Project Breathe Easy

An award-winning program that provides emotional and informational support to parents who have children with asthma.  The primary goal of Project Breathe Easy is to provide parent-to-parent support and to empower the parent to be the child's best advocate.  Community Parents are the Support Parents in this program and work in housing communities and low-income neighborhoods in Anderson, Charleston, Columbia, Florence, and Greenville.  Results in better healthcare, fewer and shorter hospitalizations or emergency room visits, fewer days of missed school for kids, and missed days of work for parents are outcomes of this program.  Connection for Prevention is offered in collaboration with the March of Dimes and targets preconception healthcare for teens and women and also emotional support and assurance to women pregnant to understand the signs of pre-term labor.