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Key words: Health Education, Health Promotion, Patient Education, Community Health Education, Training for Health Professionals, Training for Teacher, Asthma Education Program in Schools, Curriculum Development, Education in Summer Camps, Celebration of World Asthma Day.

The Jerome Alston Memorial Foundation is concerned about the health, welfare and educational development of youth. We provide scholarships to young men pursing education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). We are also concerned about the asthma epidemic and are committed to bringing awareness to this cause.

Promotes continuum of health provider access with asthma advocate on-site while promoting clear communication with licensed clinicians. Conduct needs assessments by identifying medication adherence structure and barriers with medical literacy during doctor's visits. Educating parents on policies and practices that are available within compliance needs of asthmatics.

The Program will provide asthma management education for youth, families, and athletic personnel; scholarships; asthma control devices; and recreational facilities for youth, with a focus on youth in athletic settings.

The FlowBrush™ is the latest asthma monitoring technology developed to assist asthma patients. The FlowBrush helps identify asthma attacks at the earliest stages, allowing preventive measures to be implemented before expensive ER visits and hospital stays are needed.

We are a pulmonary clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Health Care Providers (MD's, NP's) evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients (ages 18 and up) with asthma and help them with self-management.

The SFGH Pediatric Asthma & Allergy Clinic is a hospital based clinic serving the poor and underserved children in San Francisco ages birth to 21 in the county's public hospital. Our clinic provides the clinical portion of our multi-faceted approach developed by the San Francisco Asthma Task Force.

ECAPP is a collaboration between East Carolina University and Vidant Medical Center in Greenville. Our goal is to reduce asthma exacerbations and ED visits among low income children in eastern NC.

The School Asthma Initiative offers programs and resources to Early Learning Centers and K-12th grade to educate school personnel, students, parents and nurses about proper asthma management. We also provide free management tools and patient assistance for respiratory patients in need of medicaton, oxygen or an air-conditioned environment. We also sponsor Camp Huff-and-Puff for children with asthma ages 8-13.

A statewide multi-agency consortium that promotes and assists school districts to implement and maintain the EPA Tools for Schools program.