While the infusion of new energy and staff time that a new, externally funded project entails is usually successful in getting a program off the ground and getting attention to it, its active support over a 2- or 3-year project period, let alone its maintenance beyond the end of such a project period, requires development […]
If the emergency department is encouraging routine care, it is important that professionals in the community be willing to provide it. Thus, as a second strategy to address access to care, Dr. Robert Strunk, coprincipal investigator of the Neighborhood Asthma Coalition, has begun a series of regular meetings with practitioners from the community to review […]
The asthma camp illustrates an important characteristic of the community organization approach. A conventional approach to attempts to help inner-city youth is to offer them a holiday from the inner city through attendance at summer camps in rural areas. Many asthma summer camps offer scholarships for inner-city children. This no doubt accomplishes many worthy things. […]
During the first summer after the Neighborhood Asthma Coalition began (1992), a day camp was implemented in three of the four neighborhoods. Four half-day sessions were held, two in neighborhood churches and one in a community library. Average attendance at the camp was 8 children. Curriculum included interactive discussions and games to increase asthma knowledge; […]
To address social isolation, the original proposal called for the development of “asthma advocates” to provide social support, information, and encouragement to regular care to caretakers and their children so generic claritin. Representatives of the neighborhood Wellness Councils changed this to “CASS workers,” for “changing asthma through social support.” The primary role of the CASS […]
In addition to curriculum, an important part of the program is neighborhood promotion, oriented largely around the three emphases noted above: take asthma seriously; take asthma medication for asthma symptoms; and, when symptoms do not respond to treatment, get help. Table 2 provides samples of the promotional activities carried on through the four neighborhoods through […]
Examples of “Teachable Moments” include the following: 1. Activity leader recognizes shortness of breath and cough during a physical activity session, such as basketball. This may lead to a short discussion of asthma as a cause of these symptoms, emphasizing that asthma can present with symptoms other than wheezing. The discussion could include ways to […]