you advanced project aims.
Project Outline or Framework (limit 100 words): Provide details on how your team advances project aims.
Transferable and Replicable (75 words): Please explain why you consider this initiative relevant and transferable to peer children’s hospitals.
Results, Outcomes and Sustainability (75 words): Please detail clear or projected results, outcomes, and/or sustainability efforts.
Lessons Learned (50 words): Describe what your team learned from this initiative or project—successes and failures.
Health Care Team Question (50 words): Describe how this initiative, project or topic engages a team of health providers and/or patients for a collaborative and coordinated approach to shared decision making.
Future of Initiative/Next Steps (50 words): What are the next steps for this project? Are you using any CHA programs in this initiative?
Additional proposal resources
Please use this resource to learn more on conference topics and criteria as you work to develop a strong proposal.
