Program List

Asthma

• A is for Asthma

  A bilingual, educational video kit, featuring Sesame Street® characters to teach parents and health and child care providers about asthma in the preschool child.
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• Exercise and Asthma

  Information designed to educate people with asthma, and those people who work with them, on proper asthma management and the importance of continued physical activity.
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• Indoor Air Quality - Tools for Schools

  Tools for Schools is an easy to use kit that explains how to carry out a proactive indoor air quality program for schools using common sense and available resources – with a focus on free and low cost solutions.
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• Open Airways for Schools

  This nationally recognized program teaches asthmatic children in 3-5th grade how to better manage their disease. It is a volunteer led program conducted within the school setting.
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Clean Air

• Indoor Air Quality - Tools for Schools

  Tools for Schools is an easy to use kit that explains how to carry out a proactive indoor air quality program for schools using common sense and available resources – with a focus on free and low cost solutions.
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Lung Disease

• Chest Disease Conference

  Pulmonary physicians and other respiratory care specialists gather annually for ongoing education and exploration of lung health diagnosis, treatment, and research. Attendees may acquire continuing education credits for their participation.
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• Educational Materials and Resource Center

  We offer a wide variety of brochures and videos on preventing and managing lung diseases.
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• Better Breather Clubs

  Meetings throughout Oregon, combining educational programs with social opportunities, offering members a better understanding of chronic respiratory disease and how to live with it.
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Tobacco

• Smokefree Housing Project

  Educating landlords and tenants to create more smokefree units throughout the Portland Metro area. View results of survey studying smoking rules and practices among tenants in the Portland Metro Area.
  >> View survey results.

• School Tobacco Policy Project

  Working with K-12 school district throughout the state as they upgrade their tobacco policies to comply and with and exceed the new state law.
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• Oregon Tobacco-Free College Initiative

  Working with colleges to adopt comprehensive tobacco-free policies for their campuses.
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• Head Start Tobacco-Free Policy Project

  Working with Head Start programs throughout the state to upgrade their tobacco-free policies.
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• Smokefree Bar Registry

  Looking for a healthy smokefree place in Oregon to spend the evening?
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• Get Tobacco out of Kid-rated Films

  Let's get tobacco out of kid-rated films.
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• Freedom From Smoking

  Learn to be a facilitator in this effective adult tobacco cessation program. Call 503-718-6143 or email healthinfo@lungoregon.org to add your name to the list to participate in the next facilitator training (date to be determined).
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Smoking Cessation

• Freedom from Smoking®

  Individual kits and clinics, available in print and online, to help Oregonians struggling to escape tobacco addiction.
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Public Policy

• Take Action Network

  Join ALAO in advocating for local and statewide laws that protect Oregonians from the health and safety hazards of tobacco and other air pollution, and promote asthma friendly environments where we live, work and play.
  >> Learn more.

Research Funding

Locally, we have funded talented doctors through our Young Investigators Research program. From our inception, nearly a million dollars has been provided for both local and national lung research.
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