Childhood Asthma Linkages in Missouri (CALM)

Childhood asthma is a significant public health problem in the United States, with children living in remote rural communities and inner cities experiencing disproportionately higher morbidity and mortality due to asthma. The Childhood Asthma Linkages in Missouri (CALM) project was designed by the Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) to support the implementation and expansion of comprehensive, innovative and evidence-based programs to improve health outcomes for school-age children with asthma. Specifically, CALM supports program models led by hospitals, school districts or university-based health centers that utilize community-based approaches to build successful linkages among those responsible for asthma care in children. The University of Michigan Center for Managing Chronic Disease (CMCD) is conducting a comprehensive evaluation of the CALM program that will result in common cross-site assessment of reach, linkages, sustainability of efforts, and asthma-related outcomes.      

Grantees of the CALM project extend across the following 14 urban and rural sites throughout the state of Missouri:

• Barton County Memorial Hospital, Lamar, MO
• BJC Health System/St. Louis Children’s Hospital Foundation, St. Louis, MO
• Cape Girardeau Career and Technology Center, Cape Girardeau, MO
• City of St. Louis Department of Health, St. Louis, MO
• Cox Monett Hospital, Inc., Monett, MO
• Curators of the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
• Fulton Public Schools, Fulton, MO
• Hannibal Public Schools, Hannibal, MO
• Institute for Family Medicine, St. Louis, MO
• Kennett Public Schools, Kennett, MO
• School District of Springfield R-12, Springfield, MO
• School of the Osage, Lake Ozark, MO
• Union R-XI School District, Union, MO
• Washington County Memorial Hospital, Potosi, MO

 For more information, contact Laurie Lachance at lauriel@umich.edu.