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Asthma Coalition of Los Angeles County
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Mission
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| The mission of the Asthma Coalition of Los Angeles County is to prevent and alleviate pediatric asthma by addressing environmental factors in the home that trigger the disease, and advocate for policies and practices that encourage reduction of in-door and out-door triggers. Because substandard housing conditions contribute to asthma triggers, we also work toward creating synergy between coalition members and housing advocates, and deliver tenant rights education. |
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Objectives
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1. Case manage asthma patients
2. Educate families on disease management and trigger
abatement
3. Connect families with advocacy efforts and resources
for managing asthma
4. Protect tenants seeking repairs from eviction
5. Cultivate organizing / campaign consciousness among all
levels of asthma and housing staff
6. Raise lawmakers’ and housing industry awareness of
the asthma-housing connection; propose policy
solutions
7. Use outcome data, accounts from patients, clinicians,
and case managers to show cost savings realized by
prevention and health education over acute/chronic
care
8. Improve mechanisms for referrals and information
collection and exchange between clinical caregivers
and other service providers
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Partners
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The Asthma Coalition of Los Angeles County partners with many grass roots organizations, public health groups, and governmental agencies. One of the main research groups we collaborate with on air quality research is the Southern California Environmental Health Science Center (SCEHSC). Andrea Hricko and Rob McConnel are prominent expert in the environmental and public health movement and co-authored the well known asthma studies, “The Children’s Health Study” and “Breathless in Los Angeles: The Exhausting Search for Clean Air” published in the American Journal of Public Health. They can be reached at:
Southern California Environmental Health Science Center (SCEHSC)
Andrea Hricko, MPH
Director for Community Outreach and Education Program
1540 Alcazar Street, CHP 236
Los Angeles, CA. 90033
Phone: 323. 442-3077
FAX: 323. 442-3272
ahricko@usc.edu
Rob S. McConnell, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Preventive Medicine
1540 Alcazar Street, Suite 236
Los Angeles, CA. 90033
Phone: 323.442.1593
FAX: 323.442.3272
rmcconne@usc.edu |
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Regularly Scheduled Meetings
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The Asthma Coalition of Los Angeles County meets quarterly. The next meeting is scheduled for Monday, October 22, 2007 from 1:00 to 3:30 PM at First 5 Los Angeles 750 N. Alameda Street, Suite 300 Los Angeles, CA 90012
For more information about the meeting, please contact:
Kathye Petters-Armitage, M.P.H., C.L.E
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Maternal, Child, & Adolescent Health Programs
600 S. Commonwealth Ave., Suite 800
Los Angeles, CA 90005
Tel: 213-639-6414
Fax: 213-639-1034
Email: karmitage@ph.lacounty.gov |
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Staff
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St. John’s Well Child and Family Center
Jim Mangia
Chief Executive Director
St John’s Well Child & Family
515 West 27th Street
Los Angeles, CA. 90007
Phone: 213.749-0947
FAX: 213.749.7354
jimmangia@wellchild.org
Esperanza Community Housing Corporation
Nancy Halpern Ibrahim
Community Health Program Director
2337 S. Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA. 90007
Phone: 213.748.7285 Ext. 13
FAX: 213.748.9630
nancy@esperanzachc.org
Strategic Action for a Just Economy (SAJE)
Gilda Haas
Executive Director,
2636 Kenwood Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
ghaas@saje.net
323-732-9961 ext. 202
FAX: 323.733.8831 |
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Contact
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For more information about the Asthma Coalition of Los Angeles County, please contact
Jim Mangia
Chief Executive Director
St John’s Well Child & Family
515 West 27th Street
Los Angeles, CA. 90007
Phone: 213.749-0947
FAX: 213.749.7354
jimmangia@wellchild.org
Kathye Petters-Armitage, M.P.H., C.L.E
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Maternal, Child, & Adolescent Health Programs
600 S. Commonwealth Ave., Suite 800
Los Angeles, CA 90005
Tel: 213-639-6414
Fax: 213-639-1034
Email: karmitage@ph.lacounty.gov |
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