Resources

BREATHE LA Pulmones Libres / Breathe Free reaches out to inner city Spanish Speaking Communities in Los Angeles to identify and serve uninsured adults with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). An awareness and education program of BREATHE LA, Pulmones Libres / Breathe Free goal is to serve medically indigent adults in the inner city and offer free workshops for community members and service providers.

BREATHE LA invites you to ensure Los Angeles County schoolchildren enjoy BREATHE LA O24U Environmental Education Program.

BREATHE LA O24U Program provides environmental education to children in after school programs throughout Los Angeles County. BREATHE LA O24U fall sessions will be offered in more than 5o after-school sites including Long Beach Boys and Girls Clubs, Beyond the Bell and LA's Best.

Looking to volunteer or intern in environmental health? BREATHE LA's O24U environmental education program needs your time and expertise.

BREATHE LA Pollution & Solutions Salon Series was held at the California Endowment on August 15, 2008 and featured a lively panel discussion on

"Zero Emissions and Carbon Footprints: A Green New World?"

Los Angeles City Councilmember Wendy Greuel provided Welcome Address
( introduced by BREATHE LA Board Member, Andrea Caster). Panel of Experts, S. David Freeman, Board of Harbor Commission President; Steve Glenn, CEO of LivingHomes and Romel Pascual Green LA, Office of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, with Moderator Claudia Peschiutta, KNX 1070 AM Reporter, enjoyed a lively and wide ranging discussion of the need to move forward quickly to make personal, legislative and policy changes to address looming climate change catastrophe. "We're in the fight for our lives," said S. David Freeman, "and we need to address this with a sense of urgency."

BREATHE LA 4-U-N-I Teen Quit Smoking Program is preparing for a
WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY (May 2009) Text-to-Quit event and needs help to :

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Asthma Lung Power is BREATHE LA Asthma Management Program provided to school children in day camp settings in Los Angeles County.
Materials are available in five languages:
English
Armenian
Chinese
Korean
Spanish
BREATHE LA Asthma Lung Power is designed to empower children and their families manage asthma effectively.

Support Lung Power with a donation to ensure these brochures are available to diverse communities in Los Angeles County.

BREATHE California of Los Angeles County (BREATHE LA) Pollution & Solutions Salon Series continued with an expert panel discussing California's Climate Change legislation (AB32) on July 17, 2008 at the Los Angeles Press Club.

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take
but by the moments that take our breath away."

BREATHE LA serves the unique needs of Los Angeles with a passionate dedication to clean air and lung health.

BREATHE LA serves one of the largest and most vibrant metropolitan areas in the world, Los Angeles County. We are proud of our commitment to provide meaningful programs and services as we fulfill our promise to protect the breath of life in Los Angeles.

BREATHE LA provides educational programs like O24U our environmental education program, to elementary school children.

BREATHE LA provides lung health awareness materials and provides lung health programs like Asthma Lung Power to middle school children.

This month's salon features spiritual leaders in an interfaith dailogue on the spiritual dimensions of environmentalism. This promises to be a discussion with depth and resonance and we invite you to join us!

BREATHE LA Center for Healthy Lungs funds research designed to identify interventions that improve quality of life for those suffering with lung disease. Funding is also targeted for research that promotes clean air and develops technology.