State Agency Lead Grant Applicant |
Award |
Proposal Synopsis |
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality |
$50,000 |
Increase the ability of childcare facility administrators and
staff to
recognize and reduce the environmental triggers for asthma to which
children in
those care settings are exposed. Develop an effective education,
training, and
outreach model transferable to all childcare facilities in AZ.
Strengthen AZ
institutional capacity to integrate CEH principles into child care
facility
administration and raise public awareness while training staff to
alleviate
environmental risk exposures. |
Idaho Department of Health and Welfare/
Bureau of Community and Environmental Health |
$48,991 |
Increase the understanding of the relationship between field
burning and
asthma and other health effects. Develop and test an integrated
health and
environmental database that can be used for surveillance, research,
and to
inform policy decisions, and to conduct a descriptive study to
determine the
pattern and prevalence of asthma and other respiratory conditions and
cardiac
events during the agricultural burning season. |
Minnesota Department of Health |
$48,795 |
See if addressing environmental factors in the home through
inexpensive,
simple interventions can improve the quality of children’s lives
through fewer
hospitalizations, fewer ER visits and fewer missed school days. Seek
to
demonstrate to health plans that cost-saving value of reimbursement
for these
in-home interventions. Provide families of need the appropriate
environmental
interventions based on documented allergies and assessment of the
home by a
Certified Asthma Educator. |
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection |
$50,000 |
Through education and community outreach the combined resources
of state
agencies and local institutions can build a sustainable, community
based
program for maintaining healthy environment for children. The project
will
incorporate EPA asthma training materials into a Rutgers literacy
program for
residents of an impoverished neighborhood. Through this program, 2-5
Environmental Health Educators will be trained from the community to
teach
families how to make their homes more allergen free through
workshops,
demonstrations, and home assessments. |
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services |
$50,000 |
Ensure that staff from state and local health, environment, and
education
agencies provide consistent and coordinated training and technical
assistance
to address asthma as it relates to indoor environmental factors.
Training on
proper use of TFS Kit and Home Environmental Checklist. Train the
Trainer
workshops for local teams who will perform environmental assessments
on at
least 200 homes, 100 schools, and 200 childcare settings. |
Oklahoma Department of Health |
$50,000 |
Enhance collaboration of health and environmental agencies by
coordination
and joint action to reduce environmental asthma factors in homes of
children in
73109 zip code area of OK City. Train promotores to increase
knowledge and
skill on environmental factors and asthma; Conduct home assessments
in target
area, from assessment data determine high risk homes for
intervention; conduct
intervention including Smoke-free Home Pledge; Evaluate change in
knowledge and
skill of promotores and families. |
Pennsylvania Department of Health |
$41,958 |
Each of the partner organizations will bring the issue of
tobacco smoke
pollution and indoor and outdoor air quality issues and their effect
on
children with asthma to its unique constituency using existing
educational
curricula
and
newly developed
materials. Groups will target daycare
facilities,
Headstart, and SafeKids Safety Car Seat Checks. |
Total |
$339,744 |