Chartered Affiliates Committee Summit Award Change Proposal

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Chartered Affiliates CommitteeSummit Award
Change Proposal

• S The current Summit Award application and
  scoring process is not well defined, clumsy,
  subjective and can be unfair to the smaller
  states
• B The process is difficult and the committee
  frequently relies on subjective verbiage to
  determine which affiliate deserves to win the
  award
• A The application and scoring process needs to be
  changed to better and more objectively evaluate
  our Affiliates work and to more easily be able
  to recognize excellence for all Affiliates
  submitting applications
• R The committee recommends that the HOD approve
  the new application and scoring process we have
  come up with.

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Chartered Affiliates CommitteeSummit Award
Change Proposal

• Current Application
• The Affiliate has to answer various questions
  about education, membership, public awareness,
  advocacy and benefits to the membership.
• There is no definition and it is left up to the
  person filling out the application to answer the
  questions.
• There is an opportunity for the applicant to
  submit written documentation to explain how the
  Affiliate has met the above questions.
• It seems like the person who has the best writing
  skills gets scored the highest

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Chartered Affiliates CommitteeSummit Award
Change Proposal

• The committee came up with 7 categories or
  criteria for Chartered Affiliates to be scored
  on
• Education/CRCE Activities
• Membership, Recruiting and Retention
• Legislation/Advocacy
• Promoting Public Awareness
• Benefits to Membership
• Collaboration with other health care
  organizations
• Student activities, scholarships, sputum bowl,
  etc.

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Chartered Affiliates CommitteeSummit Award
Change Proposal

• Education/CRCE Activities
• How many total credits have you offered in the
  past year? Include all credits (traditional and
  non-traditional).
• 0 to 15 credits 1 point
• 16 to 30 credits 2 points
• 31 to 45 credits 3 points
• 46 to 60 credits 4 points
• 61 to 75 credits 5 points
• gt 75 credits 6 points
• Number of credits for the year /number of members
  in state x100
• to 2 1 point
• 2.1 to 3 2 points
• 3.1 to 4 3 points
• 4.1 to 5 4 points
• 5.1 to 6 5 points
• gt 6.1 6 points
• How many separate traditional educational events
  have you offered in the last year? 1 point for
  each offering
• How many nontraditional or web based credits have
  you offered in the past year? 1 point for each
  offering
• How many credits are required per year to
  maintain licensure in your state? 2 points for
  requiring at least 15 each year

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Chartered Affiliates CommitteeSummit Award
Change Proposal

• MEMBERSHIP, Recruiting and Retention
• Points will be awarded based on the following
  criteria
• Total ACTIVE membership
• Increase by 10 in one year award period 5 pts
• Increase by 5 in one year award period 3 pts
• Increase by 3 in one year award period 1 pt
• Increase by 0-3 in one year award period 0 pts
• Decrease in one year award period -2 pts
• Membership Percentage of Licensed Therapists
• gt 50 membership at end of year 5 pts
• gt 40 membership at end of year 4 pts
• gt 30 membership at end of year 3 pts
• gt 20 membership at end of year 2 pts
• lt 20 membership at end of year 0 pts
• State Membership Activities (1 pt for each of the
  following activities)
• Offer reduced registration for AARC members at
  all state affiliate sponsored events
• Utilize discount membership voucher program
• Perform at least one state affiliate sponsored
  membership drive during the year
• State affiliate membership committee with chair
  other than affiliate President

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Chartered Affiliates CommitteeSummit Award
Change Proposal

• Legislative Activities
• How have you promoted or participated in
  legislative activities that benefited your
  patients or the profession over the last year?
• Examples might include a Legislative Committee as
  one of your affiliate committees, PACT
  participation, a fully represented and active 435
  team for your state, employment of a lobbyist,
  activities to engage members in legislative
  activities like a booth at your state convention
  to promote a letter writing campaign to support
  legislature, action on your licensure bill to
  either protect or expand it, active licensure
  board activities, and meetings with congressional
  representatives either on the state or national
  levels.
• You will receive points for each activity that
  you have participated in as follows
• Legislative Committee-2 points
• PACT participation-2 points
• Employment of Lobbyist-2 points
• Fully represented and active 435 team-2 points
• Activities to engage the membership in
  legislative activities-1 point for each activity
• Activities to defend or expand licensure bill-5
  points
• Meetings with congressional representatives-2
  points each
• Need a total of 10 points to achieve excellence
  in this area

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Chartered Affiliates CommitteeSummit Award
Change Proposal

