Reference Guide

This course provides a holistic approach to planning and evaluating education
and outreach programs. It helps program practitioners use and apply logic
models - a framework and way of thinking to help us improve our work and be
accountable for results. You will learn what a logic model is and how to use one
for planning, implementation, evaluation or communicating about your program.

This one-page, step-by-step guidance provides helpful hints for comprehensive asthma management.

As part of a comprehensive asthma management program, home visits can provide people with asthma an extra level of support and can contribute to the success and sustainability of a health plan’s asthma disease management program. EPA's new guide, Implementing An Asthma Home Visit Program: 10 Steps To Help Health Plans Get Started, offers step-by-step instructions on how to start an asthma home visit program with a particular emphasis on environmental risk factor management.

This tri-fold brochure is a handy resource for parents and caretakers of children with asthma. It discusses five common environmental triggers and ways to reduce exposures to these triggers indoors. Parents can follow the step-by-step guidance to reduce asthma triggers in their homes and minimize their children's exposure to triggers that may increase the number or severity of their asthma attacks.

The Asthma Guidelines for Schools is a comprehensive guide for school health personnel.

The Managing Asthma in the School Environment guide offers valuable information for all school staff, especially school nurses, teachers, and maintenance staff, on how to establish and evaluatine an indoor air quality management program, develop an asthma management plan, and reduce environmental asthma triggers.

HERC Resource Center
828 Innes Ave. Unit 111
San Francisco, CA 94124

Open M-TH 9am-5pm
Friday by appointment only

HERC's Resource Center provides many services free of charge to the residents of Bayview Hunters Point. These services include:

-Asthma Education with the use of modules and simulators
-Free handouts with information specific to your Asthma Needs
-Free Mattress Covers
-Free Peak Flow Meter Testing
-Free training on how to use your Asthma Inhaler if you are newly diagnosed
-Free Referral to Southeast Health Center Asthma Clinic if you feel you may have Asthma

Please feel free to call the Asthma Team if you have any concerns or need info that may not have been listed here. We will help you and your loved ones in your walk with Asthma. 415-401-6810

This tool lists controller and quick relief medications, their class, age recommendation, doses/strengths, and priming protocols.

This is a concise reference in an easy-to-use format based on the NHLBI Expert Panel Report 3: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma, 2007.

Interactive Asthma Action Plan (iAAP)
The Minnesota Department of Health's Asthma Program recently launched a new, interactive Asthma Action Plan (iAAP), a computerized clinical decision support tool for licensed health care providers who treat patients with asthma. The iAAP assists asthma providers/prescribers in determining the appropriate severity and asthma control, using the EPR-3 Guidelin