Our mission:

To reduce the impact of asthma across New England, through collaborations of health, housing, education, and environmental organizations with particular focus on the contribution of schools, homes, and communities to the disease and with attention to its disproportionate impact on populations at greatest risk.


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ARC and HRiA awarded Kresge Foundation grant

Sep 30, 2009

The Kresge Foundation has awarded HRiA a two year grant to support the Asthma Regional Council's Healthy Homes Promotion Project (H2P2). This funding will support three important components of this project across New England: 1) encouraging health insurance providers to finance home-based environmental interventions and asthma education, 2)encouraging governmental programs to adopt holistic and integrated healthy homes models via strategic planning and training; and 3) promoting national dissemination of our cutting-edge approaches and successes. We anticipate that this will improve asthma outcomes across New England. The grant period is Jan. 1, 2010 - Dec. 31, 2011.


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Oct 26, 2011

On October 12, 2011 ARC and close to 50 co-signers submitted testimony requesting that the Institute of Medicine examine and address the non-clinical best practice components of comprehensive asthma management as part of Community Based

Non-Clinical Prevention Policies and Wellness Strategies.

Oct 26, 2011

Over 50 organizations and individuals joined ARC and Health Resources in Action in expressing to New England U.S. Senator4s our extreme concern about the proposed complete elimination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Program by the Senate Appropriations Committee in the proposed FY12 spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services and Education.

Apr 11, 2011
More than 400 organizations and advocates joined ARC and its partners in sending a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, expressing deep concerns over budget cuts to environmental health programs.