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Safe at Home program is a home-based multi-component education and environmental remediation. Eligible participants are required to have a child between the ages of 2-14 years who has been diagnosed with asthma and resides in Baltimore City.

Easy Breathing© is an asthma management program designed to assist primary care clinicians in making a diagnosis of asthma and in treating individuals with asthma using a systematic, standardized, approach that both adheres to the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) guidelines and is easily used by busy practitioners. Five key features distinguish the Easy Breathing Program. Easy Breathing: 1. simplifies national asthma guidelines with 5 easy-to-use tools and increases adherence to these guidelines.2. offers a database that allows study of program outcomes, including environmental exposures, interventions and feedback for clinicians.3. reduces medical services utilization and is cost effective.4. is approved by the American Board of Pediatrics for Maintenance of Certification, Part 4 Quality Improvement.

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

SAM (School-based Asthma Management) is a collaborative venture between Delta State University, the Mississippi State Department of Health and school districts located in the Mississippi Delta to assess, monitor and collaborate to provide effective case management services for students in the Mississippi Delta with Asthma.

Provide home environmental trigger education in context of broader healthy homes training.

HCBT is a community asthma education program that takes place in under served communities in Chicago. Community Health Workers provide comprehensive in-home asthma education to children and their families over the course of a year.

Asthmania Academy helps children with asthma and the people who care for them. We are the second program in the nation and the first in the Southeast to receive ASME certification from the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC). Our goal is to work with patients, families and physicians to improve asthma control. Asthmania Academy's specialized staff includes certified asthma educators (AE-C), pediatric hospitalists and certified pulmonary function technologists (CPFT) who can assess asthma control, perform diagnostic studies and provide recommendations based on nationally-recognized asthma management guidelines.

The Respiratory Program educates the community into awareness of Asthma related events with prevention, intervention and some guidelines working closely with the American Lung Association, Minnesota Society for Respiratory Care and Asthma Coalition.

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.

The New York State (NYS) Healthy Neighborhoods Program (HNP) seeks to reduce the burden of housing related illness, and asthma in particular, through a holistic healthy homes approach and strategic partnerships with clinical services. Five key features distinguish the program. The NYS HNP: