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PERFORMANCE PROJECT PLANNING TEMPLATE SUMMARY PAGE

PERFORMANCE PROJECT PLANNING TEMPLATE SUMMARY PAGE

PROJECT TITLE: Reducing Obstacles to Asthma Prevention and Control in Child Care Centers

Health Area: Respiratory Project Abstract:
To determine and to mobilize resources toward action steps we should take and policy recommendations we should make to ensure that young children with asthma, who are in child care settings will be encouraged to actively participate in all activities, will have appropriate health support available to meet their care requirements, and will enjoy an asthma-friendly environment.
Healthy People 2010 Primary Objective 24-7. Increase the proportion of persons with asthma who receive appropriate asthma care according to the NAEPP guidelines.
24-6. Increase the proportion of persons with asthma who receive formal patient edcuation, including information about community and self-help resources as an essential part of the management of their condition.
24-4. Reduce activity limitations among persons with asthma.
24-5. Reduce the number of school or work days missed by persons with asthma due to asthma.
NHLBI Performance Goals & Objectives
  • Promote Asthma Awareness
  • Implement Community Asthma Programs and Policies
  • Project Objective(s) To develop and conduct a needs assessment of child care centers to establish an action agenda for improving asthma management in child care settings.

    Project Strategy The first step is to conduct a needs assessment that will identify: key organizations and thought leaders in child care that the NAEPP should network and partner with; barriers to and effective strategies for improving asthma management in child care centers; materials or programs on asthma that are already available and being used; and, what types of materials and dissemination pathways are most useful to move child care centers toward taking recommended actions.

    Activities/Actions:
    1. Identify the key stakeholders to contact for the needs assessment
    2. Develop a set of "core quesitons" for the needs assessement based on the "How Asthma-Friendly is Your Child Care Setting Checklist"
    3. Conduct the needs assessment by phone interview
    4. Collate the data and develop conclusions
    5. Develop a summary report that includes a set of action steps in response to the findings of the needs assessment
    Performance Measures Performance Measures:
    1. Percentage of persons/organizations interviewed form the
    identified list.
    2. Robustness of the list of needs and identified barriers.
    3. Development of specific recommendaitons for a plan of action
    indicating activities most appropriate to be carried out by an
    individual organizaiton, by a partnership of organizations, and by
    the collective body fo the NAEPP.

    Performance Indicators:
    1. Identify at least 3 needs that are priority issues.
    2. Identify at least 2 barriers for which solutions can be developed.
    3. Recommend 3-4 activities that organizations can implement, either
    individulaly or in partnership.
    4. Recommend at least 2 activities that require the collective
    resources of the NAEPP.
    Performance Partners American School Health Association
    Allergy and Asthma Network/Mothers of Asthmatics
    American Association for Respiratory Care
    American Lung Association
    American Medical Association
    American Public Health Association
    Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
    Head Start Bureau
    Healthy Kids: The Key to Basics
    Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
    National Association of School Nurses
    National Center for Environmental Health
    National Education Association Health Information Network
    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
    National School Boards Association
    Society for Public Health Education
    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency




    Archived page, reproduced from a 2001 copy. It is reference material, not current guidance.