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Testing the usability of Mobile Technology and Online Tools to Improve Asthma Control in Adolescents. This project will fully develop and preliminarily validate CampAir, an empirically-based dynamic e-health intervention (based on the evidence-based ASMA) to assist adolescents with uncontrolled asthma to learn how to manage their illness and improve their asthma control.

MyPiE Inc. (My Personal Indoor Environment) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to identifying and mitigating exposure to products and contaminants in our everyday environments that contribute to poor indoor air quality and may cause chronic diseases.The MyPiE Asthma Prevention Program is a preventative program/service that provides a unique, evidence-based assessment of indoor air quality and environment/health education. This comprehensive program is a fundamental and necessary preventative management program that supports chronically diagnosed persons in leading healthy and active lives while supporting health plans in delivering better outcomes, improved efficiencies and improved patient satisfaction.

Breathe Easier with Asthma Management (BEAM) is an initiative of The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey in collaboration with the Boys & Girls Clubs in New Jersey. The primary goal of the initiative is to raise awareness about asthma and educate Boys & Girls Club members and their parents or caregivers about asthma and how best to manage it.

We are starting an outpatient asthma education program out of our hospital here in Plattsburgh, NY. The closest one that we know of is in Albany, NY. Our goal is to partner with community organizations and healthcare providers to evaluate, educate, treat, and improve asthma outcomes in our area.

The UMCH Breathmobile is a mobile clinic that provides free state-of-the-art preventive asthma care to underserved children who otherwise would not have access to effective specialty based asthma care. The Breathmobile provides care right outside neighborhood schools. The children receive national asthma guideline based care including asthma and allergy focused history and physical, lung function testing, allergy testing to identify potential allergen triggers, provision of medications, action plans and extensive education about how to keep asthma under control.

Partners for Asthma Action is supported by United Health Foundation and led by the American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest. The project aims to improve the quality of life, school achievement, and life prospects of more than 180,000 low-income children living with asthma in the Greater Chicago area, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis, and St. Louis.

Programa Respira is based on the CHAMPS intervention sponsored by MCAN and GWU from 2012 to 2014. We work on a case by case basis on patient education with a focus on medication adherence and environment control at the patients home free of charge.

The ACES (Asthma Care and Environmental Strategies) program is collaborative approach between the WI Dept of Health Services-Division of Public Health and CHW to provide in-home analysis of environmental triggers to asthma combined with a comprehensive client educational program to address pathophysiology, medications, symptoms and early warning signs of asthma, asthma triggers inside and outside the home, and vaccination promotion.

NYU Pediatric Pulmonology Division specialists treat a wide variety of respiratory problems. We offer expertise in Asthma, Cystic fibrosis, upper airway disorders, chronic cough, and much more. We also run a state of the art pulmonary function lab and bronchoscopy services.

CLEARCorps. completes assessments and remediation of environmental triggers in the homes of high risk youth with asthma.