• Promoting Public Awareness
• Public relations can play a very important role
  in an association like the American Association
  for Respiratory Care. It can contribute to
  influencing local, state and national government
  officials on legislation the AARC supports, and
  it can improve the overall image of the
  Association's members and the respiratory therapy
  profession
• How have you promoted or participated in public
  awareness activities that benefited your patients
  or the profession over the last year?
• Examples might include a public relations team as
  one of your affiliate committees, special event
  such as COPD Awareness Day and Lung Health day,
  Open Houses, 10K runs, free early screenings,
  PSAs, advocacy events, smoking prevention or lung
  health to children, asthma camps, asthma
  awareness to school teachers, OpEds, occupational
  health screenings, pulmonary self-care programs.
• You will receive points for each activity that
  you have participated in as follows
• 10K runs, tennis, or golf tournaments or other
  sporting events-2 points
• Putting words to paper press releases, Media
  Alerts, Pitch Letters, and OpEds.-2 points
• Open Houses for prospective RCPs-2 points
• Quarterly activities to promote the RC
  profession-2 points
• Activities to engage the membership in public
  awareness-1 point for each activity
• Special Events with screening opportunities for
  public-5 points
• Speaking engagements, lectures, and briefings on
  a RC Topic-2 points each
• Need a total of 15 points to achieve excellence
  in this area

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Chartered Affiliates CommitteeSummit Award
Change Proposal

• Benefits to Membership
• Affiliate Web Page 2 points
• Does your State Society sponsor scholarships for
  Respiratory Care students in your states
  programs?
• 100 to 500 2 points
• 500 to 1,000 3 points
• 1,000 to 2,000 4 points
• gt 2,000 5 points
• Does your state affiliate offer public services
  such as Lung Function Screening, participate in
  public health fairs or offer public educational
  events. 2 points
• Does your state affiliate offer logo ware (i.e.
  pins, t-shirts, sweat shirts coffee cups etc) to
  your members? 3 points
• Does your state affiliate sponsor membership
  get-togethers such as golf tournaments, social
  events etc where members have the opportunity to
  meet each other? 2 points
• Offer discounted fees for Affiliate sponsored
  conferences? 2 points
• Offer chapter, district or other regional
  meetings, educational offerings or other
  membership activities? 2 points
• This section has a possibility of 20 points. A
  total of 15 points is needed to achieve
  excellence.

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Chartered Affiliates CommitteeSummit Award
Change Proposal

• Collaboration with other health care
  organizations
• Affiliate member on state Thoracic Society 2
  points
• Affiliate collaborates with initiatives to
  promote patient advocacy or the profession 2
  points
• Affiliate work with other physician
  organizations 2 points
• Affiliate work with other multidisciplinary
  groups like nursing, pharmacy, etc. 2 points

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Chartered Affiliates CommitteeSummit Award
Change Proposal

• Student Activities/Leadership Mentoring
• State Society partners with Respiratory
  Initiative group to promote RC profession to
  prospective students
• Offer job shadows 2 points
• Offer presentations to high school or middle
  school groups 2 points
• Designated Job Shadow Day during Respiratory Care
  Week 2 points
• Quarterly (or biannual?) meetings 2 points
• State Society conducts orientation/training
  session for new Board of Director members 2
  points
• Student attendance and/or participation at State
  Society BOD meetings 2 points
• Student participation in any activities/events in
  other categories, i.e. social events, health
  screening events, RC week events, chapter
  meetings, etc 2 points
• State Society has a student track at annual
  conference 2 points
• Student Sputum Bowl Team 2 points
• Student poster presentations or other
  competition 2 points
• State Society incorporates team
  building/strategic planning/leadership training
  into BOD meetings 2 points
• State Society sponsors Student and/or
  Practitioner of the Year Awards 2 points
• State Society partners with Lambda Beta National
  Honor Society 1 point
• State Society publications congratulate RC
  program graduates and newly credentialed
  individuals 1 point
• 100 of RC program faculty are AARC/State Society
  members 1 point
• State Society (at local/chapter level)
  participation in event to welcome incoming RC
  program student cohort (i.e. student picnic)
  participation in graduation related event 1
  point

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Chartered Affiliates CommitteeSummit Award
Change Proposal

• Proposal for Scoring
• Committee will evaluate applications and score
  each section appropriately per criteria in each
  section
• The total score will be tallied with the sections
  weighted as follows
• Legislative Activities 20
• Benefits to Membership 20
• Education/CRCE Activities 15
• Student Activities/Leadership Mentoring 15
• Collaboration with other health care
  organizations 10
• Membership, Recruiting and Retention 10
• Promoting Public Awareness 10
• Any Affiliate that achieves excellence in a
  section will be recognized
• The Affiliate that achieves the highest score
  will win the Summit Award

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Chartered Affiliates CommitteeSummit Award
Change Proposal

• Proposal for Scoring
• Next Steps
• Present our draft to the House
• Work with the AARC to see what it will take to
  change the On Line Application process
• Finalize proposal and present recommendation to
  the House for approval