HHI Program Links

Information by State

This page features key links to help currentand potential grantees, partners, and other stakeholders locate program and public health information beyond the HHI site:   Grantee and Partner Sites link to the sites of HHI partners and grantees   Federal Agency Sites link to the sites of federal agencies active in the Healthy Homes Initiative   International Sites provide a glimpse into the healthy homes-related work conducted outside the United States   University Sites connect to Universities that are active in public health research   State and Local Public Health Sites link to sites illustrating the efforts of local government in researching and re-mediating public health concerns   Other Related sites connect users to additional building technology and public health resources across the country

Grantee and Partner Sites

• Child Abuse Prevention Council of Sacramento - sustainable systems to produce healthier, more socially productive children and families through prevention, coordination, training, and outreach activities to reduce abuse, neglect, and abandonment.
  
  
• Children's Health Environmental Coalition Network - national non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public, specifically parents and caregivers, about environmental toxins that affect children's health.
  
  
• Environmental Health Watch - non-profit organization that provides information, assistance, and advocacy to protect and sustain human health and the health of the environment. Provides information about healthy homes, lead poisoning, asthma, air pollution, chemical accidents, and climatic change.
  
  
• Esperanza Community Housing Corporation (ECHC) - provides an overview of ECHC's programs, service area, and mission that includes developing and preserving affordable housing.
  
  
• National Center for Lead Safe Housing - Founded in October, 1992, to bring the public health, housing, and environmental communities together to combat our nation's epidemic of childhood lead poisoning. Summarizes scientific research, technical assistance/training, rules, regulations, and policies. Provides pricing and QC information about NLLAP laboratories surveyed.
  
  
• National SafeKids Campaign - safety tips, resources, product recalls and coalition information to prevent unintentional injuries, the number one killer of children 14 and under.
  
  
• Northeast Denver Housing Center - community activities that enhance sustainable housing development needs. Describes Healthy Homes Initiative, lead poisoning prevention, and asthma trigger reduction programs.
  
  
• Opportunity Council - programs that augment local charities, including information referral, family services, child care resources, weatherization and home repair, and utility bill subsides.
  
  
• SafeUSA - public-private partnership dedicated to reducing the high rates of injuries and death by improving safety in the Nation's homes, schools, work sites, transportation facilities, and communities.
  
  
• USDA-HUD Healthy Home Partnership - for educating families about reducing housing hazards. Information includes USDA Healthy Homes extension staff by State, funding opportunities, and outreach materials.

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Federal Agency Sites

• CDC Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry's Office of Children's Health- examines relevant child health issues in CDC activities and stimulates new project to benefit children.
  
  
• CDC National Center for Environmental Health - information includes fact sheets on asthma, air pollution, environmental hazards and health effects, preventing lead poisoning.
  
  
• CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control - reduction of morbidity, disability, mortality, and costs associated with injuries. Information on injury care, violence, unintentional injuries and resources.
  
  
• CDC National Institute For Occupational Safety and Health - information about health hazards, asthma and allergies, asbestos, agricultural safety and health, publications, training, and funding opportunities.
  
  
• CDC SafeUSA Program - public-private partnership dedicated to reducing the high rates of injuries and death by improving safety in the Nation's homes, schools, work sites, transportation facilities, and communities.
  
  
• EPA Indoor Air Quality Homepage - information about asthma, radon, secondhand smoke, mold, IAQ tools for schools, and radiation protection.
  
  
• EPA National Center for Environmental Research - information on the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grant program.
  
  
• EPA Office of Children's Health Protection - source for information about asthma and upper respiratory illness, developmental and neurological problems, childhood cancer, indoor/outdoor air, ground water and drinking water, and pollutants in food.
  
  
• NIH Environmental Health Information Service - link to Environmental Health Perspectives.
  
  
• NIH National Institute for Child Health and Human Development - source for information about laboratory, clinical and epidemiological research on the reproductive, neurobiologic, developmental, and behavioral processes that determine and maintain the health of children, adults, families and populations. Includes health information, funding and research resources.
  
  
• NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Asthma Homepage - resources for those suffering from asthma and allergies, including research studies, allergy prevention information, and links to organizations.
  
