BREATHE LA Electronic Press Kit - All You Need to Know about BREATHE LA

BREATHE LA is dedicated to clean air and healthy lungs.

We serve Los Angeles with after school environmental education, asthma management, COPD research, and teen quit smoking programs.

Environmental Education 024U, serves thousands of inner city students in air pollution impacted schools.

Asthma management ASTHMA LUNG POWER serves middle school students and their families in five languages, English, Spanish, Armenian, Chinese, Korean.

Adults with COPD benefit from Pulmones Libres / Breathe Free COPD Awareness and education program and BREATHE LA Center for Healthy Lungs Research in University Settings and in the community.

BREATHE LA teen quit smoking project, 4-U-N-I ( text "For You and I" ) is a teen-to-teen peer mentoring program partnered with UCLA research.

BREATHE LA Trudeau Society provides professional development to lung health professionals through lecture series including Sam Sills Fellow, Grand Rounds and professional networking opportunities.

As a leader in the fight against Tuberculosis, BREATHE LA partners with the Los Angeles Tuberculosis Coalition.

BREATHE LA serves the community at large with public information and referrals services at community and corporate health fairs. If you would like BREATHE LA to visit your site or event, contact us.

BREATHE LA is an America's Charity workplace giving non-profit organization. For more information, on workplace or planned giving, contact us.

For clean air advoactes ready to take the leap for BREATHE LA, we invite you to take part in a breathtaking fundraising campaign to benefit the O24U environmental education program. 2008 Charity Skydive has raised nearly $10,000. Find out how you can help us reach our $100,000 goal. Click here to sign up for your BREATHE LA Charity Skydive.

BREATHE LA works to raise awareness about clean air issues and participates in statewide advocacy efforts to ensure legislation is in place to protect the environment.

Each year, over 6,000 people in Los Angeles die from illnesses related to air pollution. BREATHE LA invites Los Angeles to change that.

Pollution & Solutions Salon Series are engaging discussions of clean air and advocacy issues hosted by BREATHE LA. Free and Open to the public, join us to learn how you can be a part of the clean air future of Los Angeles.

MEDIA CONTACT: Julia Robinson Shimizu 323-935-8050 x233

MAY 9th is BREATHE LA DAY in Los Angeles

BREATHE California of Los Angeles County (BREATHE LA) is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the future of clean air and healthy lungs in Los Angeles County.

First established in 1903 to fight then-epidemic Tuberculosis, BREATHE LA has over a century of accomplishments and has long been a leader in efforts to improve air quality and lung health in Los Angeles.

Now part of BREATHE California, a statewide organization BREATHE LA is dedicated to developing and delivering innovative programs that serve the unique needs of our local communities.