| | Breathe Easy: Your Monthly Update |
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| Mid-Bronx Early Childhood Center |
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| Last month, our NYSCAI Team led an in-person asthma education workshop at the Mid-Bronx Early Childhood Center, reaching over 65 early childhood teachers. The workshop focused on building confidence and skills to help staff recognize asthma symptoms, respond to asthma emergencies, and create asthma-friendly classrooms.
We want to thank the Mid-Bronx Early Childhood Center for hosting us and participating in our asthma workshop. Together, we’re working to reduce asthma-related school absences and emergencies and create healthier learning environments for young children. |
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| | | Home-Based Asthma Services Training |
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This month, the NYSCAI Team hosted a Home-Based Asthma Services (HBAS) training, welcoming participants from seven organizations across New York State. We were excited to have attendees from IBERO - American Action League, Community Development Long Island, United Way of Long Island, Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, NYC Reach, Rochester Energy Efficiency & Weatherization, and the American Lung Association. Many of the participating organizations are affiliated with the Social Care Networks (SCNs) who are working to expand access to health-related social need services under the New York Health Equity Reform (NYHER) 1115 Waiver Amendment. These services include asthma self-management education and home remediation services. Partnering SCNs who participated included Forward Leading IPA, Care Compass Collaborative, and Health Equity Alliance of Long Island. Thank you to all who joined the training for your time and engagement! We hope you gained valuable skills in providing asthma self-management education and addressing environmental asthma triggers in the home.
To learn more about NYHER and the Social Care Networks, visit our website at: NYHER Overview – New York State Childrens Asthma Initiative
To register for an upcoming HBAS training, visit: Home-Based Services – New York State Childrens Asthma Initiative |
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| | | | March 20th marks the first day of spring! While the season brings warmer weather and flowers, it can also bring many asthma triggers such as pollen. Follow these steps to help keep your asthma under control: Check your local air quality and pollen count: Avoid outside activities if the air quality is poor or during times when the pollen count is high. Keep windows closed: As the weather gets warmer, use fans or air conditioning instead of opening windows to prevent pollen from entering your home. Be cautious with yard work: Garden during times when the pollen count is lower, consider wearing a mask, and avoid planting flowers with strong odors. Keep your inhaler handy: Always have your rescue inhaler nearby in case you start to have an asthma flare-up.
Visit our website for more resources on asthma management: |
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| | | NYS Asthma Dashboard Updates |
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Dear Asthma Partners:
We are excited to announce that the Asthma Control Program Data Dashboard application on the NYSDOH website: https://www.health.ny.gov/asthmadashboard, has been updated with the most recent and complete data. This dashboard makes asthma-related data easily accessible to program partners, practitioners, health officials, and the public. It is designed to be a key resource for enhancing the utilization of asthma surveillance data and assisting in the response to improve asthma control. Asthma indicators are updated to include 2024 estimates for ED visits, hospitalizations, and several Medicaid Managed Care (MMC) indicators, 2023 for mortality, asthma prevalence, and MMC Quality Assurance Reporting Requirement (QARR) measures. This release incorporates the Office of Science’s Center for Population Health Science novel Census Informed Sub-Regional Schema (CISR). It was developed to take into account the economic and social interaction between counties and communities and informed by local partnership feedback. Asthma indicators at the county level are presented regionally using both the CISR and original Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Program (DSRIP) schemas. Another addition of note in this dashboard release are the new navigation buttons at the top of the state and county dashboards. These have been added for users to more easily locate the visualizations for state and county trends. We hope these will be useful tools for you, and we would like to thank our partners who have contributed data and support in the development and update of this dashboard. Please direct questions and requests for additional information to [email protected]. Sincerely, The New York State Asthma Control Program |
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| | Asthma Home Visit Resources |
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| | Regional Asthma Management & Prevention (RAMP) recently released new tools to support the use of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) to address pests and other asthma triggers identified during asthma home visits. The resources include guidance for residents, asthma home visitors and landlords, such as handouts on IPM supplies and services, a landlord letter template, and a fact sheet on hiring a pest control company for IPM. Visit their website to explore the tools or join their webinar on April 2nd at 11 AM PT for a live overview and Q&A session.
For additional information about delivering asthma self-management education and identifying environmental asthma triggers in the home, check out NYSCAI’s FREE Home-Based Asthma Services Training. |
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| | Take Down Tobacco Day: Tackling Youth Vaping |
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| Join the Tobacco Action Coalition of Long Island and Sohan Shah, Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids Youth Advocate of the Year, for a FREE, informative event on the dangers of youth vaping and how to prevent it. Featuring a youth panel and experts in public health, advocacy, and medicine, this event will equip attendees with the knowledge and tools to help combat youth nicotine addiction.
The event will take place on Thursday, April 16th from 6-8 PM in Westbury, NY. Click the link below for full event details and to register: |
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| | | Tobacco use can significantly worsen asthma symptoms, leading to more frequent and severe asthma flare-ups and a faster decline in lung function. For individuals with asthma, quitting smoking is a critical step toward improving asthma control and protecting long-term lung health.
The New York State Department of Health recently announced the release of a new “StatShot” based on data from the New York Adult Tobacco Survey, 2014-2024, titled “Recommendation to Health Care Providers: Ask, Advise, and Assist Patients to Quit Smoking.” The report highlights the important role health care providers play in supporting tobacco cessation. While receiving assistance from a health care provider can double the odds of successfully quitting, the data shows that just over half of the adults in the study reported being offered assistance to quit smoking. The Tobacco Control Program’s Health Systems for a Tobacco-Free NY initiative aims to partner with medical and mental health care organizations to integrate guideline- and evidence-based tobacco dependence treatment into routine patient care.
The full StatShot report can be found here. For more information about the New York State Tobacco Control Program, visit their website here. |
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2026 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Conference |
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| On February 27th through March 2nd, our NYS Asthma Team was proud to attend the 2026 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) Conference in Philadelphia, PA. We attended sessions discussing the impact of environmental health on asthma outcomes, strategies to manage asthma and comorbid conditions, and emerging trends in asthma genomics. Throughout the weekend, we also spotted several of the Lung Associations’ resources in some of the conference presentations. It was a great opportunity to network with various asthma experts from across the country and we are excited to use all that we learned with our partners statewide. |
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| NYSCAI and our dedicated partners are committed to improving asthma outcomes for children and their families across New York State. We are proud to highlight an asthma success story from one of our valued partners in the Healthy Homes Pilot Program. Through their participation in the program, this family experienced meaningful improvements in their child’s asthma control and management.
Thank you to our partner for sharing this inspiring story. Together, we’re creating measurable improvements and healthier futures for families across NYS! |
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| | Interested in connecting with a member of our team? Please complete the contact form below. |
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