The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) has approved the conference for 17 hours of continuing education credit with NEHA

The joint conference includes program tracks and technical assistance workshops dealing with lead hazard control, lead poisoning prevention and healthy housing program issues. The program tracks run Tuesday afternoon and the technical assistance workshops run Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.

National Conference of Lead and Healthy Homes Grantee

The National Association of Lead and Healthy Homes Grantees is presenting sessions that focus on grant submission and management issues, operational issues and technical assistance topics. These sessions allow grantees, sub-grantees and potential grantees to examine ways to respond to grant opportunities, properly manage grant programs examine key issues that will help their agencies and communities improve the effectiveness and delivery of their grant programs, and examine changing federal strategies.

The Sessions on Lead and Healthy Homes Grant Management, Successful Program Implementation and Program Sustainability Cover the Following Issues

• Streamlining grant program administration
• Staying on target with your grant’s benchmarks and deliverables
• Transitioning from a lead to a healthy homes program
• Monitoring and documenting that contractors are using lead-safe work practices
• Developing proper documentation on household income including third party verification
• Recruiting strategies for contractors and landlords
• Sustaining a program after the grant period
• Gaining acceptance of healthy homes programs at the local level
• Fostering partnerships for implementing a healthy housing agenda
• Preparing for new opportunities offered through HUD’s Healthy Homes Strategic Plan

Sessions to Help Grant Managers and Staff

As a grant program manager – new or old – you are not alone. The trials and tribulations that you face have been dealt with by others. The conference provides you with answers and insights based on the successful experiences of other grant managers. These conference sessions include a pre-conference workshop for grant managers; an educational program track on grant application, implementation and sustainability issues; technical assistance workshops on program issues; a special “open forum” with key personnel from the HUD Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control.

Also of great value is the opportunity you’ll have to network with fellow grant managers and program staff from throughout the country.

The Indoor Environmental Health & Technologies Conference

In its tenth year, the Indoor Environmental Health & Technologies Conference – considered the nation’s premier multi-discipline environmental event brings together a cross-section of public officials, facility managers and operators, community advocates, contractors and consultants.

The Sessions on Eliminating Childhood Lead Poisoning and Conducting Healthy Housing Programs Cover the Following Issue

• Undertaking housing-based, primary prevention programs
• Incorporating Healthy Homes programs with weatherization programs and green housing rehab programs
• Expanding from lead poisoning prevention to Healthy Homes at the local and state levels
• Making the EPA Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule work at the local level through awareness, education and enforcement strategies
• Examining the barriers to eliminating childhood lead poisoning
• Integrating healthy housing strategies within city and state government agencies and non-governmental organizations, including affordable housing, community development and code enforcement
• Evaluating new federal policy opportunities for advancing lead hazard control and healthy homes programs
• Increasing the effectiveness of education and outreach programs aimed at hard-to-reach, at-risk populations
• Involving parents in policy development and program advocacy
• Comparing greening principles vs. healthy housing practices: compatible or conflicting
• Sustaining programs through collaboration and non-government funding sources
• How to enact and enforce housing-focused codes to support Healthy Homes objectives
• New products entering the healthy housing/healthy buildings market-place
• How to conduct a healthy homes assessment and implement remediation protocols, including integrated pest management, bed bug eradication, moisture elimination

Other Conference Features

Sessions to help grantees administer grant programs, and overcome "red" and "yellow" grant status. Opportunities to experience how New Orleans has been recovering from Katrina by touring Katrina-ravaged areas, and by attending presentations by organizations involved in the recovery, and volunteering to work with these organizations. City Showcases, Consultation Roundtables and Poster Presentations designed to provide attendees with the opportunity to engage in interactive, small group discussions on issues faced by public agencies, community groups, consultants and contractors, and facility operators when undertaking health programs, lead hazard control and health housing programs, and environmental hazard inspection and remediation projects.

Plenary Sessions that provide the opportunity to learn about new policy, program and legislative initiatives designed to advance lead poison prevention and healthy housing objectives – and to have fun at the same time. "Don’t Reinvent the Wheel" Educational Displays to see what’s been done by others to carry out public education and community outreach programs. If your organization would like to contribute to the "Don’t Reinvent the Wheel" displays, call 800.590.6522. Networking Opportunities to meet with colleagues from throughout the country to exchange ideas and establish working relationships.