Breathe California Honors World Asthma Day
In honor of World Asthma Day on May 1st, Breathe California joined community members and partners throughout the Bay Area to kick off a host of May activities designed to educate the public about the chronic lung disease.
Locally, Breathe California puts its efforts into organizing workshops to teach parents and children how to manage their asthma. Starting at Cassell Elementary School in San Jose on World Asthma Day, our agency brought close to half-of-a-dozen workshops to schools and other community locations throughout the South Bay, including the Center for Employment Training and San Juan Bautista Child Development Center. Led by a trained asthma facilitator, the workshops provided an opportunity for parents and children with asthma to learn how to better control their disease. Through a variety of fun activities for the children and informative sessions for the parents, participants learned how to identify their asthma triggers, recognize common warning signs, properly take their medication and cope with an attack. The agency will also be hosting its quarterly Parents of Asthmatic Children meeting at the Children’s Discovery Museum on the evening of Thursday May 24th.
In addition, Breathe California also participated in a number of activities in other Bay Area communities. In San Francisco, our agency collaborated to host an event at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital for the San Francisco Asthma Network (a citywide network of clinicians working with asthma patients) seeking to raise the standard of asthma care in San Francisco. Breathe California also joined the San Mateo County Asthma Coalition in recognizing three Peninsula child care sites for their exemplary efforts to provide a safe and healthy environment for their asthma children.
To learn more about this year’s World Asthma Day events or if you’re interested in partnering with Breathe California on asthma-related programs, please call us at (408) 998-5865.