HUD AWARDS $98 MILLION TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM LEAD AND OTHER HOME HAZARDS
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently announced that it awarded $98 million in grants to protect children from lead and other home-based health hazards. GHHI sites in Salt...
View Article2013 GHHI Executive Leadership Institute Takes Place June 10-12 in...
The 2013 GHHI Executive Leadership Institute (ELI) kicks off next week in Providence, Rhode Island. Taking place June 10-12, it promises to be a great convening from which we hope attendees leave...
View ArticleChildren in GHHI’s "Safe at Home" Program Show Improvements in Asthma Control
The GHHI Safe At Home program provides vital assistance and services to families in Baltimore who have children suffering from asthma. GHHI enrolls households into the program if there is a child ages...
View ArticleSafety Starts with Me: Home Improvement and DIY Tips
To close out National Home Safety Month, we bring to you a guest blog submitted by the Asbestos Cancer Victims’ Rights Campaign.
View Article2013 GHHI ELI: Tell Us Your Site's Story (Dubuque)
Eric Dregne is the Vice President of Programs at the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque. During the 2013 Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Executive Leadership Institute, he shared the impact...
View ArticleGHHI's Healthy Homes, Happy Families Magazine Now Available
We're excited to announce the publication of the first-ever GHHI magazine! Titled Healthy Homes, Happy Families, it is an 8-page, full-color publication that features stories on the pilot year of GHHI...
View ArticleMeet the Breathe Easies!
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Ad Council have teamed up in the launch of public service announcements featuring a new band of puppets called the Breathe Easies who star in online music...
View ArticleLights, Camera, Action: My Work with the Environmental Spielbergs-in-Training
Over the past year, I collaborated with the Environmental Justice Partnership’s Student Environmental Development Program (SEDP) to promote GHHI’s Safe at Home Asthma program. The nine participants, in...
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National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week: Oct. 20-26, 2013
It's that time of the year again! Observed October 20-26, National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week is upon us.This year's National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week theme, "Lead-Free Kids for a Healthy...
View ArticleTenant’s Rights – Using Maryland’s Laws to Create Lead Safe Housing for...
Any child who lives in a property built before 1978, the year lead-based paint was banned for use in homes, may be at risk from lead hazards in their home. The number one reason that we hear from...
View ArticleResponse to MDE 2012 Childhood Blood Lead Surveillance Report
While we are heartened to see the continued decrease in the number of poisoning cases reported above 10ug/dL, it is clear there is much work to be done to educate the public on the impact of very low...
View ArticleEasy Ways to Prevent Poisoning in Your Home
March 16-22, 2014 is National Poison Prevention Week! As adults, it’s often easy to avoid poisoning with a little common sense. But how safe are children and pets in your home?
View ArticleRhode Island childhood lead poisoning rates drop
In 2013, 225 fewer children across the state had elevated lead levels than in 2012. Housing improvements made in Providence account for about half of these gains, according to the Rhode Island...
View ArticleCelebrate Earth Day with Our Energy Efficiency Challenge
Celebrate Earth Day by giving your home an energy-efficiency makeover. According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the largest sources of energy consumption in a home are space heating (45%) and...
View ArticleYou Can Control Your Asthma
GHHI recognizes and thanks all of our partners and supporters—in cities across the United States—for the excellent work they are doing to raise awareness about asthma and to reduce asthma triggers in...
View ArticleGHHI’s New Asthma Fact Sheet
Download and share our Asthma Fact Sheet with your neighbors and coworkers.
View ArticleGHHI at the National Healthy Homes Conference
Green & Healthy Homes Initiative and many of our sites will attend and present at the National Healthy Homes Conference at Music City Center in Nashville, TN from May 28-30. See below for the full...
View ArticleNational Healthy Homes Conference a Success
Last week several of us from GHHI took advantage of the excellent opportunity to participate in the National Healthy Homes Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. It was wonderful to meet with—and learn...
View Article#NoSafeLevel Twitter Town Hall on June 18
Please join Green & Healthy Homes Initiative for a Twitter Town Hall to discuss “Challenges and Lessons Learned: Lead Poisoning Prevention Awareness” from 10-11am on Wednesday, June 18. GHHI’s...
View ArticleTwitter Town Hall Recap
The Baltimore-based Town Hall generated many great local and national ideas and resources for enhancing our lead poisoning prevention awareness efforts. To catch up on the lively discussion, check out...
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