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Clinical Services (Community Asthma Initiative):
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Asthma Basics
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While taking medication and attending to environmental concerns are key, knowledge about
the condition and its management is also an essential tool for reducing the frequency and
severity of asthma attacks and living a healthy and active life. The Asthma Basics session, facilitated by Amy Burack, is intended to spread that knowledge.
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Amy Burack, RN, MA, AE-C, is the Community Asthma Programs Manager at Children's Hospital Boston, where she has been a Certified Asthma Educator since 2001. She brings a passion and expertise to asthma advocacy and education, and facilitates a productive and fun conversation about asthma management like no one else.
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Asthma Basics is a 90-minute educational session filled with useful information on asthma and asthma self-management, including:
physiology
signs and symptoms
triggers and environmental factors
medications
delivery devices
Asthma Action Plans
The session is casual and interactive, and welcomes both questions and discussion among all participants.
Children's believes that when our community is healthy, with access to services and programs that focus on disease prevention, then our children will be healthier, too. Therefore, as part of our commitment to community health, we are pleased to offer this session to the public free of charge.
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The session is for any group of adults with children in their personal or professional lives who have been diagnosed with asthma. This includes parents, guardians, siblings, coaches, teachers, day care providers? you name it. The group must meet in Boston. For the convenience of the hosting organizations and those attending, the Asthma Basics session can be scheduled for the morning, afternoon or evening.
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You provide:
10 adult participants whose lives are touched by children with asthma
a location (e.g. classroom, home, church) within Boston, reserved for 90 minutes
a desire to help the children with asthma in your life thrive
We provide:
an asthma expert to lead the session
techniques to help children with asthma lead healthy, active lives
a variety of written materials and asthma resources
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It?s easy. Just call Amy at 617-919-3069, or email her at amy.burack@childrens.harvard.edu.
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