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The program''s focus is to establish a statewide collaboration that develops and implements strategies that reduce the health and economic consequences caused by asthma through evidence-based, data driven best practices. Since 2007, the program has been increasing its efforts to improve the quality of life for individuals with asthma by facilitating community collaborations; establishing an effective surveillance system; advocating for an asthma-friendly environment; and developing a comprehensive asthma education program for schools, providers, and other members of the community.

Goal: Provide families, communities, and professionals with the knowledge and tools needed to protect children from lead poisoning. Coordinate lead source identification activities and target lead hazard remediation efforts to minimize childhood exposure to all lead hazards, with a focus on lead-based paint hazards.

Primary Prevention Objective 1 (Healthy Homes): Collaborate with Healthy Start to Help 100 families take action to create a lead safe and healthy home by June 30, 2009.

Activity

1. Develop a local Healthy Homes Protocol that includes a listing of local resources that perform lead hazard remediation and other healthy homes services for low income, high-risk families at a reduced or no-cost.
2. Train Healthy Start to integrate outreach, education, and visual lead risk assessment efforts into home visitation activities.
3. Provide a 1.5 hour family centered lead-safe work practices training at least once quarterly.
4. Provide health education to 80% of families referred to the CLPPP. (Education will include, Healthy Homes Booklet, consultation over the phone, and / or in-home education.)
5. Help families obtain needed services.

Primary Prevention Objective 2 (Healthy Homes): Collaborate with the Child Care Center Program to Help # of childcare centers to take action to create a lead safe and healthy home by June 30, 2009.

Activity
1. Train Child Care Center Staff to integrate outreach, education, and visual lead risk assessment efforts into childcare center visitation activities.
2. Provide a 1.5 hour lead-safe work practices training at least quarterly.
3. Provide health education to 80% of childcare centers referred to the CLPPP.
4. Connect childcare centers to healthy homes services.

Outcomes:
_Provided twenty-five community presentations which included children, parents and educators (250 people).

-Provided 150 tool kits to community advisory groups to share with their organization. Tool kits included information about the importance of blood lead screening and lead poisoning prevention.

_5 Lead safe work practices trainings were provided to community agencies serving the same clientele.
Hillsborough County Extension Services, BOCC Head Start/Early Head Start Program, Hillsborough County Schools Head Start Program, Consumer Credit Counseling Services,Inc. 1st Time Homebuyers Program and Healthy Start Coalition

OHC Environmental, CLPPP Coordinator and Tampa Housing Authority for landlords, property owner’s local government agencies and contractors for the months of February and March 2007.

The RI Department of Health Asthma Control Program provides leadership in the state to reduce hospitalization and ED rates due to asthma. The program works closely with the Asthma Control Coalition and other partners using a health care systems approach. Interventions and activities take place in the health care, community, surveillance and evaluation, environmental health, and communication systems. Outcomes address access to quality asthma care, quality of life among people in RI with asthma, self management of asthma, and environmental health as it pertains to asthma.