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CDC’s National Asthma Control Program started a new initiative focused on reducing the number of hospitalizations and emergency room visits among children with asthma called CCARE (Controlling Childhood Asthma Reducing Emergencies). Our goal is to reduce emergency department and hospitalization visits for children by half a million in five years. We plan to do this by promoting public health and health care collaboration and asthma self-management education (AS-ME), extinguishing second hand smoke, home visits with AS-ME, guidelines-based medical management and asthma-friendly policies. We plan to promote interventions across sectors, and linkages between programs and clinicians.