Our Mission
The NYS Department of Health’s Asthma Control Program is partnering with the American Lung Association through a state-funded contract to implement the NYS Children’s Asthma Initiative. This five-year initiative broadly aims to improve asthma-related health outcomes and quality of life among children with asthma and their families/caregivers living in New York State.
About Us
The NYS Children’s Asthma Initiative is focused on serving NY’s highest asthma burden regions, as defined by high asthma emergency department (ED) and hospitalization rates among individuals aged 0 to 24 and/or regions having a high percentage of NYS total asthma-related ED visits/hospitalizations. With over 60% of NY’s total asthma-related ED visits and hospitalizations occurring in the Bronx, New York, Kings, and Queens Counties, implementing EXHALE strategies in these counties is a top priority. Additional priority counties are identified using the NYS Asthma Dashboard, an asthma surveillance tracking tool that provides the latest available asthma data at state, county, and/or ZIP code level(s). Visit the NYS Asthma Dashboard for more information on how this key resource is used for assessing asthma burden and tracking intervention progress in NYS.
The New York State Asthma Control Program
New York is one of 25 state, territorial, and municipal partners funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to improve the reach, quality, effectiveness, and sustainability of asthma control services with the goal of reducing asthma morbidity, mortality, and disparities. The NYS Children’s Asthma Initiative (NYSCAI) seeks to advance CDC’s National Asthma Control Program’s EXHALE Technical Package. The EXHALE package consists of six evidence-based, cost-effective strategies shown to reduce asthma burden and avoidable asthma related ED visits and hospitalizations.
How We Make A Difference
The NYS Asthma Control Program, in collaboration with the American Lung Association’s NYSCAI, convenes a wide range of strategic partners and key stakeholders across multiple sectors including education, housing, environment, transportation, and healthcare to collectively work towards achieving these goals:
- Promote health equity in asthma care and address health-related social needs for children with asthma and their families
- Convene multi-sector partners under the Asthma Partnership of New York (APNY) to expand adoption of EXHALE strategies across New York State and advocate for funding and policies supportive of asthma control
- Advance delivery of guidelines-based asthma care through dissemination of a standardized asthma health systems quality improvement framework, Project BREATHE NY
- Expand access to healthy homes interventions inclusive of environmental trigger reduction and home-based asthma self-management education
- Ensure availability of school-based asthma self-management education programs and support for students with asthma
- Link organizations to ensure asthma care is coordinated across clinical and community settings
- Strengthen New York’s asthma care workforce by coordinating training, and providing education and health literate communication tools for providers and individuals with asthma
The Asthma Partnership of New York (APNY)
The Asthma Partnership of New York (APNY), convened by the New York State Asthma Control Program in partnership with the American Lung Association, provides a statewide infrastructure positioned to engage multi-sector partners and key stakeholders dedicated to reducing the burden of asthma in New York.
NYS Asthma Surveillance
Additional priority counties are identified using the NYS Asthma Dashboard, an asthma surveillance tracking tool that provides the latest available asthma data at state, county, and/or ZIP code level(s). Visit the NYS Asthma Dashboard for more information on how this key resource is used for assessing asthma burden and tracking intervention progress in NYS.