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Community Environmental Health Services supports regulatory environmental health services (Health Inspections Program, Vector and Nuisance Control) by ensuring that we are meeting community environmental health needs by 1) assessing and prioritizing environmental health services; 2) conducting community- based education and outreach; 3) actively building environmental health capacity through grant development/implementation, policy development, and leveraging community resources; and 4) evaluating programs and services to ensure we are reducing environmental health risks and meeting community needs. The following programs and services fall under the Community Environmental Health Services umbrella:
- Healthy Homes Program
- Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
- Community Education and Outreach Services
- PACE-EH
- Internship Program
- Capacity Building Products
TEAM MEMBERS:
- Community Services Supervisor, Mark Fulop
- Program Development Specialist Senior, Lynn George
- Health Educator, Kari Lyons
- Community Outreach Worker, Bilingual Spanish, Maria Rodas-Garcia
- Community Outreach Worker, Ben Duncan
- Community Health Nurse, Diane Drum
- Office Assistant II, Susana Betancourt
The Community Services Team conducts community workshops, education and outreach events. If you have any questions about events or would like to discuss Environmental Health education opportunities, please email our Health Educator, Kari Lyons, as lyonsk@co.multnomah.or.us or call her at (503) 988-3400 x 25860
HEALTHY HOMES PROGRAM
What Is The Healthy Homes Program?
The primary goal of the HUD funded Healthy Homes program is to decrease exposures to multiple household hazards which contribute to asthma exacerbations and other serious illnesses among children under the age of 6 in Portland's distressed communities of Multnomah County. A secondary goal is to implement sustainable healthy homes concepts at the programmatic and policy level. These goals will be achieved through:
- Mobilizing new and existing public and private resources with a holistic approach to accomplish Healthy Homes Objectives;
- Fostering cooperation among low-income residents, health care systems, all levels of government, the private sector (profit and non-profit), neighborhood groups, faith-based organizations, and environmental justice groups;
- Developing relationships with low-income homeowners, renters, property mangers and owners to improve housing through assessment, education, and remediation of physical/structural EH Hazards.
The program will work with eligible families in multiple types of home environments including: affordable housing, single family home, market rate apartments and multi-family complexes. The program integrates in-home case management activities and targeted community-based education and outreach to promote sustainability of healthy home concepts. The in-home portion of the program begins May 1, 2006. Community-based education and outreach will be available in late 2006.
What Are The Healthy Home Program Objectives?
- To engage stakeholders in the creation of sustainable collaboration between health and housing partners to promote healthy homes, fair housing and environmental justice;
- To decrease family home environmental exposures to asthma triggers, lead sources, and other indoor home hazards by implementing effective, low-cost home and asthma health and housing interventions using a multidisciplinary approach of education, hazard remediation and linkage to community resources.
- To promote program sustainability by integrating healthy home concepts into daily work of local housing and health workers (housing inspectors and remediation crews, landlords and property managers, primary care providers, community health workers, and field nurses) through training and technical assistance;
- To incorporate tracking and evaluation data into program decision-making in a continuous improvement process and to conduct an evaluation of the outcomes and impact of the program activities;
- To disseminate knowledge gained through community presentations, reports, and discussions with local government agencies and community-based organizations, media, academic publications and conferences.
Who Is Eligible To Participate In the Healthy Homes in-home case management Program?
200 families under 185% the federal poverty level who use Multnomah County Primary Care Clinics that have a child under 6 with asthma.
How Do I Get More Information About The Program?
To determine if your family is eligible for the in-home case management program, please down load the following resources: Enrollment Invitation and Healthy Home Brochure.
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