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North Carolina
EPA Regional Offices
Region 4 - AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN
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Contact: Linda
Thomas-Houston Thomas.Linda@epa.gov
(404) 562-9152 or
1-800-241-1754
EPA Asthma Program Contact List - National Organizations and EPA Regional Offices
(listed in date order)
| Event: | 2008 NC Asthma Summit |
| Date: | 4/17/2008 |
| Location: | Hawthorne Inn and Conference Center, Winston-Salem, NC Website: www.lungnc.org  |
| Description: | The Asthma Alliance of North Carolina invites you to attend the annual North Carolina Asthma Summit. The 2008 Summit will feature the recently released Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma (Expert Review Panel 3), along with interpretation and related application. The Summit will also provide an excellent opportunity for asthma champions throughout North Carolina to showcase success stories and share strategies. |
| Contact: | Caroline Chappell, Asthma Alliance of North Carolina Phone: (919) 707-5209 Email: Caroline.Chappell@ncmail.net |
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| Event: | Air Quality Flag Project Reception |
| Date: | 5/1/2008 |
| Time: | 5:30 - 7:00 pm |
| Location: | Cleveland County Health Department 2nd Floor Conference Room |
| Description: | CCAC is entering its 3rd year flying air quality flags. Schools, daycares, YMCAs, county office buildings, Wal-Mart, Crowders Mountain State Park, and Sheile Nature Museum are some of the participants with presentations addressing the AQI and respiratory health, relationship to asthma, etc. It is an opportune time to increase asthma awareness and the response to our air quality: why monitoring air quality is so important. Our partners need to be recognized. This will be coupled with press and JV. |
| Contact: | Pam Ellwood, FNAC, AE-C, Co-chair, Cleveland County Asthma Coalition 315 E. Grover St., Shelby, NC 28150 Phone: 704-484-5182 Fax: 704-484-5114 Email: pam.ellwood@clevelandcounty.com |
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| Event: | Asthma Awareness Month |
| Date: | 5/1–31/2008 |
| Location: | North Myrtle Beach Elementary School 1283 Hwy. 57 South, Little River, NC 29568 |
| Description: | Education of students and Faculty of Asthma awareness. Video presentations, hand puppet 'Rory the Asthmatic Lion', Asthma Poster Contest for prizes, weekly contest for student answers to asthma questions on children's morning news, parent newsletter information regarding ‘What is Asthma and treatments.' |
| Contact: | June Cane, school health nurse, North Myrtle Beach Elementary School 1283 Hwy. 57 South, Little River, NC 29568 Phone: 843-399-8800 Fax: 843-390-8700 Email: jcane@horrycountyschools.net |
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| Event: | Mission Hospitals, Asthma Disease Management Program |
| Date: | 5/5 – 8/2008 |
| Time: | Varies |
| Location: | Western North Carolina 509 Biltmore Ave., Asheville, NC 28801 |
| Description: | World Asthma Day is done in partnership with PBS/UNC-TV and the local school systems of Western North Carolina. |
| Contact: | Mission Hospitals, Inc. 509 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801 Phone: 828-213-4783 Fax: 828-213-8959 Email: melinda.shuler@msj.org |
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| Event: | Asthma Awareness Month Proclamation from County |
| Date: | 5/6/2008 |
| Time: | 6:00 pm |
| Location: | Government Center 600 East 4th Street, Charlotte, NC Website: www.meckasthma.org |
| Description: | Members of the Mecklenburg County Asthma Coalition and students from the Charlotte Mecklenburg School System will accept a proclamation from the Board Of County Commissioners to make May 2008 Asthma Awareness month in Mecklenburg County. |
| Contact: | Cynthia Conner, Mecklenburg County Asthma Coalition 249 Billingsley Rd, Charlotte, NC 28211 Phone: 704-353-1950 Fax: 704-336-4714 Email: cynthia.conner@carolinashealthcare.org |
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| Event: | Catch the Wind with the Wake County Asthma Coalition... |
| Date: | 5/10/2008 |
| Time: | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm |
| Location: | Pullen Park, Shelter #6 520 Ashe Avenue (Corner of Ashe Ave. and Western Blvd.), Raleigh, NC |
| Description: | In celebration of World Asthma Day and Asthma Awareness Month, the Wake County Asthma Coalition is hosting a Family Picnic at Pullen Park at 520 Ashe Ave. (at the corner of Ashe and Western Blvd. in Downtown Raleigh) ‑ Shelter #6 on May 10th. A program for adults and children is planned from 10am ‑ 12 noon. Families with asthmatic children and/or adults are invited to attend. Families should plan to bring a picnic lunch; beverages and cookies will be provided. There is also an opportunity to make a donation and be entered into a drawing for a full week at Camp Challenge (a camp for asthmatic and diabetic kids ages 7 - 17) and other prizes. Door prizes will also be awarded. Combine fun with an opportunity to learn more about asthma, the Wake County Asthma Coalition and upcoming community projects. |
| Contact: | Deborah Credle-Godwin, Wake County Asthma Coalition Phone: 919-350-7979 Email: dgodwin@wakemed.org |
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| Event: | Dream Team Shares with Hospitalized Children about Asthma |
| Date: | 5/21/2008 |
| Time: | 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Levine Children's Hospital 1000 Blythe Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28203 Website: www.meckasthma.org |
| Description: | High school students are planning a play about living with asthma for children in the hospital. After the play they will participate in a craft related to asthma with the children in the play room. |
| Contact: | Cynthia Conner, Mecklenburg County Asthma Coalition 249 Billingsley Road, Charlotte, NC 28211 Phone: 704-353-1950 Email: cynthia.conner@carolinashealthcare.org |
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