  
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration - Carbon Monoxide: Summary of health hazards, workplace monitoring and medical surveillance, controls and the NIOSH/OSHA Health Guideline for CO.
  
  
• U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission - independent Federal regulatory agency with mission to keep American families safe by reducing risk or injury of death from consumer products. Provides links to Recall News and Reports of Unsafe Products.
  
  
• U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) - entity of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the mission of the USFA is to reduce life and economic losses due to fire and related emergencies, through leadership, advocacy, coordination, and support.
  
  
• USDA Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service - partnerships with the public and private sectors to maximize the effectiveness of limited resources to increase; provide access to scientific knowledge and strengthen the capabilities of land-grant and other institutions in research, extension and higher education; increase communication and promote informed decisionmaking by producers, families, communities, and other customers.

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International Sites

• Building Information Foundation RTS - low emissions construction technology; available in Finnish, Swedish, and English.
  
  
• Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation - Canada's equivalent to HUD.
  
  
• CMHC Healthy Housing Fact Sheets - affordable housing and construction in Canada.
  
  
• Danish Society of Indoor Climate - climate labeling of construction and interior products; available in Danish and English.
  
  
• Environmental Health in Family Medicine - free online curriculum for teaching and learning about environmental health - Canadian
  
  
• GEV/EMICODE EC - low emissions building materials, available in German and English.
• Housing Fund of Finland - Finland's Housing and Planning information.
  
  
• World Health Organization - global public health information.
  
  
• World Resources Institute - solutions to global environmental problems.

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University Sites

• Case Western Reserve University Pulmonary Hemorrhage and Hemosiderosis in Infants - information on Stachybotrys, the Cleveland outbreak, mold cleanup, health concerns and physician referral.
  
  
• Harvard Injury Control Research Center - interdisciplinary study of the causes and etiology of injury and its application for the development and evaluation of prevention and intervention strategies and policy.
  
  
• Johns Hopkins Center For Injury Research and Policy - public health approach to understand injuries and reduce their occurrence, severity and consequence to three major areas of injury control: primary prevention, acute care, and rehabilitation.
  
  
• University of California Indoor Air Quality Tools - indoor Air Quality Guidance document includes HVAC design, microbial growth and sampling methods, IAQ investigations, IAQ management during construction.
  
  
• University of Minnesota Environmental Health and Safety Program - Indoor Air Quality: chemical sensitivities, flood information, fungal abatement, HVAC decontamination, home indoor air quality.
  
  
• Montana State University- Indoor Air Quality: partnership of EPA Indoor Environments, Montana State University Extension Service, and USDA CSREES to educate consumers about sources, health risks, and control measures related to common residential indoor air problems and to help consumers reduce their health risks from these problems.

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State and Local Public Health Sites

• California Department of Health Services - research, demonstration, and surveys relating to sources and control of indoor pollution. Includes information about mold in English and Spanish, mold-related links; radon; VOCs.
  
  
• Minnesota Department of Health Children's Environmental Health - links to information about children's environmental health that includes lead poisoning prevention, pesticides in schools, chemical exposures, drinking water quality, environmental tobacco smoke and childhood asthma, indoor air quality.
  
  
• New Jersey Poison Information and Education System - non-profit organization that coordinates the treatment and distribution of information concerning poisons, drugs and targeted health issues, including lead poisoning and carbon monoxide through telephone management, consultation, education and research.
  
  
• New York City Department of Health Guidelines on Assessment and Remediation of Fungi in Indoor Environments - guidelines for environmental evaluation and intervention for fungi/mold. Includes health issues, environmental assessment, remediation, and hazard communication.

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Other Related Sites

Air Quality

• Carbon Monoxide Headquarters - extensive information on CO toxicology and metrics.
  
  
• Healthy House Institute - indoor air quality issues, construction, vacuum cleaners, air filters, chemical sensitivity.
  
  
• National Safety Council Indoor Air Program - fact sheets and educational materials about healthy home topics, including radon, pesticides, sick building syndrome, asthma, IAQ in schools.

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Building Construction and Technology

• Affordable Comfort - conference, events, training, and courses about improving the way old and new homes perform relative to health, safety, and durability.
  
  
• Energy and Environmental Building Association - non-profit organization promoting, awareness, education, and development of energy-efficient and environmentally responsible buildings and communities.
  
