Online Program
HEAL Asthma Education Modules Part 3 (Air Quality, Tobacco and E-cigarettes and Fragrance, and Extreme Heat)
Overview:
This is the third HEAL Ashma Education module from Health Resources in Action (HRiA) which includes Policy and Practice related to Indoor Air Quality, Tobacco, E-cigarettes, and Fragrance and Extreme Heat. The speakers are Kate Holmes, MPH, and for the Tobacco presentation, Lex Vazquez, BA.
Contact hours: 2.50 Cost: $25 Length: 2 hours, 30 minutes
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Cost: $ 25.00
Contact Hours 2.50
Objectives:
Policy and Practice Area: Air Quality
- By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Describe the connection between asthma and indoor and outdoor air quality
- Identify policies – federal, state, and local – that impact air quality and support schools to improve air quality
- Identify regulations and standards that support individuals’ understanding of air quality in their community
- Identify best practices to improve air quality and reduce outdoor exposure to air pollution in the school environment
Policy and Practice Area: Tobacco, E-Cigarettes, and Fragrance
- By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Describe the connection between asthma, tobacco/ e-cigarettes, and fragrance.
- Identify elements of comprehensive school tobacco/ e-cigarettes and fragrance policies.
- Identify best practices and tools to promote fragrance-, tobacco-, and e-cigarette-free environments in schools.
- Identify practical next steps and longer-term solutions around promoting fragrance-, tobacco-, and e-cigarette-free environments that school nurses and other key stakeholders can support.
Policy and Practice Area: Extreme Heat
- By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Describe the connection between asthma and extreme heat conditions.
- Identify elements of policies that address extreme heat challenges and concerns.
- Identify best practices and tools for schools to adapt to extreme heat conditions.
- Identify practical next steps and longer-term solutions to preventing heat-related illness in students and staff.
Presenter:
Kate Holmes, MPH is an Associate Director on the Health & Racial Equity team at HRiA. Prior to joining HRiA in 2021, Ms. Holmes worked as a Program Manager at the National Network of Public Health Institutes, mobilizing its national network of 40+ public health institutes to engage in school health initiatives, learning collaboratives, and convenings. Ms. Holmes earned her Master in Public Health in Maternal and Child Health from the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and her Bachelor of Science from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.
Lex Vazquez, BA Community Partner for the Massachusetts Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Program & Program Associate at Health Resources in ActionLex Vazquez joined HRiA in 2020. He is a Program Associate, focusing on the Racial Equity and Leadership Initiative in the City of Boston. He resides in Boston, where he was born and raised. Before joining HRiA, Lex worked as the Assistant Director of the Brookline Arts Center and as the Art Program Coordinator for housing nonprofit Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción in Boston’s South End. He graduated from Parsons School of Design in 2014 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Integrated Design. Lex is passionate about social justice, politics, art, and design.
Presenter Disclosure Statement:None of the planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
At this time, none of the presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. If relevant financial relationships are identified, this information will be shared with learners prior to the educational activity.
Continuing Education Information:
Northeastern University School of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurse Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Provider Number 2016U018
Participants successfully completing this program will receive a statement of credit for contact hours. Statements of Credit may be printed on-line after successful completion of the learning assessment.