American Lung Association Of The Southwest Inc

Programs: Tobacco:we are working diligently to eliminate tobacco use and tobacco-related lung disease. Our program, education, and advocacy efforts prevent teens from starting to smoke, limit youth access to tobacco, help teens and adults to quit smoking, and reduce everyone's exposure to secondhand smoke. Over the past decade we have reached more than 26,000 young people with youth tobacco prevention programming. Meanwhile, we helped more than 2,200 in their journey to end their addiction to tobacco use through our unique teen smoking cessation program.

lung cancer, asthma, copd and other lung diseases:the american lung association's work in the areas of lung cancer, lung disease and asthma in fy14 include:the launch of lung force, an initiative to make lung cancer a national priority, educate and empower patients, caregivers and healthcare providers and raise critical funds for lung cancer research; digital resources were developed and improved to serve adults newly diagnosed with lung cancer. Our website, www. Mylungcancersupport. Org, offers support and tools for patients from day one. Our share your story campaign highlighted stories of hope and helped put a face on lung cancer. Our online screening tool www. Lungcancerscreeningsaveslives. Org, helps those at risk understand whether they are eligible for lung cancer ct screening, an important advance that will save lives. Our online cancer and lung disease support community www. Connection. Lung. Org, helps patients get support from peers who are going through many of the same issues related to asthma, copd and lung cancer. Peer support improves quality of life for patients with chronic disease; our lung helpline served more than 4,000 individuals in the southwest, with answers, resources and support to lung health and smoking cessation questions; our open airways for schools program provided education and support to 550 children with asthma and their families in the southwest while our asthma basics online course helped parents of children with asthma, school personnel, and adults with asthma with information and tools to improve asthma management; our 50 better breathers clubs in the southwest region provided adults living with copd and their caregivers with valuable support and information to help them manage their disease; nationwide, we provided lung health educational support to more than 100,000 people.

environmental health and advocacy:we strive to improve the quality of the air we breathe so that it does not cause or worsen lung disease. As such, we work with clean cities, local government air quality controls districts, and other advocacy coalitions and partnerships to promote reduced transportation impacts and increased use of renewable fuels and green energy. Recently, our denver metro clean cities coalition, received recognition from the us department of energy for its leadership of more than 105 statewide partners working to prepare colorado for expanded adoption of electric vehicles. We also advocate at the federal, state, tribal, county and municipal levels to maintain and monitor enforcement of existing protective standards and implementation of air pollution mitigation options.

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