Toolkit & Circuit Rider
Training Programs
What are the Training Programs?
The Training programs partner with you and your tribal community to provide customized, on-site, healthy homes training. We principally train tribes across Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska, but with special arrangements, we also train tribes across the country. Since 2008, we have worked side-by-side with tribes and reached over 1200 tribal professionals through our programs, including:
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tribal housing, construction and resident-services staff
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maintenance crews
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tribal environmental, air quality and IGAP staff
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teachers and caregivers in tribal schools and early childhood learning facilities
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clinicians, nurses and community health workers in tribal health care custodial staff
How does it work?
Once you contact us to initiate a training request, we will work with you to design a curriculum that meets your training needs and arrange logistics. Your workshop lasts anywhere from a 4- hour to an 8-hour session, to two full days, depending on the number of different departments you would like trained. Prior to your training, we connect you with EPA, HUD and healthy home professionals to ensure we are bringing you the best available science and the most current resources.
What type of Topics can the Training Cover?
Healthy Homes Introduction: Covers the full range of indoor air quality contaminants, from sources to health effects to best practices for prevention and remediation of hazards.
Best Practices for Prevention of Mold & Water Damage: Covers the specific materials, construction practices and maintenance issues that contribute to water damage and subsequent mold contamination. Covers use of flashing, insulation, ventilation, air sealing, microbial assessment, and containment.
Building Sciences and Indoor Air Quality: Covers principles of building science including air movement, ventilation, heating and cooling. Includes in-depth coverage of healthy home and green building practices.
Healthy Homes for Residents & Tenants: Covers Air Matters resident education program and toolkits, which include green cleaning kit, mold removal kit, microfiber cloth, non-toxic pest trap, dust mite pillow cover, radon test kit, temperature and humidity gauge, chimney thermometer, moisture meter, carbon monoxide alarm, lead test kit and cue cards.
Integrated Pest Management: Covers environmentally friendly, common sense approaches to controlling pests. Focus is on prevention and use of pesticides as a last resort.
Green Cleaning, Household Products and Health Effects: Covers the health effects of common cleaning and household products, including but not limited to cleansers, bleach, air fresheners, dryer sheets, perfumes, colognes, solvents, paints, etc. Includes training on effective and less expensive alternatives.
Asthma Home Visit Programs - Environmental Checklists and the Assessment Process: Covers the indoor air assessment component of asthma home visit programs. Includes developing customized IAQ checklists for health aides or air quality staff to utilize with home visit programs. Includes training on how to perform the IAQ assessment.
How much does it cost?
The Tribal Healthy Homes Network covers up to 8 hours of on-site training time, at no cost to your tribe when combined with toolkits purchases. Travel expenses for our trainers are typically paid for by the host tribe. However, tribes have also used HUD grants, EPA grants, and HUD technical assistance funding to cover all of the training costs.