Control Asthma Triggers

• United States Environmental Protection Agency
  Keys to Preventing Your Child’s Attacks
  
• Children’s Health Environment Coalition’s  “HealtheHouse”
  Take a virtual tour
  
• American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Triggers
  General information
  
• American Lung Association
  Information about asthma triggers

Fun for Kids

• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Kids Pages:
  Learn about triggers while you play games

Know the Air Quality in Your Area

• Air Quality Alerts for New Jersey
  Visit  the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for daily air
  quality reports and information on air quality 1-800-782-0160
  
• New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection also has a
  link for an e-mail advisory list serve for unhealthy air quality and
  a section that gives you information about “what you can do” to
  reduce air toxics
  
• Indoor Air Quality
  United States Environmental Protection Agency resources on
  Indoor Air Quality Air Now, a national government report on 
  Air Quality
  
• Pollen
  American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology
  Allergy Index

Other Resources

• Diesel Emissions – Stop the Soot Program
  New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Initiative to reduce harmful diesel soot during the next decade
  
• Tobacco Control
  The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services Comprehensive Tobacco Control Program has a page on “Helping Smokers Quit” with links to NJ Quitnet, NJ Quitline, NJ Quitcenters, and information on youth cessation

PACNJ Environmental Task Force
Goal: Promote good indoor and outdoor air quality to improve quality of life for individuals with asthma

Co-chair
Larainne Koehler
United States Environmental Protection Agency Region II

Co-chair
Lisa Jones, MSN, RN
New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services

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