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KU Department of Pediatrics.
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This web site created by
John Goodwin, MD

Legal Notices.

Revised: March 28, 2006

Mission and Program Standards:

PRIDE is sponsored by pediatric residents throughout the United States. This non-profit program is committed to recognizing elementary and middle school children who have achieved school excellence and community service.

National Program Standard:

Each residency will find different ways to make PRIDE work in their city. The program is in its infancy and certainly has years of growth before perfection. We encourage you to make the program "user easy" for the residents in your program.

Because this is a national program, please maintain the following standards:

1. The emblem for the program is simple. Please do not add to it or alter it. This will improve the ease of recognition for businesses, schools, and winners. This emblem may be duplicated by pediatric residency programs only. It consists of the following lines, both in Arial font. The first line is bold and italicized.

PRIDE
Pediatricians Recognizing Individuals
Demonstrating Excellence.

2. As you solicit contributions from businesses, please avoid any controversial companies (for example, tobacco, alcohol, discriminatory, or "gentlemen’s club" type businesses). Frequently these businesses are quite willing to contribute to show support, but ethically they are not good for your program locally or the national program. Excellent sources of financial and prize material come from local sports teams, local media, automobile dealers, restaurant owners, and local industry.
3. Financial donations should be recorded. A letter for tax-deduction purposes should be offered to the business. Not more than 15 percent of the gift should be used for office expenses and startup costs for the program. This is a good public relation program to market your Pediatrics Department.
   It is absolutely not to be used as a "moneymaker" for your residency.
4. All types of schools in your area should be considered -- public, private, religious, and charter. It may not be possible to formally invite all schools. In Kansas City, we invited the public school districts closest to the medical center. Private and other schools that showed interest were mailed information at their request.
5. The most frequently asked question concerns the criteria by which a winner is chosen from among those nominated. The criteria are purposely vague. We view school excellence as including any child who is showing improvement. Commonly, a straight "A" student is nominated by the teacher or principle. However, in our information to schools we have made it clear that their nominations should include "C" students who have worked hard on a recent project or who are showing clear improvements.
6. Community service is, likewise, not strictly defined. It may be a child who participates in church or temple groups, a Boys or Girls Club, an after-school group that assists others in the community, or any other worthwhile activity. One pediatric resident's opinion of "community service" may be quite different from another's. We recommend that should not have just one "rubber stamp" set of criteria for choosing a winner. Allow the term "community service" to encompass any child helping others.
7. We strongly encourage you to disqualify children of any individual working in your pediatric department or working for a business that has contributed to the program.