Script Your Future Adherence Challenge

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Script Your FutureAdherence Challenge

• SCHOOL NAME
• DATE

A Campaign of the National Consumers League
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Agenda

• Why Medication Adherence?
• Script Your Future Campaign Overview
• Past Adherence Challenges
• Adherence Challenge 2011
• Adherence Team Challenge 2013
• Medication Adherence Team Challenge 2014

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Why Medication Adherence?
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Research on Adherence

• Recognized as a national public health problem
• No single non-adherent personality type
• Many barriers to adherence

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Script Your Future Campaign Overview

• Coalition of 135 public and private stakeholder
  organizations, led by the National Consumers
  League
• Health care
• Consumer
• Insurance
• Business
• Pharmaceutical
• Government agencies
• Adherence researchers
• ScriptYourFuture.org provides adherence tools and
  resources for patients, family caregivers and
  health care professionals
• Focused on cardiovascular disease, respiratory
  disease and diabetes

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Campaign Resources

• Health care professional website
  (ScriptYourFuture.org/HCP)

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Campaign Resources

• Consumer website (ScriptYourFuture.org)

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What is the Adherence Challenge?

• Month long Challenge open to pharmacy and other
  health professions students
• Engages the next generation of health care
  professionals
• Promotes the importance of medication adherence,
  using Script Your Future materials
• Sponsored by American Association of Colleges of
  Pharmacy, National Association of Chain Drug
  Stores Foundation, American Medical Association,
  National Community Pharmacists Association,
  American Association of Colleges of Nursing,
  American Pharmacists Association

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Why have a Challenge?

• Our goals
• Plan and implement activities in our community to
  raise awareness about medication adherence
• Secure media interest in the issue of medication
  adherence and our activities
• Measure and report on our impact
• Engage the next generation of health care leaders
• Encourage the strength of inter-professional care
  teams in promoting adherence.
• Outreach to local communities

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Medication Adherence Team Challenge Outreach
(2011-2014)

• Since the first Challenge in 2011, Health
  professions students
• Have reached millions of consumers directly and
  through the media
• Held over 500 individual
• events
• Directly counseled
• tens of thousands of patients

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Student Pharmacist Adherence Challenge
(2011)Community Events- Creating Sharing
Materials
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Medication Adherence Team Challenge
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Adherence Challenge Materials

• Printed campaign materials
• Medication list wallet cards (English and
  Spanish)
• Posters
• Stickers
• Wallet Card Easel Stands
• Customizable electronic materials
• Press release and media advisory
• SYF Consumer PowerPoint Presentation
• Letter to the editor
• PSA pitch guide
• TV PSA guide

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Important Dates

• November 21, 2014 Letter of Intent due
• January - February 2015 Challenge
• March 13, 2015 Report due
• May 2015 Awardees notified

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Contact Information

• SCHOOL Organizer(s)
• NAME, EMAIL, PHONE
• NAME, EMAIL, PHONE
• Adherence Team Challenge Contacts
• Ayanna Johnson (submissions, media and materials)
• ayannaj_at_nclnet.org