What they are saying?

I think the online training program . . . is OUTSTANDING! Not only did I complete it, but I used it with the 30 senior nursing students that I had in class last week when we discussed Vulnerable Populations: Families and Children. The online training was an EXCELLENT example of public health efforts with families and children.

Sharon Yearous, Iowa School Nurse Organization

So long as I have access to the resources discussed on the training material there is nothing you could do to improve this course. It was wonderful having the video and pictures. Obviously it is hard to assess like you would if you were there but this presentation came close.

Glory Gill, Hampton City School, Hampton, VA

No family should have to choose between affordable and healthy housing. "Healthy Homes" is a century-old concept that promotes safe, decent, and sanitary housing as a means for preventing disease and injury. Healthy housing is receiving considerable attention from public health professionals and policy makers as a result of emerging scientific evidence linking health outcomes such as asthma, lead poisoning, and unintentional injuries to substandard housing. There are more than 6 million substandard housing units nationwide. As a result, there is a growing need for preventing the public health problems that stem from these units. Even newer expensive homes may have hazards lurking within. Creating healthier housing promotes the healthy growth and development of children and has the potential to save billions in health care costs. See the video about Healthy Homes

The National Healthy Homes Training Center & Network is a partnership that brings together public health and housing practitioners to promote practical and cost-effective methods for making homes healthier. It also serves as a forum for exchanging information on new research and best practices.

The Training Center offers the following courses

Essentials for Healthy Homes Practitioners for healthy and housing professionals.
Building Healthy Homes for designers, architects and progressive contractors.
NEW! Pediatric Environmental Home Assessment (on-line training) for nurses and other practitioners who do home visits.

The Training Center also has several courses being piloted and several under consideration.

Healthy homes is a growing field. Therefore, the partners are developing and piloting variations of these courses for policymakers, housing experts, community-based organizations, health departments, pest management professionals and home inspectors. Please contact Tom Neltner at tneltner@nchh.org or 410.539.4160 for more information.

The partnership consists of:

Training Partners:

Nonprofit Partners:

Federal Partners:

Corporate Partners:

Follow-up on 2007 Annual Meeting

The Training Center is funded by a grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, with support from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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