Corporate Training By Zack Academy - California Conference on Lead, Housing and Healthy Homes

Why Should You Attend The California Conference on Lead, Housing and Healthy Homes?

The main purpose of The California Conference on Lead, Housing and Healthy Homes is to help attendees explore solutions to the challenges that are encountered each day in efforts to implement success programs. Attendees will hear from nationally-recognized health and housing experts, and learn about emerging trends in building and design from HUD, Rebuilding Together, HGTV, and DIY Network. Within six dynamic tracks, you can select from more than 130 education session and workshops. Choose the track that is most beneficial to your trade or professional interests. 

Environmental health practitioners, health educators, environmental hazard remediation professionals, and building operators face growing challenges. From tight budgets to issues of political and public support to determining appropriate work practices and to questions of environmental science, they all face mounting concerns of how to effectively operate and sustain programs, projects and businesses.

Explore successful techniques for increasing screening rates among at-risk populations; for undertaking housing-based primary prevention programs; for conducting public education and community outreach programs; for expanding from lead hazard control to Healthy Homes programs, for conducting integrated pest management and bed bug eradication programs; for conducing healthy housing inspections and remediation; for providing lead poisoning prevention and healthy housing information to refugee families; for creating an environmental health collaborative; and, for improving and streamlining grant management procedures.

Also of great value is the opportunity you’ll have to network with fellow grant managers and program staff from throughout the country.

Intended Audience:  The conferences bring together professionals from health, housing, community development, community groups, advocacy organizations, the lead industry, real estate firms, and residential and commercial facilities to explore ways to undertake programs and projects designed to prevent incidents of lead poisoning, eliminate indoor environmental hazards, and create healthy living and working environments.

Conference Objectives:

• Engage in interactive training programs that are excellent learning and technical assistance sessions
• Explore new ideas and approaches to meeting program objectives
• Network with those in the know and those who you want to know
• Take home hundreds of new ideas
• Participate in problem-solving, thought-provoking discussions
• Examine products, technologies and educational materials 

Conference Track Descriptions:

Showing the Value of Health Housing:

From air filters to washing machines, millions of Americans choose products and materials that help improve their health and reduce threats to the safety of their loved ones. This track is devoted to showcasing marketing and product development strategies in the home improvement retail market that encourage smart choices and improve our health.

Policy and Social Change:

This track examines various state and local policy initiatives and social entrepreneurs that are leading change across the nation and abroad to make our homes and communities safer and healthier.

Research and Evidence for Healthy Housing:

What's under the hood? This track looks at the science and evidence underlying decision-making and directions being taken by leaders in the housing and health worlds.

Healthy Homes Make Healthy Communities:

Can a home be "healthy" if it's located in an unhealthy neighborhood? Sessions in this track will address community-wide improvements, strategies, and policies intended to improve our lives and health.

Healthier by Design:

This track will focus on improving housing design, exploring how to improve current building practices to make our homes healthier as well as what best practices are most effective in both residential and commercial redesign settings.

Adaptable Healthy Housing:

Moving beyond outdated housing design and community models, this track features topics that address improving the accessibility of homes through the removal of physical and social barriers that challenge those with limited mobility, especially among veterans, those with disabilities, and the elderly.

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