Participants
Fourteen Missouri programs comprised CALM, ranging from communities in rural Missouri to programs housed in urban St. Louis. Within the parameters set out by MFH, the grantees developed diverse interventions responding to the needs of their communities, including home visits, community and media
outreach, Physician Asthma Care Education (PACE) physician training, children’s asthma camps, and
many school-based interventions. The CALM schoolbased programs included education and training for
students, creation and sharing of asthma action plans, training for and provision of devices to school nurses, educational programs for other school staff, air quality improvement through filtration, and referrals to pharmacies, physicians, and other social service providers for families of children with asthma. In addition to the many interventions provided within their communities, CALM grantees worked over the years to create linkages and to enact policy and practice changes to support their work and improve coordination of care.