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The Healthy Pest Free Housing Initiative (HPFHI) is an innovative community demonstration project designed to reduce environmental health risks and asthma among residents of Boston public housing, in homes and communities. Through education, outreach, and systems change, HPFHI is reducing pest infestation, while changing individual and community pest control practices.

Check out this toolkit compiling existing educational, "how-to" and resource brochures, pamphlets and other information designed to assist owners/management agents of public and assisted multi-family housing who want safer and healthier homes.

See toolkit link below.

Resources included in the kit:

• Reasons to explore smoke free housing
• Health effects of smoking
• A synopsis of the Surgeon General's 2006 report of the harmful effects associated with exposure to secondhand smoke
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Steps landlords can take toward going smoke free
• A guide to no-smoking policies
• A sample resident letter and second smoke survey
• HUD smoke-free housing Notices from the Offices of Public and Indian Housing and Multifamily Housing
• A list of some Public Housing Authorities that have smoke-free policies
• A list of resources for more information

Provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Lung Association, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Through a unique partnership between American Lung Association in Ohio and public television stations in Dayton and Cincinnati, we offer this CAARE for Care Providers project Web site dedicated to managing childhood asthma in day care settings and in homes.

The Community Asthma Awareness, Resources and Education for Family Care Providers Project (CAARE for Care Providers) delivers asthma education to an underserved population of adults caring for children with asthma in southwestern Ohio. Over 13 percent of Ohio's children will be diagnosed with asthma during their lifetimes.