YES WE CAN Toolkit Overview

The YES WE CAN Toolkit, Managing Children's Asthma:
A Community-Focused, Team Approach, contains everything health
professionals need to set up a medical/social team program for
prevention-oriented children's asthma care. It is a step-by-step guide
for primary care clinics, public health departments and
Medicaid-managed care organizations.


The model's primary design feature is team care, provided by a clinician,
a nurse clinical care coordinator, and a community health worker.

The Toolkit:
• is clinic-based and community-focused
• marries medical and social aspects of care
• offers a practical approach to supporting patient/family
self-management of the disease over time
• promotes culturally and linguistically competent care,
via well-prepared community health workers
• contains detailed protocols, forms, and sample letters, available
in electronic form for you to customize for your own clinic or organization
• has been carefully tested, with excellent outcomes to date.

The materials in the Toolkit were developed, tested, and evaluated at
community clinics with outstanding asthma programs: the Pediatric Asthma
Clinic at SF General Hospital/UCSF; the Odessa Brown Children's Clinic (Seattle);
and Mission Neighborhood Health Center/Exclesior Clinic (San Francisco).
A host of other individuals and organizations provided technical review,
and are partnering to disseminate the Toolkit.

The Toolkit was produced by the YES WE CAN Urban Asthma Partnership
(see Credits page for list of partners), based at Community Health Works,
a partnership of San Francisco State University and City College of
San Francisco; by Kaiser Permanente Northern California; and by the
Child Health Institute at the University of Washington.


The YES WE CAN Toolkit Contents
Managing Children's Asthma: A Community-Focused, Team Approach

• Program Implementation Manual
(how to set up and administer a program at a site)
• Clinical Care Coordinator Manual
(training and resource manual for nurse care coordinators)
• Community Health Worker Manual
(training and resource manual for asthma community health workers,
available in English and Spanish)
• CD ROM containing data base to prompt and chart clinical encounters,
track care, and speed quality improvement efforts; and containing all
sample forms, letters and protocols for the program
• Supplementary resources (including some excellent already existing
materials, such as patient education videos, posters,
sample patient/family education materials).


June 2004. San Francisco, California