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    "ocrText": "FOIA Number:\n2006-1733-F\nFOIA\nMARKER\nThis is not a textual record. This is used as an\nadministrative marker by the William J. Clinton\nPresidential Library Staff.\nCollection/Record Group:\nClinton Presidential Records\nSubgroup/Office of Origin:\nFirst Lady's Office\nSeries/Staff Member:\nSpeechwriting\nSubseries:\nLaura Schiller: HRC Speeches 1/98 - 5/98\nOA/ID Number:\n24623\nFolderID:\nFolder Title:\nHRC Speeches 4/98 - 5/98: [5/21 Children's Hospital Asthma Event]\nStack:\nRow:\nSection:\nShelf:\nPosition:\nS\n61\n2\n2\n1\nChildren's Hospital Asthma Event\nPHOTOCOPY\nPRESERVATION\nFIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON\nTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL\nASTHMA EVENT\nMAY 21, 1998\nas prepared text\nWelcome and thank you, Dr. Ford, for that introduction -- and for being such a strong\nadvocate for children at the American Lung Association. I know that this issue has special\nmeaning for you. It's a pleasure to be back at Children's Hospital, and to join you, Secretary\nShalala, Administrator Browner and all the children here -- to talk about a very serious health\nproblem, and what we are doing together to safeguard and improve our children's health.\nWe've all heard this morning about how asthma is the most common medical threat to\nAmerica's children -- and that the problem is getting worse. And that while the rise in asthma\ncases and deaths cuts across all ages and groups -- there's been an alarming increase in asthma\nin children -- particularly under the age of five.\nThat's the bad news. The good news is that we're making significant headway in\nmeeting this chronic medical problem head on -- and that we're making that progress by working\ntogether -- as federal agencies, caregivers, health care providers, parents, and community leaders.\nWe've heard from Secretary Shalala and Administrator Browner about what the federal\ngovernment is doing to increase research and expand health programs to combat and prevent\nasthma. This morning, I'm pleased to announce three new initiatives -- from both the private\nand public sector -- that will build on these successful efforts already underway.\nThe first initiative I want to talk about today is a pilot program to empower local citizens\nand communities to take voluntary steps to protect children from environmental health threats\nsuch as lead, second hand smoke, and other pollutants. The Child Health Champion campaign is\nbeing initiated by EPA, as part of that agency's overall effort to help identify, prevent, and\nreduce environmental health risks to children. And it will go a long way to address the\nunderlying causes of asthma.\nThese pilot programs will take place in eleven selected communities around the country -\n- including here -- in Anacostia -- and will be supported with EPA seed money. Local\ncommunities will come together health care workers, teachers, citizen groups, business leaders,\nmaintenance workers, and the government -- to help identify health problems, set goals, and\ndevelop action plans.\nInformation is another effective empowerment tool we have to help control and prevent\nasthma. With asthma affecting one in every 14 children, everyone -- children, parents,\ncaregivers, teachers and the entire community -- needs to be informed about what can trigger it,\nits symptoms, and what to do about it. Getting this critical information out to the widest\npossible audience is the key to saving lives -- and improving the health of our children. And\nthat's what the following two initiatives seek to accomplish.\nFirst, the American Lung Association and the National Association of Child Care\nResource and Referral Agencies are joining forces to educate and train both parents and child\ncare providers in how to cope with childhood asthma and other lung diseases. Among other\nactivities, they will distribute to NACCRA's network of over 350,000 child care providers\nSesame Street's -- \"A is for Asthma\" -- educational kit. This bilingual kit includes a\ncaregivers guide, a video, and a poster that will help educate the entire community about asthma\nand how to improve our children's health.\nThe program has enlisted the help of some very important people: Sesame Street\ncharacters Elmo, Rosita and Luis. It also introduces a new Muppet friend -- Dani -- who has\nasthma. So I know the children here at the Hospital and across the country will enjoy this\nprogram -- and learn some important lessons from it as well.\nThe other initiative I want to mention arms parents and others with another kind of\ninformation they need to help protect children with asthma -- information about the quality of\nthe air we breathe. As Administrator Browner has already pointed out, smog and pollution --\nparticularly in our cities can cause all kinds of health problems, and children, particularly\nasthmatics, are at high risk for adverse health effects from ozone pollution.\nA new program-- called the Ozone Mapping Project -- for the first time makes\ninformation about ozone concentrations available daily to the public -- through the media, but\nperhaps more importantly -- on the Internet. This project -- initiated by the Environmental\nProtection Agency provides parents and communities with an important new \"right to know\"\ntool to help anticipate increased risks for asthma attacks and other health-related problems. It's\nparticularly appropriate that this project is being launched today -- on the nation's first Ozone\nAwareness Day which is being organized by the states to raise public understanding about\nozone and how it affects our health.\nTaken together, these three initiatives signify an important step forward in our nation's\nbattle to combat the problems of asthma that can so cripple a child's life -- and to ensure a\ncleaner, healthier environment for all of our children. We do not know exactly what causes\nasthma -- but we do know how to help prevent it and manage it. And if any illness illustrates\nthan an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of intensive care, asthma is it. By keeping parents\nand caretakers informed about asthma and what to do about it, and by empowering communities\nto improve the environment around them, we will continue to make progress -- and save lives --\nin this critical area of children's health. I want to thank everyone here today for helping to\nimprove the quality of life for so many of our youngest citizens.\nAnd now, the fun really begins. Elmo and Luis are going to do a song and dance about\nasthma for us. Let's all give them a very warm welcome."
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