Asthma Mitigation Project
Stories from the Field:
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics

Pictured: A patient wearing a pink shirt is sitting on the left in a medical office. A community health worker stands on the right wearing blue scrubs. The community health worker is demonstrating how to use an asthma spacer. There is a whiteboard and two white posters in the background.

Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics

Santa Barbara County

“When I’m sick, I feel very bad. I feel like I can’t breathe and my chest hurts. Like something in your lungs fills with something and that’s not good.”

– Joselin

“Cuando estoy enferma, me siento muy mal. Siento que no puedo respirar y me duele el pecho. Como si los pulmones se me llenaran de algo malo.”

– Joselin

“I didn’t know what asthma was or what it was like. It made my girls say “Mommy, I can’t breathe air. I want to breathe air.” And I’d open the window and I didn’t know what to do.”

“No sabía qué era el asma ni cómo se sentía. Mis hijas decían: ‘Mamá, no puedo respirar. Quiero respirar’. Abría la ventana porque no sabía qué hacer”.

About Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics

Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics is a non-profit organization that has successfully improved asthma outcomes for low-income, uninsured, underinsured, Medi-Cal-insured, medically underserved, and undocumented children, adults, and families who are primarily Spanish-speaking with poorly controlled asthma.

Acerda de Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics

Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics es una organización sin fines de lucro que logró mejorar los resultados del asma en niños, adultos y familias hispanohablantes que reciben tratamiento deficiente para el asma y que están indocumentados, cuentan con bajos recursos, reciben atención médica insuficiente, carecen de seguro social, tienen seguro de Medi-Cal o cuya cobertura de seguro es insuficiente.