Day Care

Sesame Street characters help with your asthma action Plan. Here’s what to do when a child with asthma feels sick:

In collaboration with EPA, AHIP hosted a webinar on May 20 on "Connecting Providers and Communities to Engage Consumers in Asthma Care."

The prevalence of childhood asthma in the United States increased from 8.7% in 2001 to 9.5% in 2011. This increased prevalence adds to the costs incurred by state Medicaid programs. We provide state-based cost estimates of pediatric asthma emergency department (ED) visits and highlight an opportunity for states to reduce these costs through a recently changed Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regulation.

This report, prepared by the Environmental Law Institute and the Children’s Environmental Health Network, provides an overview of how state policy addresses indoor environmental exposures in the child care setting. The report describes the state of state policy today and highlights notable examples to assist policymakers, agency officials, non-governmental organizations and associations, and others who work to advance quality child care and promote children’s health.

This document provides building professionals with practical guidance to control moisture in buildings during design, construction and maintenance.

Material educativo que ayuda a familias con alergias y asma a eliminar los alérgenos que causan síntomas al interior del hogar, la escuela o en os lugares donde el niño juega.

Green Cleaning, Sanitizing, and Disinfecting: A Toolkit for Early Care and Education is a set of materials for child care programs that provides educational information on choosing safer products, tools, procedures and policies for cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting in child care facilities.

Wellapets is an educational virtual pet game for phones and tablets which teaches and motivates kids ages 6-11 to manage asthma by caring for a lovable pet that also has asthma. Wellapets is created by LifeGuard Games in Boston with pediatricians and other clinicians in the area.

The Boston smoke-free homes is a resource website where landlords, tenants and general community can access information about making the home environment smoke-free.

Safe cleaning recipes for people with asthma