Government

The Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control (OHHLHC) Healthy Homes program works to reduce environmental health and safety hazards in housing. Designed to provide a unique, comprehensive preventative approach to children''s health hazards in the home, since 1999 the Healthy Homes program has targeted the limited number of building deficiencies that contribute to a multitude of health and safety hazards. The program provides approximately $10 million annually in research, policy guidelines, outreach, and capacity building for partners, practitioners, grantees, and the public.

We are a statewide asthma control program whose overall objective is to improve the quality of life for all Montanans with asthma. We focus on describing the burden of asthma in our state and supporting statewide efforts that promote self-management education, effective clinical care and coordination, and the creation of asthma friendly environments.

The Craven-Pamlico Asthma Coalition works with area pediatricians to ensure that families have all the knowledge and tools needed to let their child with asthma go to school every day, participate in sports, and feel healthy.

Although effective asthma treatment and management practices do exist, not all persons with asthma have access to them. Socioeconomic status, lack of health insurance, not receiving an asthma management plan from their health care provider, and failure to recognize the severity of their disease can all impact a person’s access to adequate asthma healthcare.

New Guidelines were published this year and we want to help our local health care providers implement these proven effective asthma management tools.

Our primary goals are Asthma Self-Management through proper medication; removal or reduction of environmental triggers; and education of the patient, family and community. We strive to make sure that patients know how to prevent, or at least minimize the severity, of asthma attacks. Because, as our slogan states: “Breathing Should Be Easy!”