Healthy Housing Conferences, which bring together the nation's leading authorities on lead poisoning prevention, lead hazard control and healthy housing issues, invites you to attend a three-day conference to explore ways to undertake programs and projects desiged to prevent incidents of lead poisoning, eliminate indoor environmental hazards, and create healthy living and working environments. This conference will bring together professionals from health, housing, community development, community groups, advocacy organizations, the lead industry, real estate firms, and residential and commercial facilities to achieve these important goals.
Ways You'll Benefit by Attending:
-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
-Explore today's most important policy and operating issues that directly impact how you carry out lead poisoning prevention, lead hazard assessment and control, and healthy housing programs
The Conference Serves the Interests of All the Stakeholders:
-State and Local Government Officials: public health practitioners, city housing and community development administrators, code officials, neighborhood improvement and housing rehab officials, Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes grantees
-Health Advocates: community-based program administrators, health educators and neighborhood activists
-Lead Industry Practitioners: certified lead inspectors, risk assessors, lead hazard control and abatement contractors, project designers and laboratory managers
-Environmental Industry Professionals: environmental consultants, industrial hygienists, mold investigation and remediation companies
-Facility Managers, Maintenance Supervisors and Contractors: weatherization companies, remodelers, multi-family residential managers, school officials, building operators and physical plant administrators
-And You! Sign up for this Healthy Housing Conference today and join the fight to prevent lead poisoning!
Supporting Organizations Include:
-National Association of Lead and Healthy Homes Grantees
-Lead and Environmental Hazards Association
-National Center for Healthy Housing
-Coalition for Environmentally-Safe Communities
-American Lead Poisoning Help Association
The conference features programs designed to provide “how to” information on a variety of topics including: Healthy Homes, lead poisoning prevention, lead hazard control, indoor environmental hazard identification and remediation, grant management, education and outreach strategies, and the consequences and ramifications of lowering the blood lead reference value from 10 to 5. The conference also includes time for networking and to meet with company representatives to discuss how their products and services can be used in the lead and indoor environmental hazards assessment and remediation fields.