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Albuquerque is seeking to increase the percentage of
schools in which students’ family or community members have helped develop or
implement asthma management policies and programs.
Activities
- Participate in school health collaborative activities with local, regional,
and state agencies to establish management and support systems necessary to ensure
that policies, procedures, and resources are in place to provide a continuum of
support for asthma within a coordinated school health program.
- Coordinate school, family, and community efforts to better manage asthma
triggers and reduce school absences among students with asthma.
- Collaborate with the New Mexico Department of Health to gather and assess asthma data.
- Collaborate with the Youth Advisory Council in conjunction with other youth-serving organizations to build and maintain a social networking site designed to increase knowledge about asthma management among high school students with asthma and their families.
Albuquerque is seeking to increase the percentage of schools
that provide intensive case management for students with poorly controlled asthma at school.
These intensive services should include all of the following:
- Providing referrals to primary healthcare clinicians or child health insurance programs.
- Ensuring an appropriate written asthma action plan is obtained.
- Ensuring access to and appropriate use of asthma medications, spacers, and peak flow meters at school.
- Offering asthma education for the student with asthma and his or her family.
- Minimizing asthma triggers in the school environment.
- Addressing social and emotional issues related to asthma.
- Providing additional psychosocial counseling or support services as needed.
- Ensuring access to safe, enjoyable physical education and activity.
- Ensuring access to preventive medications before physical activity.
Activities
- Complete a comprehensive campus inspection for indoor-air quality and remediate environmental hazards and triggers for elementary schools and middle schools in partnership with the University of New Mexico and the Environmental Protection Agency.
- Provide professional development and case presentation/management opportunities to all Albuquerque Public School nurses to increase proficiency in asthma management tools and resources in collaboration with the University of New Mexico’s Extension for Community Health Outcomes project.
- Provide Open Airways classes for students in grades 3–5 diagnosed with
moderate to severe asthma at all Albuquerque Public Schools, in partnership with
the American Lung Association.
- Provide individualized asthma management education sessions based on the Kickin Asthma curriculum for middle school students identified as having difficulty managing asthma, in partnership with the American Lung Association.
Albuquerque is seeking to increase the percentage of schools
that provide parents and families of students with asthma information to increase their
knowledge about asthma management.
Activities
- Provide asthma education and resources to the Albuquerque community by partnering at regional community education events and school-site health education events in areas with students most disproportionately affected by asthma.
- Collaborate with the Albuquerque Public Schools Truancy Program to provide asthma management strategies to parents, such as information about asthma management, asthma medications and equipment, exercising with asthma, avoiding triggers, and truancy policies.
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