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- Upcoming FREE Mold Seminars
- Pure Air Control Services offers an array of educational IAQ training courses. These comprehensive courses have been a tremendous success. Past attendees ranged from governments, educational facilities (K-12), resorts, health care, home manufacturers, environmental consultants, to HVAC contractors, home inspectors, and industrial hygienists.
- CEU's Available
- June 17, 2009
1:00pm-2:00pm - July 1, 2009
12:00pm-1:00pm - Click here for more information
- Planning for Healthy Places with Health Impact Assessments
- online
- free e-learning course
- Click here for more information
- Principles and Practices of New Urbanism – University of Miami School of Architecture and the Congress for the New Urbanism
- Registration: March 2 - April 30, 2009
- Course: May 4- August 10, 2009
- online
- cost is $300 and includes a certificate upon completion
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- Health Impact Assessment in Practice e-Learning Course
- sponsored by the NHS Health Scotland Health Impact in Practice
- online
- Click here for more information
Get ready! The Healthy Homes In-Service on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 will surely be a great opportunity for professional development and learning. The National Healthy Homes Training Center and Network has created a course which will be piloted on Tuesday, February 17 at the 4-H Center. Many Family and Consumer Sciences faculty members have taken the National Center for Healthy Housing “Essentials for Healthy Homes Practitioners” two-day course and a few of us have become trainers with the Center.
The one-day course that will be offered on February 17 is targeted to individuals who work with or advocate for families, and will train Educators to provide one-on-one and large group education on healthy homes, 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. The course is presented through a partnership with the National Center for Healthy Housing, with funding provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department
of Housing and Urban Development and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Please register by January 26. You can register by emailing or faxing your registration form to me. There will be participants registering from other organizations so I would appreciate you getting your registrations in quickly so I have an idea of how many Extension participants we will have. The agenda will be sent in early February to all registrants. Click here for the course outline.
Lis Maring, Ph.D.
Family Life Specialist
Department of Family Science
efmaring@umd.edu
301.405.8339 (phone)
301.314.9161 (fax)
Health Homes In-Service
February 22, 2008
An enthusiastic group comprised of FCS and 4-H educators, members of the School of Public Health, and Maryland Cooperative Extension met at the 4-H Center on February 7 to learn about ways to integrate Healthy Homes into their work. Dr. Nick Place provided a great launch to the day. Dr. Joe Wysocki, National Program Leader at CSREES for Housing and Indoor Environment shared a broad perspective on national initiatives in Healthy Homes. Dr. Elisabeth Maring and Dr. Bonnie Braun discussed the Healthy Homes Focus Team and the activities that are supported by the generous funding of Maryland Cooperative Extension mini-grant.
(Lynn Little and Jean Austin, field faculty implementing Healthy Homes)
The four activities of the multi-method approach are: needs assessment, website development, citizen engagement/policy development via deliberative forums, and leveraging partnerships. Lynn Little and Jean Austin presented excellent resources, thought-provoking questions, and examples of teaching techniques. Recipients of mini-grants from CSREES presented on their program successes: Susan Morris highlighted Aging in Place; Megan O’Neil-Haight prepared a presentation on Consumer Products which was presented by Crystal Terhune; Joanne Hamilton and Debbie Rhoades provided insight into Delivering Healthy Homes programs to child care providers. A participant commented in the evaluation on the merit of having “actual, real examples of how others have gotten involved to help us know how to proceed.”
The afternoon was dedicated to a research and training perspective with School of Public Health professors, Dr. Edmond Shenassa and Dr. Amir Sapkota presenting their research and potential areas for field faculty to collaborate in exploring pediatric injuries, asthma, and other health-related problems associated with indoor environmental conditions. A participant wrote in the evaluation, “We would love to be directly involved in assisting with these projects—we are where the feet hit the street…” The final presenter was Tom Neltner, the Director of Training and Education with National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) who arrived with moisture meter, glue traps, and a short introduction to NCHH’s Essentials for Healthy Homes Practitioners course.
Registered participants walked away with a box of Healthy Homes materials purchased and organized by Lynn Little and Jean Austin with funds from the Healthy Homes Partnership Grant funded by CSREES. There was even a lunch hour surprise baby shower for Crystal Terhune!
The day provided us all with a way to think about Dr. Nick Place’s eight overarching principles for MCE-- the existing impact and potential for growth of a Healthy Homes program in Maryland that makes a difference in the quality of life for our citizens.
Dr. Nick Place, MCE Associate Dean and Associate Director
Dick Byrne, FCS Program Leader and Joe Wysocki, CSREES National Program Leader for Housing and Indoor Environments
UMES faculty, Dr. Virginie Zoumenou and Educator, Lorraine Harley
Tom Neltner from National Center for Healthy Housing
For more pictures from the In-service go to:
For more information, contact Lis Maring
Last updated: 06/17/2009
HELP SUPPORT THE MARYLAND 4-H HORSE PROGRAM!
The Maryland 4-H Horse Program is now selling shirts and jackets. Items available for sale include short sleeve and long sleeve polo shirts, windbreaker jackets, and fleece jackets embroidered with the Maryland 4-H Horse Program Logo. - posted Oct 23, 2009
Announcing, 2010 Maryland 4-H Engineering Camp!!!!!!
Please mark your calendars for the first Maryland 4-H Engineering Camp, April 16-18, 2010.
- posted Oct 23, 2009
Diamond Clover Award Recipients
Diamond Clover award recipients on the web! - posted Oct 23, 2009
