In a place where asthma has long posed serious health challenges for children, a powerful new partnership is helping kids breathe a little easier. In 2025, Nemours Children’s Health and Lakeland Regional Health (LRH) launched the Children’s Asthma Education and Prevention Program (CAEPP) — a collaborative initiative to improve asthma education and outcomes for school-aged children in Lakeland. The program kicked off at Lincoln Elementary using the American Lung Association’s Open Airways for Schools curriculum…
Why it matters
- Lakeland ranks among the top 10 most challenging places to live with asthma, climbing as high as number two in 2023.
- Local hospitals are seeing a high percentage of children with severe asthma, particularly in the LRH Emergency Department and Nemours Pulmonary Clinic.
- Asthma-related school absences and emergency visits are all too common — but this program aims to change that.