Offerings for School-Based Health Professionals
- Asthma Flipchart – $100 (FREE to you!)
The Asthma Flipchart is a tool designed to deliver consistent and comprehensive asthma education in a variety of settings, ensuring flexibility to meet the needs of educators and participants. - Kickin’ Asthma (KA) Facilitator Training – $400 (FREE to you!)
This training prepares school personnel, health educators, student nurses and student respiratory therapists to deliver KA, which is an evidenced-based asthma education program for children ages 11 – 16 in school and community settings. - Open Airways for Schools (OAS) Facilitator Training – $400 (FREE to you!)
This training prepares school nurses, teachers, coaches, pharmacy students and university health education students to deliver OAS, which educates and empowers children with asthma, ages 8 – 11, to detect warming signs, triggers and make decisions about their health. - Asthma Educator Institute (AEI) – $300 (FREE to you!)
AEI is a preparatory course for those eligible to take the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC) certified asthma educator (AE-C) examination and for individuals who want to implement asthma guidelines-based care. - Free Stock Asthma Medication in Schools
- We are offering schools an opportunity to receive Emergency Stock Asthma Medication in Schools stipend. Stipends must be used for establishing stock asthma medication programs (e.g., purchasing an emergency stock of albuterol inhalers and disposable spacers).
- Stipend recipients will be required to complete the online course, Stock Asthma Medication: Implementation Guidance for Schools, download the Stock Asthma Medication in Schools Toolkit and provide feedback on the impact of the stipend.
- We are offering schools an opportunity to receive Emergency Stock Asthma Medication in Schools stipend. Stipends must be used for establishing stock asthma medication programs (e.g., purchasing an emergency stock of albuterol inhalers and disposable spacers).
- Not On Tobacco® and INDEPTH
If you have an interest in becoming a vaping and tobacco cessation facilitator for youth, we may have available opportunities for you! Email Eva.Book@Lung.org if you are a school-based health professional in Ohio to see if you’re eligible.
Get Involved
Are you a school-based health professional in Ohio working with school-aged youth with asthma? The Reid Wiley Charitable Foundation has provided the American Lung Association with funding to pilot a back-to-school backpack program to provide school supplies and education around asthma management and control.
What’s included?
- Ultralight packable backpack
- Carlitos Controls Asthma
- Asthma educational one pagers for students and parents
- Spiral notebook
- Pencils and highlighters
Email Eva.Book@Lung.org to see if you’re eligible to get backpacks for your students with asthma and get your name on our waitlist!
The Reid Wiley Charitable Foundation, a 501(c)(3) company, was created by Glenn, Mary and Erin Wiley to provide charitable funding to the American Lung Association for in-classroom educational and support programs on asthma for school age children in Ohio.
Page last updated: March 4, 2025
