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Essentials for Healthy Homes Practitioners Course

Why Housing Code Inspectors Should Attend

Continuing Education Credit Hours

Many housing code inspectors are registered Registered Environmental Health Specialists or Registered Sanitarians credentialed through the National Environmental Health Association.  NEHA has pre-approved continuing education credit for the course.  Participants will receive 15 contact hours.  For more information.  

If there are other organizations that license or accredit housing code inspectors, NCHH will seek approval from them to help students get the most from the training.  Contact Susan Aceti.

The Essentials for Healthy Homes Practitioners course brings together a diverse mix of housing and health professionals to promote practical and cost-effective methods for making homes healthier.  A major strength of the course is the peer-to-peer learning that occurs between students.  Through exercises, demonstrations and discussions, students better understand the roles, perceptions and challenges that their counterparts face.  And they identify ways to coordinate their work to better protect residents from environmental and safety hazards in the home. 

 

The housing code is a core element of any effort to protect public health.  It sets the minimum standards needed to protect residents from environmental health and safety threats. 

 

Housing code inspectors will benefit from the course because it will help them:

  • Better understand the connections between the housing code requirements and potential health impacts;

  • Set priorities that maximize the health benefits to residents;

  • More effectively convince property owners to resolve problems;

  • Develop networks with other health and housing professionals who can help identify resources and potential solutions; and 

  • Gain insight into the perspectives of nurses, pest management professionals, environmental health specialists, and community-based organizations to help all be more effective.

Please join us!

 

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