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The Healthy Neighborhoods Program is a free in-home health and safety assessment and intervention program for residents of targeted areas of Niagara County, NY. Public Health Technicians come to the home and assist the resident in identifying health and safety hazards, asthma triggers, indoor pollutants and potential lead poisoning problem areas. Free smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, asthma relief products and cleaning products may all be available to the resident according to need. There is no paperwork to fill out, no ecoomic maximum or minumum requirements. For an apppointment, call (716) 439-7479. (716)278-8292, M-F, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm.

Healthy Sustainable Homes is a free, volunteer driven program which conducts in depth home health assessments with a focus on biological pollutants, chemical contaminants and safety hazards. Our marketing efforts are targeted to homes with asthmatic children and the elderly.

HCBT is a community asthma education program that takes place in under served communities in Chicago. Community Health Workers provide comprehensive in-home asthma education to children and their families over the course of a year.

Goal: Provide families, communities, and professionals with the knowledge and tools needed to protect children from lead poisoning. Coordinate lead source identification activities and target lead hazard remediation efforts to minimize childhood exposure to all lead hazards, with a focus on lead-based paint hazards. Primary Prevention Objective 1 (Healthy Homes): Collaborate with Healthy Start to Help 100 families take action to create a lead safe and healthy home by June 30, 2009. Activity 1. Develop a local Healthy Homes Protocol that includes a listing of local resources that perform lead hazard remediation and other healthy homes services for low income, high-risk families at a reduced or no-cost. 2. Train Healthy Start to integrate outreach, education, and visual lead risk assessment efforts into home visitation activities. 3. Provide a 1.5 hour family centered lead-safe work practices training at least once quarterly. 4. Provide health education to 80% of families referred to the CLPPP. (Education will include, Healthy Homes Booklet, consultation over the phone, and / or in-home education.) 5. Help families obtain needed services. Primary Prevention Objective 2 (Healthy Homes): Collaborate with the Child Care Center Program to Help # of childcare centers to take action to create a lead safe and healthy home by June 30, 2009. Activity 1. Train Child Care Center Staff to integrate outreach, education, and visual lead risk assessment efforts into childcare center visitation activities. 2. Provide a 1.5 hour lead-safe work practices training at least quarterly. 3. Provide health education to 80% of childcare centers referred to the CLPPP. 4. Connect childcare centers to healthy homes services. Outcomes: _Provided twenty-five community presentations which included children, parents and educators (250 people). -Provided 150 tool kits to community advisory groups to share with their organization. Tool kits included information about the importance of blood lead screening and lead poisoning prevention. _5 Lead safe work practices trainings were provided to community agencies serving the same clientele. Hillsborough County Extension Services, BOCC Head Start/Early Head Start Program, Hillsborough County Schools Head Start Program, Consumer Credit Counseling Services,Inc. 1st Time Homebuyers Program and Healthy Start Coalition OHC Environmental, CLPPP Coordinator and Tampa Housing Authority for landlords, property owner’s local government agencies and contractors for the months of February and March 2007.

Houston Independent School District's "Clearing the Air About Asthma in Schools" is a CDC-funded program that seeks to improve the quality of life for students with asthma through self management education and skill development.

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The Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control (OHHLHC) Healthy Homes program works to reduce environmental health and safety hazards in housing.

Through games, music and creative play, children learn how to take an active role in their care. The goal is to learn how to manage, prevent and control asthma symptoms. Offered to children ages 4-10 and their families for hands-on learning through a puppet show geared towards children. Classes (puppet shows) are held four Wednesdays per calendar year from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and include snacks. Please call Gina at (719) 595-7146 if you are interested in attending!