Welcome
Welcome to PSAC, also know as the Puget Sound Asthma Coalition. Thank you for visiting. Grab a cup of tea and enjoy. This website is a living site, a collaboration of many people coming together to connect, learn and together make a positive difference. You are always welcome here.
We, Puget Sound Asthma Coalition are a diverse collaboration of individuals, families, healthcare providers, business, school, Tribes, non-profits, and government organizations working to improve quality of life through education, outreach, innovation, and advocacy. General Membership meetings are held on the third Thursday and are open to all community members.
Ours is a community of many hands sharing, learning and helping each other. You are invited to join us.
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Asthma: We focus on asthma awareness, education, management and prevention.
Indoor Air Quality: Did you know we spend about 90% of our time indoors. The health of our homes, schools and indoor spaces matters!!
Climate Events and Environment: When our ambient air is clean we are all healthier and can breathe better. Unfortunately not everyone has clean air. Pollution , wildfire smoke, wood burning smoke & extreme weather all impact our air and your breath.
Disparities in Asthma Asthma isn't the same for everyone. Depending who you are, where you live, what industry you work in matters. We care and want to help make a difference
Asthma is a chronic (or lifelong) disease that can be serious—even life-threatening, but with proper management, you or your loved one with asthma can live a normal, healthy life.
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Breathing Space
Welcome to PSAC's Breathing Space. Our blog is more than a normal blog. It runs like a Facebook for our PSAC Community. You can join, find resources, post, learn, share and more. It's a goldmine of goodies. Sign in, post, learn, sign up for events and explore.
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PSAC Lunch & Learns
On the 3rd Thursday of every month. From noon to 1:00pm, we gather, learn and get to know each other. Please join us for our next meeting Dec 19th. Our topic: Healthy homes Pest Free with IPM (integrated pest management)
Here is the recap from our Nov 21st meeting Reducing Mold & Sharing our Gratitude
If you want to revisit any of our previous lunch and learns click here.
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Regular events.
We currently have 3 monthly events
The 2nd Wed at 11-noon PT is our Emergency and Climate Events Sharing Circle. Archives
The 3rd Thurs 12-1pm PT is our Monthly Puget Sound Asthma Coalition Lunch and Learn Archives
The 4th Wed 10-11am PT is our monthly Tacoma Cross-Collaboration Network meeting Archives (Our next meeting will be Jan 22nd. See you next year!)