CEHRC’s Home Hazard Assessment trainings, conducted by an accredited trainer, can help your organization or agency build its capacity to conduct assessments for a wide range of health hazards in homes, such as lead in dust, paint, and soil, carbon monoxide, cock roaches, etc., and to communicate effectively with residents about the investigations and results. The training fee covers follow-up technical assistance from CEHRC to ensure that trainees are able to apply what they have learned to specific situations and to address uncertainties and questions that arise post-training.

Developed in consultation with technical experts, CEHRC’s training has been delivered over 20 times over the past three years to community-based organizations’ staff and volunteers, in both English and Spanish. We have incorporated participant feedback and ideas to improve and enhance the training. Hazard investigators trained by CEHRC have a strong track record of conducting hazard investigations in more than 3,000 homes in a dozen cities, and their organizations have successfully used hazard investigation results to advocate for corrective action and policy change to make homes safer.

We recently decided to broaden access to our training beyond CEHRC’s sub-grantee community in order to expand the movement to identify health hazards across the US. Knowing how to document and characterize health hazards in the area’s housing stock could be a vital part of your local lead poisoning prevention or healthy homes work. For all the details about the training options, our costs to provide the training, and how to schedule, see www.cehrc.org/tools/training/index.cfm.