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Healthy Homes Training

• Essentials for Healthy Homes Practitioners
• Healthy Homes Rating System Training

Essentials for Healthy Homes Practitioners

Provided by the City of San Diego, Environmental Services Department, May 1-2, 2013

Participants will gain insight from experts in the field on how housing and health are related and actions they can take to improve the health of their community. Course participants will have a better understanding how to collaborate to make healthy homes a reality in their community.

Everyone from a public health nurse visiting a client to an environmental health professional doing a rodent inspection will gain insight into how housing and health are related and actions they can take to improve the health of their clients. This two-day course brings together professionals with a variety of perspectives and experiences in a series of exercises - keeping the training lively and engaging.

Continental breakfast, lunch and refreshments provided each day.

Online registration forms and payment must be received by April 17, 2013.

For more information, or if you need lodging options, please email Robert Cox or call 858-492-5015. A list of CEU credits for this course is available by clicking here.

A nationally recognized healthy homes credential is available through the National Environmental Health Association. For additional information on the credentials, refer to www.neha.org/credential/HHS/. If you are interested in taking the national exam at end of second day, after registering, please contact Robert Cox by April 1, 2013.

The City of San Diego is a training partner in the National Healthy Housing Training Center and Network sponsored by the National Center for Healthy Housing, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Healthy Home Rating System Training (HHRS)

City of San Diego Environmental Services Department is providing this two-day training on May 15-16, 2013.

The new HUD Healthy Home Rating System (HHRS) follows the same qualitative approach to identifying health and safety hazards in the home as the UK's Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS). The inspection process is a risk-based assessment and considers the effect on occupant health and safety of any hazards in the property. Hazards are rated according to how serious they are and the effect they are having, or could have, on the occupants, that is, "the effect of the defect." The basic principle is that the property should be safe and healthy for the occupants.

Participants will learn to use this new cutting edge assessment system during this two-day course that brings together professionals with a variety of perspectives and experiences. It includes a series of exercises and a field trip to give you actual hands-on experience on how to use the system.

Continental breakfast, lunch and refreshments provided each day.

For more information, please email Robert Cox, or call 858-492-5015.

Online registration forms and payment must be received by April 30, 2013. You will receive confirmation upon receipt of registration and payment. Class will require a minimum number of students or will be cancelled.

The City of San Diego is a training partner in the National Healthy Housing Training Center and Network sponsored by the National Center for Healthy Housing, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Lead Safety and Healthy Homes Program has additional information about program services and lead poisoning symptoms and prevention.

The Lead Safety and Healthy Homes Program can provide individual training as needed. For information, or to schedule a lead-safety training, email Robert Cox or telephone 858-492-5015.

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