DCAP Newsletter Spring 2011

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Volume 1, Issue 1

DC Asthma Partnership

E-Newsletter



Recognizes

Asthma Awareness Month!

Asthma Awareness MonthPoster Contest AwardsCelebration on Tuesday,May 17, 2011at FriendshipSoutheast Elementary

Academy.

Asthma Awareness MonthEducation Health Fair onThursday, May 19, 2011 at

the Reeves Center.

First Annual DCAP Poster

Contest 2

Social Media Campaign 2

Website Upgrades 2

Overview of DC Asthma

Surveillance System

3

Breathe DC Smoke-Free

Housing Campaign3

Impact DC Asthma Clinic

More Accessible3

Save the Date! 4

Inside this issue:

A World Asthma Day Call

to Action Program and

Interactive Education

Session was held on May

3, 2011 at Friendship

Southeast Elementary

Academy, located at 645Milwaukee Place, S.E.

Washington, DC from

9:30 -11:45 am. The pro-

gram included a brief

presentation by key

speakers including greet-

ings on behalf of Honor-

able Mayor Vincent Gray

by Dr. LaQuandra

Nesbitt, Senior Deputy

Director, DC Department

of Health (DC DOH)

(pictured below) and in-

teractive asthma educa-

tion for students.

Approximately 200 stu-

dents in 3rd-6th grade

received asthma educa-

tion, learned the impor-tance of breathing from

Mama Ayo, and became

hip-hop dancers and rap-

pers as they hip-hopped

to Better Asthma Control.

Additionally, students

were encouraged to enter

the First Annual DC

Asthma Partnership

Poster Contest.

Breathe DC at the United

Medical Center hosted

the event along with thehelp of many DCAP part-ners including DC DOH,

Children’s National Medi-

cal Center/Improving Pe-

diatric Asthma Care in

the District of Columbia

(IMPACT DC), Positive

Energy Works, Alston

Marketing Group,B.E.A.T for Health, and

volunteers from the Rho

Mu Omega Chapter of

Alpha Kappa Alpha So-

rority.

Friendship Public Char-

ter School, a strategic

partner in promoting

school-based asthma

management, is the larg-

est public charter school

system in the District

serving over 6,000 stu-

dents at six campuses.

DCAP Partners with Friendship Public Charter School to Recognize World Asthma Day 2011

Spring 2011

Asthma Education Fair at Reeves Center

In recognition of Asthma Awareness Month, DCAP

will host an educational

fair on May 19th from

9:30 am until 3 pm at the

Reeves Center located at

14th St. and U St., NW.

Attendees will learn more

about asthma care from

healthcare providers,

Medicaid managed care,pharmacists, holistic

practitioners and others!

The fair offers an excel-

lent opportunity for or-

ganizations to arrange an

exhibitor table and pro-

vide services to a valuable

audience of District of

Columbia workers and

communityresidents con-

cerned about

asthma care.

For more in-

formation or to become a

vendor, email DCAP at

info@dcasthmapartnershi

p.org or call 1-800-249-

0343 by March 13, 2010.



links and activities to help peo-

ple with asthma reach “their

personal best”.

A Facebook page for the DCAPto encourage the public to inter-

act with the page.

A “Personal Best Brag Book”

located at the Asthma Aware-

ness Month Education Fair

where people share their per-

sonal best stories through video

- videos to be posted on You

Tube and linked to the web

page.

A contest for the public to email

photos, videos and stories of

themselves when they are at

their personal best and the

AMG team will select the best

stories, photos, videos to share

on other sites i.e. YouTube.

The Alston Marketing Group

(AMG), with funding from the DOH

Preventive Block Grant, will launch

a social media campaign to encour-

age asthma management. People

with asthma will be encouraged to

share with the world when they areat their “personal best.” The social

media campaign will include the

following:

A web page with information

In recognition of World Asthma Day

and Asthma Awareness Month, the

DC Asthma Partnership invitesFriendship Southeast Elementary

Academy students in grades 3, 4,

and 5, to showcase their artistic

talent and their commitment to

asthma awareness by participating

in the First Annual DC Asthma

Partnership Poster Contest.

Students will develop a poster

around a theme related to asthma

self-care:

Use quick-relief meds for no

delay – use controller meds tokeep attacks away.

Stay in the green – know what

your numbers mean.

Keep asthma in line – recognize

the signs.

You’re a winner when you avoid

your triggers.

Take a stand – have a plan.

Judges will use a 100-point scale to

determine 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place

winners for each grade level. Win-ners receive cash prizes: 1st place

($100), 2nd place ($50), 3rd ($25)

and recognition at the Asthma

Awareness Month Poster Contest

Awards Celebration on Tuesday,

May 17, 2011 at Friendship South-

east Elementary Academy. Win-

ners also will receive the honor of

having their artwork displayed at

the Reeves Center during the

Asthma Awareness Month Educa-

tion Fair on May 19, 2011 and dis-

played on the DC Asthma Partner-ship website

www.dcasthmapartnership.org .

sources, including educational mate-

rials, webinars, and other resources.

DCAP partners will be able to login

to submit articles for inclusion into

quarterly newsletters, review work-

group minutes, and check the status

of upcoming meetings. Be sure to

keep checking back over the coming

The DC Asthma Partnership is re-

vamping its website. The website

will be upgraded with new informa-

tion for healthcare providers, par-

ents, students, teachers and school

administrators to help everyone

understand the importance of

asthma management. The new site

will include updated asthma re-

weeks as more information is

added!

Questions or comments? Call the

DC Asthma Partnership using our

new toll-free number 1-800-249-

0343 or email the Partnership at

our new email address:

[email protected].

