The
Coalition has sponsored or played a major role in the following activities:
Supporting efforts within Boston’s public housing,
including assistance with a public health survey at the Franklin Hill Public
Housing Development which involved BUAC members, tenants and the Committee
for Boston Public Housing and co-sponsoring two asthma education videos: one
for teens and one in collaboration with the Franklin Hill Tenants; ·
Providing training for Massachusetts public housing administrators at the Massachusetts NAHRO (National Association of Housing and Rehabilitation Organizations) Conference and for the Citizens Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA) and developing statewide sessions with the Massachusetts Courts (Housing, Superior and District) on health and housing; ·
Assisting and co-applying with coalition members for grants to improve housing conditions and determine effectiveness of various interventions, specifically the EPA RARE grant targeting Franklin Hill Housing Development received by Tufts School of Medicine, CDC Healthy Homes grants received by the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC), and the HUD application of the BPHC that is pending; ·
Offering testimony on pending state legislation, specifically House Bill 1360 (now H. 4469) on studying areas with high asthma rates and House Bill 4286 on private investment in public housing, and City Council hearings on asthma in the inner-city and the proposal for an asthma hotline. Click here for "Children and the Law: Testimony" · Co-sponsoring conferences on asthma, including the Sea Change Conference on Asthma in the Inner City and the ZAP Asthma of Atlanta and presenting at the Maine Asthma Forum (June 2000) and the Massachusetts Healthy Schools: Designing, Building and Maintaining Healthy Schools (June 1999); ·
Participating in the Massachusetts Healthy Schools Network, to establish basic communications and health and safety procedures along with the "right to know" about hazards and other potential health effects from the activities relating to construction and renovation of the schools.
Boston Action Games were a success! We enrolled over 50 children and had 32 children attend on June 8, 2002. At the request of the parents, caretakers and children who attended, BUAC promised to make the games happen again next year!
Boston
Urban Asthma Coalition
622 Washington Street
Dorchester, MA 02124
(617) 423-4337
fax
(617) 282-3950
jzotter@tmfnet.org
