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The conferences bring together professionals from health, housing, community development, community groups, advocacy organizations, the lead industry, real estate firms, and residential and commercial facilities to explore ways to undertake programs and projects designed to prevent incidents of lead poisoning, eliminate indoor environmental hazards, and create healthy living and working environments. |
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Help You Meet the Challenges |
The Lead and Healthy Housing Conferences Help You Meet the Challenges
Environmental health practitioners, health educators, environmental hazard remediation professionals, and building operators face growing challenges. From tight budgets to issues of political and public support to determining appropriate work practices and to questions of environmental science, they all face mounting concerns of how to effectively operate and sustain programs, projects and businesses. The main purpose of the conferences is to help attendees explore solutions to the challenges that are encountered each day in efforts to implement success programs.
Plenty of Time to Network and Establish Professional and Business Relationships
The conferences provide a perfect setting for environmental health practitioners, local and state government officials and industry practitioners to meet, exchange ideas and establish working relationships with one another.
Learning from each other and renewing acquaintances are true benefits of participating in the Lead and Healthy Housing Conferences. |
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Ways You’ll Benefit by Attending |
Engage in interactive training programs that are excellent learning and technical assistance sessions
Explore new ideas and approaches to meeting program objectives
Network with those in the know and those who you want to know
Take home hundreds of new ideas
Participate in problem-solving, thought-provoking discussions
Examine products, technologies and educational materials
Explore successful techniques for increasing screening rates among at-risk populations; for undertaking housing-based primary prevention programs; for conducting public education and community outreach programs; for expanding from lead hazard control to Healthy Homes programs, for conducting integrated pest management and bed bug eradication programs; for conducing healthy housing inspections and remediation; for providing lead poisoning prevention and healthy housing information to refugee families; for creating an environmental health collaborative; and, for improving and streamlining grant management procedures. |
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The Conference Serves the Interests of All the Stakeholders |
- State and Local Government Officials: public health practitioners, city housing and community development administrators, code officials, neighborhood improvement and housing rehab officials, Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes grantees
- Health Advocates: community-based program administrators, health educators and neighborhood activists
- Lead Industry Practitioners: certified lead inspectors, risk assessors, lead hazard control and abatement contractors, project designers and laboratory managers
- Environmental Industry Professionals: environmental consultants, industrial hygienists, mold investigation and remediation companies
- Facility Managers, Maintenance Supervisors and Contractors: weatherization companies, remodelers, multi-family residential managers, school officials, building operators and physical plant administrators
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From Lead to Healthy Homes |
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What New Opportunities and Challenges Face Public Agencies, Community Organizations, Private Industry, Facility Managers and Owners, and Educational Institutions as HUD. EPA, CDC and USDA Pursue the "Framework for Healthy Housing"? In June 2011 in Denver, these federal agencies conducted an exciting and visionary conference on "Building A Framework For Healthy Housing". That conference focused attention on the need to provide safe, healthy and efficient homes for America’s families and reflected the federal commitment to lay the foundation to achieve their healthy homes agenda. The New Orleans conference will strive to advance the challenge of developing a national strategy for making our nation’s homes and buildings healthy places to live and work through innovative programs, public/private collaborations and local/state/federal partnerships. The New Orleans conference will provide an exciting educational and networking opportunity by bringing together a cross section of public officials, educators, facility operators, industry practitioners, and program advocates to engage in problem solving sessions designed to help attendees strengthen their abilities to participate in the movement towards healthy and safer living and working environments. The New Orleans conference will examine HUD’s draft "Healthy Homes Strategic Plan" so grantees and potential grantees can gain a better understanding of its relationship to local program operations, and engage in the strategic planning process by offering suggestions that can help shape the final plan. The conference will focus on healthy housing and healthy building issues, such as: - How to gain acceptance of healthy housing programs at the local level
- How to foster partnerships for implementing healthy housing agendas
- How to undertake healthy housing and healthy building inspections, risk assessments, hazard remediation and clearance
- How to transition from lead to healthy homes programs and incorporate healthy homes principles into ongoing practices and programs
- How to build sustainable local healthy housing and healthy building programs
- How to position your organization to acquire federal funds to undertake healthy homes programs
- How to undertake healthy housing outreach and public education programs that focus on the most at-risk populations
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