Asthma Friendly Schools

Find out how your school can qualify for the PACNJ Asthma Friendly School Award

What Makes a School Asthma Friendly?

• A school is more asthma friendly when all staff work together to provide a safe and healthy school environment to reduce asthma triggers throughout the school.
  

“Kids learn better in a clean and healthy school, it’s everyone’s job”

What Teachers, Staff and Students Can Do	What Administrators Can Do	What Maintenance Staff Can Do

• A school is more asthma friendly when there are statewide policies in place that help children with asthma breathe easier in school. New Jersey has several laws.
  Click here to read about the laws
• New Jersey is leading the way with state policies and practices for asthma friendly schools - see the 2008 Honor Roll for the Nation!
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• Parenting Tips for an Asthma Friendly School Experience

PACNJ Asthma Friendly School Awards

404 New Jersey Schools from 76 districts have received the PACNJ Asthma Friendly School Award.
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Who receives the PACNJ Asthma Friendly School Award?

New Jersey schools, public and private, that complete the following PACNJ Six Steps to Success:

• School nurses complete the PACNJ training on asthma management
• School personnel participate in the PACNJ faculty in-service training on asthma management
• School nurses complete the PACNJ training on the PACNJ Asthma treatment Plan
• District/Private school participates in United State Environmental Protection Agency Tools for Schools training on indoor air quality and sets up an indoor air quality team in each school
• District /Private school takes the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection "No Idling Pledge" to stop school buses from idling when they drop off and pick up students
• Each school has a nebulizer

Find out how your school can qualify for the PACNJ Asthma Friendly School Award

Links to Resources for Schools

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