Learn to coach children and older adults with asthma to reduce environmental triggers in their homes

• Date:  May 2, 2014, 8:30- 4:30 pm

• Location: Whitney Conference Center, 361 Whitney Ave, Holyoke, MA

• Cost: FREE (lunch and refreshments provided)

• Registration is closed.  Contact pioneervalleyasthmacoalition@gmail.com to check for cancellations

Who Should Attend:  Community health workers, health educators, public health nurses, visiting nurses, child care visitors--any outreach workers who visit children or older adults in their homes

Presenter:  Dave Turcotte, UMass Lowell New England Healthy Homes Training Center

DEADLINE for registration: April 17, 2014

Registration is limited—priority will go to those who do home visiting with children or older adults with asthma.

Training goals:
This training will teach home visitors how to provide healthy homes information to families of children with asthma or older adults with asthma.   Home visitors will learn to provide one-on-one and large group education on healthy homes for people with asthma, provide general advice about specific healthy homes problems, and be able to recommend healthy homes approaches to be taken by families, landlords and other community members. For more information, visit the National Center for Healthy Housing

David Turcotte is Research Professor in the Department of Economics and Director of the Lowell Healthy Homes Program and New England Healthy Homes Training Center at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.  He is Principal Investigator/Director of  HUD funded Asthma Interventions in Public and Assisted Multifamily Housing Program and Healthy Homes Technical Studies Program grants and has administered several environmental health projects, including an EPA funded initiative to protect children’s health and a previous HUD funded Healthy Homes Demonstration Program grant.  David chairs the Massachusetts Asthma Action Partnership and its Healthy Housing Committee and is a member of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Older Adult with Asthma Taskforce.  He has conducted numerous healthy homes training courses over the last 12 years and holds a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in Work Environment Policy/Pollution Prevention/Cleaner Production.

CEU's
This National Center for Healthy Housing course is approved for 6.0 contact hours  by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Approval valid through 8/20/2015. Assigned ONA #16393.

Sponsors
Sponsored by the Pioneer Valley Asthma Coalition, Holyoke Food and Fitness Policy Council, Holyoke, Northampton, Springfield and West Springfield Health Departments and Springfield Office of Elder Affairs. Support provided by an EPA IAQ Grant and Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts.

National Center for Healthy HoUsing

UMass Lowell New England Healthy Homes Training Center