DCAP Launches Social Media Campaign

First Annual DCAP Poster Contest Encourages Kids to Showcase

Artistic Talent and Commitment to Asthma Awareness

Technological Upgrades for DCAP Website

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The District of Columbia, Asthma

Control Program, DC Control Asthma Now (DC CAN) uses differ-

ent kinds of data to describe how

many people live with asthma in

the Nation’s Capital. These data

are used by healthcare profession-

als, lawmakers and community-

based organizations to develop spe-

cific programs and policies to help

improve the quality of life for people

who live with asthma. Each data

source represents a unique piece of

the puzzle.

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveil-lance System (BRFSS) is a tele-

phone survey tracking health condi-

tions and risk behaviors in the

United States. Data are collected

monthly in the District of Columbiaand all 50 states. The survey in-

cludes questions used to estimate

the prevalence of asthma for Dis-

trict adults and children. Preva-

lence is the number of people told

by a doctor that they have asthma.

Data are also available on behaviors

that may make asthma worse in-

cluding smoking.

Recently, the BRFSS began the Asthma Call-back Survey

(ACBS), an in-depth telephone sur-

vey of adults and children withasthma. The data in this survey

describe many health experiences

for persons who report they have

asthma. Data include number of

doctor’s visits, medication use,training for taking care of asthma

and triggers that make asthma

worse. (continued on page 4)

Each year the Children's emergency

department (ED) at the main hospitallocation (Michigan Avenue, NW) has

8,000-10,000 visits from patients that

live in neighborhoods around United

Medical Center, and now children

living in these communities can re-

ceive the same quality care closer to

home.

IMPACT DC has experienced high

demand for asthma care at this loca-

In December 2010, IMPACT DC

Asthma Clinic began operating atthe new emergency department op-

erated by CNMC at United Medical

Center (UMC). This state-of-the-art,

full-service emergency department

was opened in 2010. The satellite

emergency department is open 24

hours a day, 7 days a week, and is

staffed by doctors, nurses, and clini-

cal care team members from the

Children's National Medical Center.

tion. The IMPACT DC Asthma Clinic

operates at United Medical Center on

Thursday mornings in collaboration

with the primary care team at

THEARC. The IMPACT DC Asthma

Clinic has received nearly 100 refer-

rals from ED providers at UMC, and

has seen over 40 new families at this

location in 2011.

Breathe DC at United Medical Center Initiate a Smoke-Free Housing

Campaign By Daniel Weisshaar, Breathe DC at UMC

Piecing Together the Puzzle of Asthma in the District of Columbia: Overview of the Asthma Surveillance SystemBy LaVerne Jones, DC DOH, DC CAN

IMPACT DC Asthma Clinic More Accessible By Deborah Quint, IMPACT DC

adopt smoke free public housing

measures.

Health and community advocatesagree that smoking and secondhand

smoke exacerbates asthma and

other respiratory diseases. How-

ever, only about 140 public housing

developments across the country

(about 4%) have reported that they

have voluntarily banned smoking in

the units they manage. When suc-

cessful, Breathe DC’s smoke-free

public housing campaign will lead

DC to the cutting edge of anti-

smoking policy throughout public

housing developments in the city.

For more information contact

Daniel Weisshaar at 202-574-7033

or [email protected] or Charles

Debnam at 202-574-6920 or

[email protected].

On March 15, 2011, Breathe DC

initiated a smoke-free public hous-

ing campaign with funding provided

by the CDC’s Communities Putting

Prevention to Work (CPPW) grant

and made available through the DC

Department of Health. Breathe DC

is partnering with community and

resident leaders in 4 public housing

developments in Wards 5 through 8,

in an effort to empower residents to

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Behavioral Risk

Surveillance

Survey

Vital Records-

Mortality

Inpatient Hospital Discharge

Emergency

Department

mailto:[email protected]





Vital Records Mortality Data

describe the number of people who

die due to asthma. In the past, the

District has had only a small num-

ber of people who died because of

asthma, but these data tell someinformation about who those resi-

dents are.

In future issues of the DC Asthma

Partnership Newsletter, data from

each of these datasets will be pre-

sented to explain the various pieces

of the asthma puzzle. The DC CAN

staff is also available to provide spe-

cific information for researchers,

program staff and policy makers.

The Surveillance Workgroup of the

DC Asthma Partnership plays animportant role in setting priorities

Emergency Department Visit

Data informs public health and

health care providers of the people

needing immediate attention for

asthma symptoms. These data are

collected from all the District’semergency departments and include

date and time of visit and whether

the patient goes home or stays in

the hospital after the visit. These

data give clues of what children and

adults need assistance in control-

ling their asthma.

The Inpatient Hospital Dis-

charge Data describes who has to

stay in the hospital due to asthma –

related symptoms. These data in-

clude the length of hospital stays,other health conditions and some

costs of treating asthma.

for collecting and reporting data

that the public can use. In order to

make the most useful data avail-

able, the workgroup needs mem-

bers from all sides of the data puz-

zle. Representatives from agenciesthat collect current data, as well

as, data users are needed to decide

what information is needed to

guide future work to improve the

health and quality of life of people

with asthma.

For more information on data re-

sources or joining the Surveillance

Workgroup, please contact

LaVerne Jones

[email protected]).

Piecing Together the Puzzle of Asthma (continued from page 3)

The DC Asthma Partnership (DCAP) is a public-private partnership. Its mission is to

reduce asthma morbidity and mortality and

to improve the quality of life for residents of the District of Columbia. The DCAP

includes more than 80 public and private

agency representatives.

Save the Date!

DC CAN Steering Committee Meeting to be held on

May 26, 2011 from 2-4 pm.

Location to be announced.




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