{"id":2179,"date":"2018-11-20T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2025-02-06T17:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T22:02:09","slug":"co-op-program-targets-children-with-asthma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/20\/co-op-program-targets-children-with-asthma\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-Op Program Targets Children with Asthma"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column2179_0c2be9-de > .kt-inside-inner-col{padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);}.kadence-column2179_0c2be9-de > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column2179_0c2be9-de > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column2179_0c2be9-de > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column2179_0c2be9-de > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column2179_0c2be9-de > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column2179_0c2be9-de > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column2179_0c2be9-de{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column2179_0c2be9-de > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 991px){.kadence-column2179_0c2be9-de > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column2179_0c2be9-de dynamic-main-col\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2179_5aaf7a-e4, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2179_5aaf7a-e4[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading2179_5aaf7a-e4\"]{font-size:1.5rem;line-height:30px;font-weight:500;font-style:italic;font-family:proxima-nova;color:#808080;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2179_5aaf7a-e4 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2179_5aaf7a-e4[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading2179_5aaf7a-e4\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2179_5aaf7a-e4 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2179_5aaf7a-e4[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading2179_5aaf7a-e4\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading2179_5aaf7a-e4 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading2179_5aaf7a-e4\">The two Wilmington University Allied Health graduates are talking about their experience in a cooperative education program with the American Lung Association, arranged through the University\u2019s College of Health Professions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.test.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/co-op-copy-scaled-1-750x422.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2088\" style=\"width:350px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/co-op-copy-scaled-1-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/co-op-copy-scaled-1-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/co-op-copy-scaled-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/co-op-copy-scaled-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/co-op-copy-scaled-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Amy Lovenguth calls it \u201cthe best decision I made to help further my education.\u201d Valeri Holbert says, \u201cIt really helped me work on my communications skills and refine how I talk with individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two Wilmington University Allied Health graduates are talking about their experience in a cooperative education program with the American Lung Association, arranged through the University\u2019s College of Health Professions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For both the working mothers, their co-op work focused on asthma. The most common chronic condition among children under the age of 18, asthma affects 6.3 million and is the leading cause of missed school days among students ages 5 to 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lovenguth, who lives in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, graduated summa cum laude in May and was the recipient of the Trustees\u2019 Award for Scholarship in Health Professions.&nbsp;Her co-op lasted 14 weeks, during which she put in 14\u201321 hours a week in what she calls \u201ca very flexible schedule\u201d that accommodated her job as a respiratory therapist at Symbria Rehab and COPD Educator&nbsp;at the United Methodist Communities in Collingswood, New Jersey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trained as an educator for the Open Airways program, Lovenguth had a variety of duties during the co-op. She taught asthma education to children with asthma at Warner Elementary School in Wilmington, created an Asthma Education program for school nurses in Delaware, and spoke to a Wilmington HIV support group about asthma and smoking. \u201cAlso,\u201d she says, \u201cI&nbsp;made&nbsp;fact-sheets on allergic asthma and E-cigarettes for parents that would be handed out at summer asthma camp.\u201d Lovenguth worked with school nurse and Site Supervisor Fran Russo-Avena, who is a graduate of WilmU\u2019s nursing program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holbert, who lives in Newark, Delaware, is currently a Work Study intern with the Transitional Assistance Team helping coordinate spinal cord injury veterans at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Wilmington. She had duties similar to Lovenguth\u2019s during two 15-week co-ops. Besides serving as an asthma education facilitator at Warner, she represented the ALA at&nbsp;several asthma and lung-fassociated outreach events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI loved going to the outreach events,\u201d says Holbert. \u201cIt really helped me work on my communications skills and refine how I talk with individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She completed her undergraduate work in the fall of 2017, then continued in the master\u2019s program. She expects to complete her MSM in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like Lovenguth, she found her classroom work especially meaningful. \u201cAs the Asthma Education facilitator, I recognized that the students understood the information we talked about and started to utilize the knowledge to better control their asthma,\u201d says Holbert. \u201cIt is amazing when you truly grab someone\u2019s interest and help them see how small changes to their lifestyle could dramatically improve their overall health.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both WilmU alums worked through Nicole Goldsboro, national manager, Lung Health Education. \u201cI was program specialist when I worked with Valeri and Amy, and it was a great pleasure,\u201d says Goldsborough. \u201cBoth of them went above and beyond to deliver the ALA\u2019s Open Airways for Schools Program, and the students had a great time participating.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two Wilmington University Allied Health graduates are talking about their experience in a cooperative education program with the American Lung Association, arranged through the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[163,135],"tags":[652],"class_list":["post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifewilmu","category-magazine","tag-magazine-fall-2018"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":163,"label":"LIFE@WILMU"},{"value":135,"label":"MAGAZINE"}],"post_tag":[{"value":652,"label":"Magazine Fall 2018"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Eric Mumford","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/author\/eric\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":163,"name":"LIFE@WILMU","slug":"lifewilmu","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":720,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":92,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":163,"category_count":92,"category_description":"","cat_name":"LIFE@WILMU","category_nicename":"lifewilmu","category_parent":0},{"term_id":135,"name":"MAGAZINE","slug":"magazine","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":692,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":431,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":135,"category_count":431,"category_description":"","cat_name":"MAGAZINE","category_nicename":"magazine","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":652,"name":"Magazine Fall 2018","slug":"magazine-fall-2018","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1209,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":20,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14775,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/14775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}