
Participate in Asthma Awareness Month!
Each May, thousands of organizations across the U.S. join together for Asthma Awareness Month (AAM) in an effort to increase public awareness about the nation’s asthma epidemic and to take action to get asthma under control in communities nationwide. Asthma affects almost 25 million people of all ages and races in the U.S.; however, public awareness of common asthma triggers and effective asthma management strategies remains limited. Scroll down to learn how you can promote your program's Asthma Awareness Month activities on AsthmaCommunityNetwork.org.
Browse AAM Events
Check out the Events Calendar and use the widget on the right hand side of the page to search for AAM events in your community!
Join the national effort in promoting Asthma Awareness. Put this widget on your Web page. Click here for the code!
Identify Partners in Your Community
Search the Community Program Profiles on AsthmaCommunityNetwork.org to find programs in your area to partner with and host events. Promote your events by posting them on the Events Calendar!
Find and Share Resources
Search the Resource Bank to inform your program’s work. The Resource Bank has everything from checklists and asthma action plans to education and outreach materials and community health worker tools.
To search for what you need, use the advanced search feature:
- Visit the Resource Bank.
- Click on the “show advanced search” button.
- Check the boxes under “Resource Category,” “Resource Type,” “Language,” “Literacy Level,” and “Target Audience” based on your resource needs.
- Click the “search” button at the bottom of the page.
- To start a new search, click the “start new search button.”
To share your program’s resources:
- Visit the Resource Bank.
- In the green box on the page, click the "add your resource" button.
- Complete the fields and upload your resource.
- Make sure to click the "save" button at the bottom of the page to add your resource.
- To add another resource, simply repeat steps 1-4 above.
Check out these Top Five Resources:
- Guide to Asthma Policy for Housing and Schools
American Lung Association - School Flag Program
EPA Asthma Team - Asthma Clinical Guidelines Flip Chart
AH! Asthma Health - Asthma Triggers Coloring Book
EPA Region 4 - Environmental Improvements for Children’s Asthma: The Impact on Symptom Burden and Return on Investment of a Home-Based Environmental Assessment and Modification Project
American Lung Association of Minnesota
Plan AAM Events
Download EPA’s Asthma Awareness Month Event Planning Kit, which features new ideas for outreach and awareness activities, tips for working with the media, success stories and much more.
Add AAM Events
Publicize your community’s AAM Event on the AsthmaCommunityNetwork.org Events Calendar. Make sure to designate it as an "Asthma Awareness Month" event so others can easily recognize that your event is part of this national effort.
Have Multiple Events?
Add each event separately to maximize your marketing impact. You’ll also be able to track how many people RSVP for each event.
Read and Share AAM Stories
After your event takes place, let other AsthmaCommunityNetwork.org members know how it went by writing a blog post. This is a quick, easy way to share your successes with the community. You can even upload pictures from your events! Your stories can also help others in planning their own successful events.
View Popular Videos, Podcasts and Webinars
Check out the Multimedia page to view videos and podcasts, and the Webinars page to watch popular webinars on a variety of asthma management topics.
Multimedia
Videos
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Building Partnerships to Create Healthy Tribal Homes
Watch a video featuring Gillian Mittelstaedt, of the Tulalip Tribes of Washington’s Air Quality Program, as she describes the strategies she has put in place to achieve success in asthma management and improve the health conditions of people in her community.
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Louisiana Recovery School District Addresses Asthma
Tiffany Delcour speaks about how the Louisiana Recovery School District is making a positive difference in addressing asthma in its schools.
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NFL Star Discusses His Personal Experience with Asthma
NFL star, Chris Draft, shares his personal experiences with asthma.
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Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling (Virginia) PSA 1
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Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling (Virginia) PSA 2
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Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling (Virginia) PSA 3
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Lieutenant Governor Craig Campbell (Alaska) PSA 1
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Lieutenant Governor Craig Campbell (Alaska) PSA 2
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Lieutenant Governor Jim Folsom (Alabama) PSA 1
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Lieutenant Governor Jim Folsom (Alabama) PSA 2
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Secretary of State of Puerto Rico PSA 1
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Secretary of State of Puerto Rico PSA 2 (Spanish)
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Childhood Asthma - One Family’s Story
Mr. Michael Deluca shares his very personal experience with childhood asthma at the 2009 National Asthma Forum.
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The Value of the National Asthma Forum - Dr. David Link, Cambridge Health Alliance
Dr. David Link of Cambridge Health Alliance speaks about his experience at the 2009 National Asthma Forum.
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noattacks.org Monster PSA
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noattacks.org Fish PSA
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Building Partnerships to Create Healthy Tribal Homes
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Louisiana Recovery School District Addresses Asthma
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NFL Star Discusses His Personal Experience with Asthma
Podcasts
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Healthy Home, Healthy Child, Inc. - The Westside Children's Asthma Partnership
Based on previous pediatric asthma initiatives in Westside Chicago, Melissa Gutierrez and Helen Margellos-Anast of the Sinai Urban Health Institute determined that basic asthma interventions were associated with improved health outcomes. Building on this knowledge, they developed a rigorous environmental component to their interventions and created their EPA award-winning program, Healthy Home, Healthy Child, Inc., (HHHC).
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How Maine's Public Housing Authorities Became 100% Smoke-Free
Learn how the Maine Smoke-Free Housing Coalition led the way for Maine to become the first in the country with smoke-free public housing policies statewide. Listen to Coalition founder Tina Pettingill and Coalition Director Sarah Mayberry’s remarkable story of how they engaged tenants and property owners, and find out how you can replicate their success in your state and community.
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The Role of Community Health Workers in Asthma Control
Dr. Tyra Bryant-Stephens discusses the role of community health workers in effective home-based asthma education.
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Asthma Management in the Healthy Homes Movement
Rebecca Morley, Executive Director of the National Center for Healthy Housing speaks about the healthy homes movement and how it relates to asthma management.
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Part II - Program Evaluation
Brian Kasher and Beth Burton of Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District discuss how they incorporate evaluation into their IAQ Program, and how it has lead to their programmatic success.
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Asthma Disparities in Underserved Populations
Gillian Mittelstaedt from the Tulalip Indoor Air Program and Jerry Hause from the Cowlitz Weatherization Assistance Program in Washington state discuss their experiences controlling asthma in the Northwest and in tribal communities who are disproportionately affected by asthma.
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A Podcast Interview with Nancy Sander, Allergy and Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics
For the past 25 years, Allergy and Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA) has been working to help curb asthma and allergy attacks in children and provide families with the tools and resources needed to control asthma. Nancy Sander, founder of AANMA, speaks about what inspired her to start this organization and how she led the campaign for students to have the right to carry and self-administer their asthma medications at school.
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Part I - Making a Difference in School-Based Asthma Management
Brian Kasher, Manager of Environmental Health and Safety for Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District, and Beth Burton, an Asthma Management Nurse who leads the school district’s asthma education program, discuss how collaboration between their programs helps make a positive difference in addressing asthma throughout their school district.
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Healthy Home, Healthy Child, Inc. - The Westside Children's Asthma Partnership
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How Maine's Public Housing Authorities Became 100% Smoke-Free
More Podcasts
Webinars
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Listen to Amanda Reddy and Margaret Reid describe how their programs have formed effective collaborations to address healthy homes and asthma outcomes. Learn the value of designing a collaborative effort and accounting for results; the benefits of integrating environmental management throughout the continuum of clinical care; and the success behind evaluating strategies, assessments and interventions so that you can take action to increase healthy homes collaboration in your community.
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