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Healthy Homes Specialist Credential by NEHA

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▪  Healthy Homes Video

▪  American Hsg Survey

▪  Housing Codes

▪  Integrated Pest Mgmt (IPM)

▪  Ped. Home Assess Tool

▪  Searchable Database

▪  Student Listserve

Specific Courses

▪  Essentials for Healthy Homes Practitioners

▪  Launching a Healthy Homes Initiative

▪  Nurse On-Line Training

▪  IPM in Multi-Family Housing

▪  Hogares Saludables para Promotores de la Vivienda y la Salud (Healthy Homes for Housing and Health Promoters)

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Launching a Healthy Homes Initiative Course

About the Course

Launching a Healthy Homes Initiative Course ________   Typical Agenda   Course Materials

The course brings together health and housing professionals from state and local agencies as well as other health and housing organizations.  The goal of the training is to identify policies and practices to establish robust programs to make homes healthier.  Participants will work with a case study developed for the training to analyze threats to resident health and identify opportunities to reduce those threats through improved and coordinated housing and health services. The course integrates engaging presentations with real world problem solving exercises to create an engaging and informative session.

Who Should Attend:

• Health department staff
• Housing agency personnel
• Policy makers
• Community-based organizations
• University staff

 

Course Materials:  

• Agenda

• Scenario

• Seven Principles - PDF (2.8 MB)

• Healthy Homes Tools - PDF (0.5 MB)

Exercises:  Materials for exercises:

• #1 Who Goes In?

• #2 Making the Connections

• #3 Identify the Problems

• #4 Setting Priorities

• #5 CEHRC Visual Survey

• #6 Action Plan

References - These references are from the Essentials for Healthy Homes Practitioners Course but are useful for this course as well.

• Reference Index

• IOM Asthma Dampness Mold

• Healthy Homes Reference Manual summary

• American Housing Survey - 2005 national data and description

• International Property Maintenance Code 2003 Healthy Homes Provisions

• HUD Housing Quality Standards

• Community Environmental Health Resource Center - Visual Survey Report

• Community Environmental Health Resource Center -  Visual Survey Instructions

• Pediatric Environmental Health Assessment Survey Form

• Pediatric Environmental Health Assessment Action Plan

• Pediatric Environmental Health Assessment Scenario

• Footnote References for Modules

• Smoke-Free Home Rules - State Progress 1992 to 2003

• CDC Healthy People 2010 Objectives Related to Healthy Homes

• HUD Guidance on Integrated Pest Management

• Healthy Homes Maintenance Checklist

• EPA National Radon Map

• CDC Asthma Prevalence Maps

To register, go to www.healthyhomestraining.org/upcoming.htm

 

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