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Help Yourself to a Healthy Home:  Protect Your Children's Health - 3rd Edition

 
In our colorful, easy-to-read booklet, "Help Yourself to a Healthy Home", you will learn to identify safety risks and hidden dangers in the home environment. Each of the nine chapters includes action steps to help you find problems and suggestions for ways to correct them.
 
 
 
 
 
Topics include indoor air quality, asthma and allergies, mold and moisture, carbon monoxide, lead, drinking water, hazardous household products, pesticides, and home safety. Information for additional sources of help are also provided at the end of each chapter.  The 56-page booklet is available in several other languages--Spanish, Vietnamese, Bosnian, Hmong, and Arabic. Each publication costs $1.50 (includes shipping).

Other resources include "Is Your Home a Healthy Home? Coloring and Activity Book" for $1.50 each (includes shipping) and an educator's guide with DVD titled "Healthy Homes: Assessing Your Indoor Environment," which is available for $5.00 each (includes shipping).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
To order these publications, use the online order forms.   We accept VISA and MasterCard. Or call (334) 844-5638 to request an invoice.
 
 
 

 More Resources.....

 
Learn about Healthy Homes activities in your state.
URL: Regional Healthy Homes Activities
Search the Healthy Homes resource collection for Extension publications and other materials developed for Healthy Homes programming.
URL: Healthy Homes Resource Collection
For State Project Managers yearly reporting
URL: Impact Report
For State Contact's yearly reporting.
URL: Healthy Homes Program Evaluation Form
Is Your Home a Healthy Home for Children?
URL: Danger in the Home
Takes users through a series of questions about their daily living habits. It then gives a personalized “action checklist” of easy, low-cost steps for protecting children from hazards such as lead poisoning and improper pesticide use.
URL: Healthy Homes Web Tool

Help Yourself to a Healthy Home Exhibit

This 3ft. x 6ft. workshop/conference exhibit describes 9 ways to maintain a healthy home. This is a great exhibit for your healthy homes program. Exhibit panels, exhibit board, and nylon carrying case are included.

This complete exhibit including display, display board, and carrying case costs $600.00.  You may also purchase the display panels only (fits a 3 ft. x 6 ft. display board) for $175.00.

To order this exhibit, submit an order using the online order form.   We accept VISA and MasterCard or give us a call (334-844-5638) and we can prepare you an invoice.
 
Help Yourself to a Healthy Home
English Version
ACES          HUD            USDA

The Healthy Homes Partnership is a collaboration of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Department
of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Alabama Cooperative Extension System at Auburn University.

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