The project aims to build awareness and capacity for school/ early childhood learning locations to establish lung-friendly schools (LFS) policies and practices, thereby reducing children's exposure to…

The project aims to build awareness and capacity for school/ early childhood learning locations to establish lung-friendly schools (LFS) policies and practices, thereby reducing children's exposure to environmental health (EH) contaminants and improve health related outcomes including asthma. The project will focus on school sites within three montana based tribal communities with 13 school locations totaling 5,950 students. Activities: project activities include: engaging strategic stakeholders and partners to develop tools and activate schools in creating safe and healthy learning environments; conduct lung friendly schools assessments, training, technical assistance support and disseminate outreach and education materials for schools; increase awareness about lung friendly schools; increase adoption of lung friendly school policies and practices to create safe and healthy learning environments in communities with low-income, tribal environmental health risk and high burden of asthma. Outcomes: anticipated deliverables include: multi-stakeholder partnerships/collaborations established, educational training or outreach materials developed and distributed, lung-friendly schools trainings implemented, goals and action plans established. Expected outcomes include: increase in number of schools engaged in improving lung friendly policies and practices, partnerships formed to collaborate on creating healthy learning environments, increase in the number of resources available to schools to create lung-friendly schools, increased awareness about the lung-friendly schools initiative, increased knowledge in schools about lung-friendly policies and practices to create safe and healthy learning environments, increase in number of schools that complete schools assessment, increase in number of schools that implement goals established to create lung-friendly schools. Subrecipient: no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.