Asthma in Schools - Tools and Resources

Is Your School Asthma Friendly? A Michigan Infographic
Share Michigan asthma and school facts and resources with school staff and administrators using this infographic.
School-based Asthma Management Program (SAMPRO™) and Toolkit
The goal of SAMPRO™ is to improve health and school-related outcomes for children with asthma, using school-based partnerships that focus on integrated care coordination amongst families, clinicians and school nurses. SAMPRO™ advocates four components to integrate schools, and specifically school nurses, within the asthma care team:

The creation of a Circle of Support amongst the families, clinicians and schools nurses centered around the child with asthma
The creation and transmission of Asthma Management Plans to schools
A comprehensive Asthma Education Plan for school personnel
A comprehensive Environmental Asthma Plan to assess and remediate asthma triggers at home and in school.

If there is not a nurse at your school, these tasks should be assigned to an appropriate staff member. This staff member should receive training in asthma basics, management and emergencies. For information on how to get asthma training, learn more from the NHLBI about what can be done.

AIM School Packet Project
Health information kits titled "Never Judge a Book by Its Cover, and Other Important Lessons About Asthma" were developed to disseminate accurate asthma information to Michigan schools. The packets are tailored to specific school staff. Click on the links below to find out how very serious asthma can be to a student.
Healthy School Assessment Tool (HSAT)
The HSAT is an online assessment to help your school determine ways to create a healthier school environment. If you represent a Michigan school and want to determine what you can do to improve your school's health, visit the HSAT website and find out how to complete the assessment.
Asthma Friendly Schools Initiative (American Lung Association)
The Asthma-Friendly Schools Initiative Toolkit is a planning tool based on real-life activities that have been used in schools throughout the United States to create comprehensive asthma management systems.
NHLBI Managing Asthma: A guide for schools
With this guide, you can put a simple-to-follow asthma-friendly program in place in your school. You will be able to brief teachers, coaches, guidance counselors, school nurses, and even the principal on their special role in making your school asthma-friendly.

Tools for Schools
The Tools for Schools Action Kit provides best practices, industry guidelines, sample policies and a sample IAQ management plan to improve school air at little or no cost.
Clean School Bus USA
Clean School Bus USA brings together partners from business, education, transportation, and public-health organizations to work toward encouraging policies and practices to: 1) eliminate unnecessary public school bus idling, 2) upgrading ("retrofitting") buses that will remain in the fleet with better emission-control technologies and/or fueling them with cleaner fuels, and 3) replacing the oldest buses in the fleet with new, less-polluting buses.