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Research & Projects
Citywide Community Asthma Management Program (CitiCAMP)
The CitiCAMP Program, funded by the New York City Department of Health (NYCDOH) in partnership with the NYCDOH Citywide Childhood Asthma Initiative, worked to reduce the burden of asthma on communities at-risk. CitiCAMP worked to empower families, schools, communities and institutions to manage and prevent asthma.
CitiCAMP provided support to community-based organizations funded by the NYCDOH Citywide Childhood Asthma Initiative by providing assistance in needs assessment, program development, health education, staff development, technical assistance and performance evaluation to community-based efforts. To date, CitiCAMP has worked with 17 community-based organizations that have been funded to participate in the citywide asthma partnership. CitiCAMP has helped these organizations develop their organizational capacity to add asthma to the menu of services they provide to their service population. Many of these community-based organizations serve culturally or ethnically isolated communities that have been historically difficult to reach through traditional medical approaches, including communities with large newly-immigrant populations. The CitiCAMP program has helped community-based organizations develop culturally sensitive and appropriate health education programs and educational materials in several languages and for a variety of cultures, including Latino, Polish, Jewish and Jamaican communities.
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