Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma

Supporting Organizations:

Regional Asthma Management Program
2009 H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) Resources

LBACACoalition Meetings, Presentations and News

Calendar
Meet Our Staff
LBACA in the News
v	LBACA has been included on the Pediatric Asthma Web site www.pediatricasthma.org a Web site dedicated to changing the outlook for children with asthma. To learn how LBACA is teaming up with schools, after-school programs and parks to develop asthma-friendly environments and policies, visit www.pediatricasthma.org and choose “Long Beach, CA” under “Local Models.”
v	Struggling to stay healthy: Local organizations help those who can't afford health care, but the cost daunts many.
v	Clean Air Awards
v	Community Activist Resurrect Container Bill Fee
v	Community Forum Deals with lack of Quality Air
v	Health Star Award--Honored Dr. Nicholas
v	Study Links Freeways to Asthma Risk
v	Childhood Asthma Group Honors Supporters
v	A Step Backward in Port Polution
v	They Demand Fresh Air
v	We can Have Clean Air without Punishing Consumers
v	Clean Air Awards 2006

Take the Asthma Test - Click Here

What is the Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma?

The Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma (LBACA), started in 1999, is a partnership to improve the lives of children with asthma in the Long Beach community. LBACA was one of 7 sites in the US and Puerto Rico awarded grants under the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation’s Allies Against Asthma program and is, one of 12 sites in California awarded grants under The California Endowment’s Community Action to Fight Asthma (CAFA) Program, and also recently received funding from the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s British Petroleum Settlement fund to expand its programming into San Pedro, Wilmington and Carson.

What are the coalition’s current activities?

LBACA’s activities include a community health worker home visiting program, an asthma resource center, Physician Asthma Care Education training to improve physician asthma management skills and training medical assistants to provide asthma education to patients at provider sites. LBACA is also teaming up with schools, after-school programs, parks and recreational centers to develop asthma-friendly environments and policies; and mobilizing the community to respond to air quality issues, both indoors and outdoors.

What are the coalition’s long-term objectives?

To change the profile of childhood asthma in the most affected areas of the cities of Long Beach, Carson, Wilmington and San Pedro through improved healthcare delivery and quality, outreach, education, support systems, improved living environments and changes in policy at all levels.
To improve clinical outcomes including reduction in preventable hospitalizations, emergency room visits, and school absenteeism due to asthma, and enhanced quality of life measures.

How to join the coalition and its efforts?

The LBACA coalition meets bi-monthly in various locations throughout the City of Long Beach and is open to any community member, organization, clinic, health promoter or policy maker as long as they abide by the coalition by-laws and protect the coalition’s vision and overarching principles.

To find out information about our next coalition meeting, click here!

v	American Lung Association of California.
v	Breathe California of Los Angeles County.
v	The Children's Clinic.
v	City of Long Beach Dept of Parks and Recreation.
v	Coalition for a Safe Environment.
v	Coalition for Clean Air.
v	Coalition for Environment Health and Justice.
v	Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports
v	Community Asthma & Air Quality Resource Education Project -- LBDHHS.
v	Community Partners Council.
v	Communities for a Better Environment
v	Community Residents.
v	CORAL After School Program.
v	Councilmember Bonnie Lowenthal’s Office.
v	Greater Long Beach YMCA.
v	Head Start.
v	International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
v	Law Office of Thomas Glenn Martin.
v	Legal Aid Foundation.
v	Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services.
v	Long Beach Memorial Medical Center.
v	Long Beach Unified School District.
v	Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
v	Miller Children's Hospital.
v	Parents of children with asthma.
v	Physicians for Social Responsibility.
v	RAMP
v	Smokefree Apartment House Registry.
v	Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center --USC/UCLA.
v	State Senator Alan Lowenthal’s Office
	Current Funders:
v	Community Action to Fight Asthma (CAFA) through The California Endowment
v	Miller Foundation.
v	South Coast Air Quality Management District.
v	The Kresge Foundation
v	USC the IMPACT Project
	Past Funders:
v	Kaiser Permanente.
v	LA Care Health Plan.
v	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Allies Against Asthma
v	The Johnson & Johnson Foundation
v	Josephine S. Gumbiner Foundation.
v	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and The National Institute for Environmental Health through USC Children’s Environmental Health Center.