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Capability: Community Engagement and Health Education

Project Timeline: 2004-2012

Asthma prevalence is a significant health concern in California, with nearly four million Californians suffering from asthma at some point in their lifetime. Based on data from the California Health Interview Survey, the lifetime asthma prevalence in 2001 was nearly 12%.  This results in 40,000 hospitalizations in California due to asthma.  Asthma also has significant health disparity concerns.  The hospitalization rate for African Americans is nearly four times higher for African-American children compared to Whites.

In 2004, the Sequoia Foundation teamed with the California Department of Public Health to  administer the Strategic Plan Implementation Grants (SPRIG) to support local organizations in addressing asthma in their communities.  Between 2004-2007, SPRIG  awarded  thirty-four grants ranging from $1,000 to $15,000.  Funded programs have utilized the grants to conduct direct asthma education in underserved populations.  In 2010, the SPIG deepened its commitment to community education by funding four CBOs at $40,000 a year for two years.

Projects

  1. Environmental Health Symposium for Promotores and Community Health Workers
  2. Palos Verdes Shelf Fish Contamination Project
  3. San Francisco Bay Fish Project
  4. Improve Low Rates of Childhood Lead Screening Amongst Health Care Providers
  5. Effectiveness of a Large Prenatal Tobacco Reduction Program
  6. California's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
  7. Collection of Dried Blood Spots from Children for the Examination of CMV
  8. PBDE/Breast Milk Monitoring
  9. Early Childhood Mortality Study
  10. Preterm Markers Study-2006/07
  11. Maternal and Infant Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth: the Inflammatory Response
  12. Preterm Markers Study-2009/10
  13. Development of a Research-Ready Pregnancy and Newborn Biobank in California
  14. National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center
  15. Newborn Blood Spots, Collaborative Project with UCD Public Health Sciences Department
  16. Environmental and Molecular Epidemiology of Childhood Leukemia
  17. Evaluation of the Partnership for Smoke-Free Families Program
  18. Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth Study
  19. Outcome Prediction in Children with Positive California Cystic Fibrosis Newborn Screening
  20. Prenatal and Neonatal Biologic Markers for Autism
  21. Ascertain Environmental Exposure During Pregnancy
  22. Enhancing the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program
  23. CA Title 17 Analysis: Training/Certifying Renovation, Remodeling, and Painting Activities
  24. Children's Health Initiative - Impacts of Childhood Asthma in California
  25. Prenatal Smoke Exposure and Age at Menarche
  26. Selection In Utero: A Test of Competing Explanations
  27. iCARE General Population File
  28. Case-Control Study of Maternal and Infant Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth
  29. California's Chronic Disease Environmental Health Surveillance System
  30. Design of California's Response and Surveillance System for Childhood Lead Exposures (RASSCLE II) System
  31. Data Mapping California's Blood Lead Testing Reports
  32. California Electronic Blood Lead Reporting Security and Data Transmission Upgrades
  33. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry Data Analysis

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