Training and Technical Assistance Projects
CDC National Healthy Homes Training Center
Technical Assistance and Strategic Planning
Leadsafehomes.info
CDC Case Management Project
NY Attorney General's Office
Lead-Safe Homes Website Project
CDC National Healthy Homes Training Center
As part of this $300,000 project NCHH will either lead or participate in a collaborative team that will launch a training center and network to deliver appropriate course material through formal programs, both at NCHH and other locations, based on state and local needs. NCHH will develop internet-based course materials. At least one on-site pilot training program will be conducted and evaluated within the first operational year. In subsequent years, depending on available funding, at least two training programs will be conducted on-site, and two training programs will be conducted off-site.
For more information, please contact Jack Anderson at
Technical Assistance and Strategic Planning Initiative
For years NCHH has been encouraged by its state and local partners to use its experience with the HUD lead hazard control grantees to offer a full spectrum of services to cities and states. As a result, NCHH announced its TASP initiative in Spring 2003. Under the initiative, NCHH's team of experts assist state and local governments in achieving the 2010 goal of eliminating lead poisoning. NCHH services include: Strategic planning, policy guidance and implementation; program planning and management; evaluation and quality assurance applications; and legislative and regulatory analysis. Current and past clients include: the State of Rhode Island, Rochester NY, and Detroit MI. More
For more information, please contact Jack Anderson at
As part of its efforts to eliminate childhood lead poisoning by 2010, NCHH is working with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to develop an interactive, web-based database called "Lead-Safe Homes.info." Lead-Safe Homes.info provides easy access to address-specific information about lead hazards in housing, and to information about the prevalence of childhood lead poisoning at the community level. The system is currently being piloted in the cities of Boston, Baltimore, and Chicago and is intended to serve as a national model for other cities and states interested in using their local data to facilitate lead hazard control, outreach, and enforcement efforts. Beta testing will occur this fall and launch events are being scheduled in each of the three pilot cities.
For more information, please contact Pat McLaine at
This CDC-funded national training project will focus on the key messages of the 2002 Recommendations for Managing Elevated Blood Lead Levels Among Children and help case managers and programs identify strengths, weaknesses and gaps in current implementation in order to motivate change. A total of 380 individuals have been trained to date. Program staff have developed the pilot training and delivered the training 6 times to 350 plus students. Evaluations have been very positive and CDC has agreed to change the basic training format from one very long day to two-shorter days as a result of program input. The project is funded through Battelle; an additional $60,000 has been recently allocated to conduct an evaluation of the training. More
For more information, please contact Pat McLaine at
This project, funded by through a grant from the state Attorney General's Office, will focus on providing technical assistance to the Cities of Rochester and Syracuse. We anticipate serving as a technical consultant to the Rochester Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning and assisting the Rochester Coalition in organizing a facilitated workshop of key area stakeholder representatives. We are designing a voluntary lead compliance handbook for property owners and policy makers to summarize a variety of lead hazard control strategies. The handbook will indicate the cost of the strategies and the longevity of the treatments so that property owners can select the treatments that best suit their needs. We will also reach out to other cities in the state to provide technical assistance on organizing a strategic planning process, and select two with which we will work by interviewing 5-10 key stakeholder representatives in each city to identify critical problems, barriers and potential solutions, and creating summary documents for each city with the results of our research and interviewing activities, and a set of recommendations for structuring a formal strategic planning process in the future. Finally, we will deliver up to two presentations of the renovation, remodeling and rehabilitation lead-safe work practices training course, distribute up to 75 sets of related training materials and provide technical assistance on lead liability and insurance.
For more information, please contact Jonathan Wilson at
Lead-Safe Homes Website Project:
In March 2002, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) contracted with the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) to develop an interactive, web-based lead database that utilizes "real time" information and mapping capabilites. more
For more information, please contact Jack Anderson at
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