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
Targeting, Partnerships, and Primary Prevention Track
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
Home Visiting, Care Coordination, and Referrals Track
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
- Page last reviewed: June 15, 2013
- Page last updated: January 30, 2015
- Content source:
National Center for Environmental Health, Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services