Training Materials

The Power Breathing Program provides a basic understanding of asthma and its management in a peer-friendly environment. It empowers and motivates adolescents, ages 11-19, to take control of their asthma on a personal level. Power Breathing is the only nationally available asthma education program on the market that acknowledges and addresses teens’ social and lifestyle concerns. The program is presented in three 90-minute sessions or alternately six 45-minute sessions suitable for school settings. An additional fourth session is designed for older teens leaving home or entering the workforce. Each session includes hands-on instruction; discussion and strategic thinking; video animation; and Class Dismissed!—a board game to test asthma knowledge.

ACT is an asthma education and self-management program designed for children ages 7 to 12 and their parents. The program is divided into three, 1.5-hour sessions in which the parents and children are taught in separate classrooms and then brought together at the end of each session to share their new knowledge. ACT teaches children to work in cooperation with their parents and health care professionals to improve their decision-making skills and self-management behaviors. This occurs through a series of interactive games and activities that teach children how to identify asthma-related symptoms, ways to communicate with adults, ways to avoid triggers, how to take preventive measures, and the appropriate use of medications.

This resource is two “scripts” to help patients or parents of children who have asthma know what questions to ask their provider during an asthma visit. There is also a supplemental document titled “Your health care provider may ask you…”.