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PACNJ
News:
Read the Press Release about the Newark Award Ceremony
Read about the May 3,
2005 Making a Difference Award from AANMA
Read the press release about the "Making a Difference Award"
Early Childhood Health Link Newsletter, Winter 2006
features two articles about PACNJ
January, 2005 - PACNJ partners with the Trenton Coalition for
Healthy Schools to create Top Ten Lists about how to handle asthma
and a related training module.
Read an article from
the NJEA.
January, 2004 --
PEDIATRIC/ADULT
ASTHMA COALITION OF NEW JERSEY RECEIVES GRANT FROM AETNA
FOUNDATION FOR ASTHMA MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
UNION, N.J. — The Pediatric/Adult
Asthma Coalition of New Jersey (PACNJ) recently received a $28,000
grant from the Aetna Foundation to create an “Asthma Education
Training and
Bilingual Resource Kit”
for child care providers. The grant was awarded as part of
Aetna’s series of initiatives to assess and track racial and
ethnic disparities in health care and develop interventions that
improve the quality of care for minority members. For children
under five, the prevalence of asthma cases has increased over 160%
in the last fifteen years. Minority children living in urban areas
are particularly at risk for poor health care and have a higher
incidence of asthma. In addition, many of these children are in
child care. According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of
America, more than 13 million children age five and under in the
United States are currently in child care, and 1.4 million of
these children are estimated to have asthma. Yet most child care
providers have little or no training on how to manage asthma.
The “Asthma Education Training
and Bilingual Resource Kit” gives child care providers
in both center-based and family child care settings medically
accurate information for asthma management; as well as the tools
needed to facilitate communication between parents, child care
providers and health care providers. Presently, the PACNJ is
developing the program to incorporate an asthma management
training program and a Bilingual Resource Kit specifically for
child care providers.
The
Resource Kit will include a bilingual Spanish/English
video, produced by Gladys Bensimon, President of
HBR Productions an
award winning film and video production company with extensive
experience in the health and social awareness fields. Staff and
children from the Riverfront Child Care Center of the Family Y of
Burlington, Respond Inc. and the Camden County Division for
Children will be featured in the video.
The kit will also include a poster demonstrating how to respond to
an asthma emergency, an Asthma Action Plan for children under
five, and guidelines for communicating with parents. The program
will be piloted in the fall of 2004, in three of New Jersey’s
counties – Burlington, Camden and Mercer. For more
information, contact PACNJ at 1-866-PACNJ-88.
The PACNJ was created by the American Lung Association of
New Jersey and the New
Jersey Thoracic Society in 2000, in an effort to build a statewide
clearinghouse for asthma information and services. With over 130
members on six task forces, the PACNJ is working with schools,
child care providers, physicians, health insurers, community
groups and environmental agencies to reach all of New Jersey’s
children and adults with the most effective methods for managing
their asthma. For more information log onto
www.pacnj.org.
April 30, 2002 -
Pediatric Asthma Coalition of New Jersey receives Environmental
Quality Award from the EPA, Region 2.
Read the
full story.
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