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The California Healthy Housing Coalitions strongly encourages the use of IPM as a safer and more effective approach to pest management, particularly in multifamily housing. IPM has proven to be an effective, long-term solution to pest problems while reducing exposure to pesticides. The three videos below make the case for landlords and property managers to adopt an IPM approach at their properties by describing what IPM is, what its benefits are, and how to transition a property to IPM. Additional resources are available below.
Home/Housing, Website
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COVID-19, Asthma and Equity: What We’re Learning and Doing
Education/Outreach Materials, Website
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Wide variety of healthy homes resources maintained by Kevin Kennedy at Children's Mercy Kansas City
Home/Housing, Website
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In light of the many changes that the coronavirus pandemic is creating, on April 3, 2020, RAMP hosted a webinar, Virtual Asthma Home Visits to learn more about virtual asthma home visits, share resources, and try to solve challenges related to implementation.
Community Health/Outreach Worker Tool, English, Training/Educational Kit
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Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are emitted as gases from certain solids or liquids. VOCs include a variety of chemicals, some of which may have short- and long-term adverse health effects. Concentrations of many VOCs are consistently higher indoors (up to ten times higher) than outdoors. VOCs are emitted by a wide array of products numbering in the thousands.
Home/Housing, Website
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The short consumer guide covers portable air cleaners and furnace or HVAC filters used in a home. It includes tips for selecting a portable air cleaner, furnace filter, or HVAC filter.
Booklet, Home/Housing
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The Asthma Management Academy (AsMA) is a free training program for community health workers and educators using national asthma guidelines.
Community Health/Outreach Worker Tool, Training Materials
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Our pediatric experts can tell families a lot about their child's asthma diagnosis and the treatment to come. One thing they can't always tell them: how it will feel. That's why we connected a family just diagnosed with asthma with a family who's been there — to answer questions, to ease fears and to offer hope about everything from symptoms to medications to living with asthma.
Education/Outreach Materials, Website
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Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition that usually develops during childhood. It occurs when the airways in the lungs become inflamed (swollen) and constrict (become smaller), making breathing difficult.
Education/Outreach Materials, Website