Health Plan

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 BREATHE Asthma Education and Research Program is funded by Sanford Health Systems in Sioux Falls, SD and is administrated by Missouri Breaks Research located in rural Eagle Butte, SD. BREATHE is currently serving the entire Cheyenne River Reservation and is in the process of implementing the program on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The pilot program on the Cheyenne River Reservation is intended to develop a successful way to deliver health education for rural and reservation areas and then to share that method with other areas to improve health care services.

The BREATHE Program has three main components - community service, education, and research. BREATHE will serve the community by raising awareness for asthma through community education and screening. BREATHE will educate all referred individuals and their families on disease management, medication use and asthma triggers, with a special emphasis on the effects of smoking and a personalized Asthma Action Plan. BREATHE will enroll 100 participants for the follow-up program to research the effect asthma education has on asthma control, quality of life and asthma knowledge. Other factors such as basic demographics and Health Locus of Control will be included for analysis.

Rae O’Leary, a Respiratory Therapist and Certified Asthma Educator is carrying out the BREATHE Program for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. She is committed to providing asthma education and respiratory services for her area as long as they are needed. She is interested in identifying more health care professionals to implement the BREATHE Program for other areas in need of asthma services.

The Community Liaison Department of South Carolina focus is advocacy by partnering with community organizations to bring information to the population that will aid in the elimination of health disparities. Our Healthy Hoops Program is asthma management through exercise and education.