Strive for Five : Donate and Win, Bring Carlos Boozer to your school

The first 15,000 children to participate will receive a coupon for a free game of laser tag at Boondocks Fun Center.

Your school can help raise funds to support children with asthma!

If your school wins, Carlos Boozer of the Utah Jazz will come to your School!

Strive for 5 is a program to raise money in support of “Open Airways for Schools” an asthma program of the American Lung Association of Utah (ALAU). There are over 64,000 children in Utah under 18 who have been diagnosed with asthma. The Open Airways program helps elementary age children learn how to better manage their asthma.

Raise money for the Open Airways for Schools program
Increase awareness of Asthma, its causes, symptoms and treatments

Children with asthma who do not know how to take care of it are at serious risk. That’s why the Open Airways for Schools program was developed. It was tested in elementary schools nationwide and provided effective in reducing the number and duration of asthma episodes.

The program teaches children with asthma, ages 8-11, to better manage their disease through six 40-minute interactive lessons. Children with asthma are brought together during or after school to learn these skills.

The Open Airways program was pilot tested and evaluated in 1987. The study revealed that children who participate in the program:

Have fewer and less severe asthma attacks
Improve their academic performance
Have more confidence in their ability to take steps to manage their asthma
Exert greater influence on their parents’ asthma management decisions