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The Michigan Department of Community Health’s (MDCH) Asthma Prevention and Control Program (APCP) is a comprehensive program responsible for addressing asthma throughout the state of Michigan. This is accomplished by providing leadership, coordination of efforts, asthma expertise, and resources. The program focuses on systems change, integration and replication of successful programs, garnering policy improvement through strategic partnerships, and using surveillance data to expand program reach and address disparities.

The Coordinated Asthma Referral and Education (CARE) Program provides free home assessment, health education, athma management and supplies for children under 18 who have asthma in certain geographical locations in San Bernardino County. Please call 1-800-782-4264 for more information, Monday-Friday from 8-5 pm.

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

State of NH Division of Public Health Asthma Control Program

The Utah Asthma Program is located at the Utah Department of Health in the Bureau of Health Promotion. It began in December 2001 with the intent to develop state capacity to address asthma, including an occupational component. The program is funded through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Maine Asthma Prevention and Control Program is a State program aimed at reducing the burden of asthma in Maine, raising awareness of the cost associated with asthma, increasing patient self-management, and decreasing asthma in disparate populations through the use if best-practice interventions within the system of public health.

A private corporation which has a very public mission. Moreover, that mission has expanded in scale and scope over the last three decades. Incorporated in 1965, the agency came into being as part of a nationwide, federally-funded, community action movement whose focus was to intimately involve poor people in developing their own solutions to persistent poverty.

State of Connecticut, Department of Publicl Health CDC funded in-home asthma program focusing on patient/family self-management asthma education and identification and mitigation of environmental exposures that exacerbate asthma in order to reduce asthma-related adverse events.

The NYS Asthma Program is implemented through an internal cross agency infrastructure focusing on surveillance, health care delivery and quality, community based initiatives and environmental and occupational health; and through the Asthma Partnership of New York, a public/private collaboration with the NYSDOH, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the CDC and key statewide and national stakeholders