Community

Grassroots activist for Healthy Schools in Texas. Working to promote healthy school initiatives since 2001.

CHAMP is a CMS Innovations project that involves implementing an asthma registry, providing community based education in homes and schools, and collaboration with community partners.

Teen Asthma Program

The HIPPY for Healthy Homes is a collaborative effort between the UAMS College of Public Health and the children community and outreach organization Home School Instruction for Parents of Pre-School Youngsters (HIPPY) to build capacity in the State for education and health protection from hazards in the home.

Safe at Home program is a home-based multi-component education and environmental remediation. Eligible participants are required to have a child between the ages of 2-14 years who has been diagnosed with asthma and resides in Baltimore City.

Easy Breathing© is an asthma management program designed to assist primary care clinicians in making a diagnosis of asthma and in treating individuals with asthma using a systematic, standardized, approach that both adheres to the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) guidelines and is easily used by busy practitioners. Five key features distinguish the Easy Breathing Program. Easy Breathing: 1. simplifies national asthma guidelines with 5 easy-to-use tools and increases adherence to these guidelines.2. offers a database that allows study of program outcomes, including environmental exposures, interventions and feedback for clinicians.3. reduces medical services utilization and is cost effective.4. is approved by the American Board of Pediatrics for Maintenance of Certification, Part 4 Quality Improvement.

Asthma control efforts will be accomplished through implementation of process objectives and action steps organized into four strategic focus areas:

SAM (School-based Asthma Management) is a collaborative venture between Delta State University, the Mississippi State Department of Health and school districts located in the Mississippi Delta to assess, monitor and collaborate to provide effective case management services for students in the Mississippi Delta with Asthma.

Provide home environmental trigger education in context of broader healthy homes training.

HCBT is a community asthma education program that takes place in under served communities in Chicago. Community Health Workers provide comprehensive in-home asthma education to children and their families over the course of a year.