Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention National Training Center (HHLPPTC) Training Tracks

Program Management, Surveillance, and Strategic Planning Track

Especially suited to

Grants managers for the following: CDC healthy homes and childhood lead poisoning prevention (HH/CLPPP), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grants
Epidemiologists and others who coordinate data collection and evaluation
Senior managers of Health Resources and Services Administration and Maternal and Child Health home visiting programs
Staff responsible for planning or needs assessments

What you will get from this training track

Strategies for working with multiple sources of surveillance data on blood lead levels and other health outcomes
Opportunities to confer with technical representatives of the Healthy Housing and Lead Poisoning Surveillance System to adapt the system to your needs
Strategies for strategic planning and coalition-building
Evaluation measures that demonstrate program impact

Especially suited to

Staff with program development, communications campaigns, and grant development responsibilities
Housing professionals including home inspectors, sanitarians, code inspectors, and weatherization professionals
Home inspectors
Sanitarians
Code inspectors
Weatherization professionals
Community action agencies
Community development corporations
Community-based organizations
Tenant/resident councils
Public health students

What you will get from this training track

Data sources and strategies to improve screening of children and targeting of units
Techniques to build community awareness of healthy homes issues
Strategies to develop an effective value statement to build support for your program
Strategies to enhance program capacity to conduct primary prevention
Cost-effective, evidence-based home interventions to improve housing and health outcomes, including bed bug control, implementation of smoke-free multiunit housing, and other topics
Evaluation measures that demonstrate program impact

Especially suited to

Any outreach workers, community health workers, or case managers from CDC-funded HH/CLPPP grantees, or asthma, injury, or early childhood home visiting programs
Those with less than 2 years of experience
Managers of programs that coordinate with other home visiting programs
Public health students

What you will get from this training track

Strategies to improve recruitment and retention of clients for lead, asthma, and injury prevention programs
Model outreach materials
Strategies to enhance cultural sensitivity during home visits
Strategies to coordinate and track referrals across health, housing, developmental, and nutritional services
Key educational messages for families
Evaluation measures that demonstrate program impact