Education/Outreach Materials

The simplest way to address your allergy and asthma triggers is to make clean air in your home a priority.

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 Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation discuss the basics of Medicaid and its role in the health care system.

This brochure offers tips on how to manage asthma and follow simple steps to minimize exposure to asthma triggers found indoors and out.

Article posted in Allergy & Asthma Today Magazine, Winter 2013.

Meet the Breathe Easies! The world's most famous (and only) asthma-rock band, here to tell you about how to stop asthma triggers in your home!

EPA’s Burn Wise program has developed the following public service announcements (PSAs) to promote cleaner wood-burning. The videos highlight the health effects related to PM exposure from residential wood smoke. These PSAs are free to use for air quality agencies, chimney sweeps, hearth retailers and others who want to promote the Burn Wise message.

Environmental Management of Pediatric Asthma: Guidelines for Health Care Providers Archived Training Webinar, hosted by the Children's Environmental Health Network and the National Environmental Education Foundation

Wee Breathers™ is a very flexible and interactive program designed for asthma educators to reach families of pre-school-age children with asthma in their homes or in child care settings. The program consists of 7 one-hour lessons, two checklists for identifying asthma triggers in the home & in child care centers, and an instructor guide.

Effective January 1, 2014, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services is changing Medicaid regulations regarding which types of providers can be reimbursed for providing preventative services to Medicaid and CHIP beneficiaries. This Question & Answer document explains how this important Medicaid change will impact coverage of the community-based interventions for low-income children with asthma.