  
• School IPM - implementation of IPM in schools for parents, school administrators, faculty, and pest managers.

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Children's Health

• American Academy of Pediatrics - The Injury Prevention Program (TIPP) - advocacy, research, family and health care, and AAP membership.
  
  
• Asthma Moms Asthma Resources - resources for managing asthma in families, including medical literature, health services, recalls and products, air forecasts, camps, literature about asthma triggers, and medications.
  
  
• Boston Medical Center Doc4Kids Program - review of medical literature on housing-child health (asthma, respiratory disease) connection, injuries, lead poisoning, homelessness and malnutrition; testimonials from physicians on housing-health intersection.
  
  
• Children's Environmental Health Network - national project to protect the fetus and the child from environmental health hazards. Offers tips for parents, training manual for pediatric environmental health.
  
  
• Children's Safety Network - information and technical assistance in efforts to reduce unintentional injuries and violence to children and adolescents.
  
  
• Healthy Schools Network - research, information and referral, advocacy, and coalition-building to foster awareness of environmentally healthy schools.
  
  
• Injury Free Coalition for Kids - hospital-based injury prevention centers working with communities to prevent injury through research, education, intervention and advocacy.
  
  
• National SafeKids - safety tips, resources, product recalls and coalition information to prevent unintentional injuries, the number one killer of children 14 and under.

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General Public Health and Injury

• American Association of Poison Control Centers- poison prevention resources, educational materials, and contact information for poison centers.
  
  
• American Public Health Association - largest organization of public health professionals in the world. Concerns include personal and environmental health, pollution control, chronic and infectious diseases, and public education.
  
  
• Global Initiative for Asthma - collaboration of National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institute of Health, and World Health Organization to increase awareness of asthma and its public health consequences and study the association between asthma and the environment.
  
  
• Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center - Northwest U.S. injury control center with interests including safety promotions, motor vehicle-pedestrian injuries, fire, firearms, trauma, violence, falls, and emergency medical services to rural areas.
  
  
• Home*a*Syst - USDA's Cooperative Extension Service program presenting information on healthy homes topics, Lead In and Around Your Home, Indoor Air, Drinking Water, Hazardous Household Products, Pesticides in Yard and Garden, Septic Systems, Heating and Cooling, Household Waste, Stormwater, Fuel Storage, Assessing Risks in Your Homesite.
  
  
• Injury Control Resource Information Network - a dynamic list of key Internet accessible resources related to the field of injury research and control, including Federal and State agencies, injury data and statistics, publications and bibliographies.
  
  
• Lowe's Home Safety Council - public service organization with a vision of safer American homes through a grants program, teacher resources, traveling exhibit, volunteer teams, fun and edutainment site about home safety.
  
  
• Master Home Environmentalist - organization of volunteers founded by the American Lung Association of Washington to perform home environmental assessment and education/outreach training about residential indoor air quality issues.
  
  
• American Lung Association of Minnesota - Health House (home construction and health information on home pollutants, radon, building science, basement moisture, backdrafting, secondhand smoke.)
  
  
• National Center for Lead Safe Housing - founded in October, 1992, to bring the public health, housing, and environmental communities together to combat our nation's epidemic of childhood lead poisoning. Summarizes scientific research, technical assistance/training, rules, regulations, policies, and laboratory information.
  
  
• National Fire Protection Association - information source for fire and life safety/protection issues and developer of codes and standards.
  
  
• National Safety Council Environmental Health Center - air quality, children's environmental health, climate change, disaster recovery, hazardous chemicals, radiation/radioactive waste, solid waste, marine/coastal issues.
  
  
• National Safety Council Home Safety - safety, health and the environment in the home and its surroundings including, lead poisoning prevention, indoor air quality and speaker referral, agricultural safety, natural disaster preparedness, and sun safety.
  
  
• Pesticide Education Center - public education about health effects and safer, alternative pest control methods to educate consumers about making informed choices about protection from toxic pesticides.
  
  
• Poison Prevention Week Council - public information about the Poison Prevention Week Council, events associated with National Poison Prevention Week, and steps for preventing accidental poisonings.
  
  
• Society for Public Health Education- information to strengthen the relationship between health education, behavioral science and unintentional injury prevention, funding resources and useful contacts.

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