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EPA to announce grant funding for Oakland, Calif. health nonprofit to help fight asthma in schools nationwide

Release Date: 12/15/2014
Contact Information: Suzanne Skadowski, 415-972-3165, [email protected]

SAN FRANCISCO – On December 17, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator will announce a major grant award to the Public Health Institute’s Regional Asthma Management & Prevention, in Oakland, Calif. to help school-based health centers nationwide prevent and manage environmental asthma triggers for children at school and at home. Asthma, a chronic respiratory disease that causes the lung’s airways to swell and narrow, leading to wheezing, coughing, and shortness of breath, is the most common chronic disease among school-aged children. EPA will announce the grant at the West Oakland Middle School LifeLong Health Center, one of over 230 school-based health centers in Calif. and 2,000 nationwide that will benefit from the grant project.

WHO:

U.S. EPA Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld
Regional Asthma Management & Prevention (RAMP) Director Anne Kelsey-Lamb
California School-Based Health Alliance (CSHA) Associate Director Kristin Andersen
West Oakland Middle School and LifeLong Health Center officials, staff and students

WHEN:

Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014 (10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.)

WHERE:

West Oakland Middle School LifeLong Health Center, 991 - 14th St, Oakland, Calif.

RSVP REQUIRED:

Credentialed press who would like to attend should email [email protected] to RSVP with your name, cell or email info, and media affiliation.