The Professional Affairs Committee will showcase psychiatric pharmacists' clinical practices in a practice-advancement effort to demonstrate the value of psychiatric pharmacists in team-based healthcare. (Meets: Virtually 1-hour monthly and in-person at Annual Meeting, Time Commitment: Average of 3 hours per month and 35 hours over course of the year)

Charges to the Professional Affairs Committee

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Provide feedback as requested on advocacy-related organizational initiatives, existing advocacy content, and staff-led activities.
2.
Monitor the effectiveness of professional affairs and set related goals to gauge success.
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Identify, evaluate, and prioritize associations for outreach (by staff or designated leaders) and partnership. Track and measure progress.
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Develop recommendations and/or resources for ambassador selection, training, and deployment to other associations and their affiliated conferences.
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Create communications and relationship building strategies for outreach to administrators, psychiatrists, primary care physicians, and substance use disorder professionals.
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Identify organizational research opportunities that will support or enhance advocacy efforts.