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Helping community members manage asthma can be as easy as sharing a few key pieces of knowledge—even if you don’t have a dedicated asthma care team.

According to the American Lung Association, asthma is one of the main reasons that students miss school due to illness. Making a few changes can significantly change those statistics.

Changes that work for people with asthma or their caregivers don’t have to be about major lifestyle overhauls. They can be as simple as:

• Remove your shoes at the door
• Ventilate your home
• Clean green

These are three tips from CHWTraining’s Improving Asthma Outcomes program, which aims to instruct peer educators on guiding patients and clients to making easy changes that improve the quality of their life.

As health-based organization, you already know that motivating community members to change is tough. Make sure your CHWs, patient navigators, promontoras and other health workers are doing all they can to empowered clients and patients to live a healthier life.

The course Health Coaching and Motivational Interviewing helps you see greater results from client interactions.

This on-target course covers the essentials your staff needs to know for coaching and MI. This course defines health coaching activities, why and how it is done and how patients or clients might view self-care. It also covers stages of change, and techniques for motivational interviewing and goal-setting.

Best of all, you can enroll up to 20 people for the same low price.

Read about Health Coaching and Motivational Interviewing.