Community Asthma Prevention Program (CAPP)
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One in four children in West Philadelphia live with asthma. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s (CHOP) Community Asthma Prevention Program (CAPP) works to improve asthma-related outcomes in these children.
In Philadelphia and parts of Delaware and Montgomery counties, we offer a Home Visitor Program. We partner with community health workers to provide in-home education and supplies to help reduce asthma triggers in the home. Throughout Philadelphia, we also offer free asthma education classes at community sites.
Learn more about our community programming.
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Our team
Our experts are committed to the health and well-being of children with asthma. We also train parent educators to provide group asthma education classes for caregivers and their children.
Resources
Community resources
Resources for professionals
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Fighting Asthma Disparities Summit
The annual Fighting Asthma Disparities Summit brings together leaders and community members to increase awareness of and advocacy related to pediatric asthma treatment.
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CHOP and Penn Medicine to Lead Regional Center for Children's Environmental Health
The new center, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, aims to identify and protect children in vulnerable communities from environmental exposures.
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Disparities in Asthma Outcomes: Personal Touch Can Make a Difference
A few years before CHOP launched the Community Asthma Prevention Program (CAPP) in 1997, our Emergency Department sent weekly tallies of how many primary care patients came to the ED for asthma-related problems.