- 2.1: Organizational Structure
- 2.2: Meetings and Symposia Proceedings
- 2.3: Publications
- 2.4: Newsletters
- 2.5: Contact ARC
- 2.6: News
Our mission:
To reduce the impact of asthma across New England, through collaborations of health, housing, education, and environmental organizations with particular focus on the contribution of schools, homes, and communities to the disease and with attention to its disproportionate impact on populations at greatest risk.
News
HUD Issues Non-Smoking Policies for Public Housing
HUD's Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control and its Office of Public and Indian Housing jointly issued Notice PIH 2009-21 (HA), Non-Smoking Policies in Public Housing, on July 17, 2009. This notice strongly encourages Public Housing Authorities to implement non-smoking policies in some or all of their public housing units. By reducing the public health risks associated with tobacco use, this notice will enhance the effectiveness of the Department's efforts to provide increased public health protection for residents of public housing.
Smoking is also an important source of fires and fire-related deaths and injuries, which this notice will help make less frequent.
The notice is posted at: www.hud.gov/offices/pih/publications/notices/09/pih2009-21.pdf
On October 12, 2011 ARC and close to 50 co-signers submitted testimony requesting that the Institute of Medicine examine and address the non-clinical best practice components of comprehensive asthma management as part of Community Based
Non-Clinical Prevention Policies and Wellness Strategies.
Over 50 organizations and individuals joined ARC and Health Resources in Action in expressing to New England U.S. Senator4s our extreme concern about the proposed complete elimination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Program by the Senate Appropriations Committee in the proposed FY12 spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services and Education.