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

About the Course

The purpose of this course is to provide training in the assessment of housing related health hazards for housing, public health, education, advocacy, and outreach para-professionals. The training course will be offered in Spanish and will include a focus on practical and cost-effective methods that can be easily implemented. The Essentials for Healthy Homes Practitioner’s course has been translated and adapted so that the curriculum are applicable to community- based professionals.

Who Should Attend:

• housing managers of multi-family units (farmworker and elderly housing)

• existing health promoters who work in an agricultural community;

• educators of farmworkers (migrant, seasonal, and permanent);

• social advocacy and outreach workers; and

• farmworkers.

Course Materials:  This training consists of 10 modules:

Agenda

• CHAMACOS Overview

• Focus on Health Effects

• Start with People and House as System

• Keep It Dry

• Keep It Clean

• Keep It Pest-Free

• Keep It Ventilated

• Keep It Safe

• Keep It Contaminant-Free

• Keep It Maintained and Making It Work

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

10320 Little Patuxent Parkway, Suite 500 • Columbia, MD 21044
Phone: 410.992.0712 • Fax: 443.539.4150