The Connecticut Children’s Asthma Center at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center has received a $381,060 federal grant to advance asthma care for children.
The grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health will enable the Asthma Center to create the Hartford Collaborative for Asthma Equity in Children.
The collaborative will create an “asthma neighborhood” to collectively support families by identifying children with asthma who are at high risk for poor outcomes, empowering families through asthma education, and improving care through a new communication and information sharing platform, according to a CCMC news release.
The collaborative will comprise researchers, families affected by asthma, the faith community, physicians, schools, pharmacies, community organizations and other stakeholders.
The collaborative also will launch a clinical trial integrating four proven programs into a new model of care for children: the Easy Breathing asthma-management program; a school-based asthma-management program; a home visitation program adapted to asthma; and the Connecticut Children’s Healthy Homes program, which addresses the health and safety needs of children in their home environments.
If the clinical trial is successful, the Asthma Center plans to apply for an additional grant to launch the program in Hartford and three other Connecticut communities.
