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AirMatters Toolkit
What is the AirMatters Program Toolkit?
The Air Matters Program moves beyond traditional indoor air quality education, empowering residents to take a hands-on, active and informed role in protecting their families from indoor air hazards. The toolkits include a set of 11 tools, instruments and materials that help detect, monitor and reduce exposure to common indoor air quality hazards. None of the tools alone can prevent indoor air hazards, but together, the tools have been shown to engage residents, promote behavior change and reduce risk.
How does it work?
Kits are used for outreach, as part of indoor air assessments and remediation, as part of asthma-home visit programs and as community-based outreach tools. Communities will often customize their toolkits, depending on the specific needs of their residents. As of 2023, over 2,300 toolkits had been distributed by tribes nationally.
How much do they cost?
With shipping and handling, the average cost of the kit is $105.00 each. The Tribal Healthy Homes Network purchases the supplies in bulk and assembles the toolkits and cue cards. Tribes and non-tribal communities fund their toolkit programs a variety of ways.
The kit is not intended to replace the evidence-based practices that are the national standard for outreach, including the “Asthma Home Visit” model, or the “Healthy Home Checklist”. Rather, the kit is intended to advance the efficacy of these practices, by moving residents along the continuum from education to empowerment, and from knowledge to action. These kits can be customized with specific tools for your residents and families.
Circuit-Rider Training Program
What is the Program?
The Tribal Healthy Homes Network Circuit-Rider program partners 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 this program, 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
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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.
Is there a cost?
The Tribal Healthy Homes Network covers up to 8 hours of on-site training time, at no cost to your tribe. 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.
SmokeMatters Toolkit
What is the SmokeMatters Toolkit?
The SMOKEMatters toolkit is a pre-assembled set of 6 different tools that promote home health and safety during wildfire events by educating and engaging residents. It includes culturally-tailored messages designed to engage residents, giving them cues on how to protect themselves from health and safety hazards caused by wildfires. The tools in the kit either measure or control and abate Carbon Monoxide and PM2.5 contamination, and target behaviors that are feasible and within a resident’s locus of control, such as filtration, dust mitigation, and insulation.
The kit is not intended to replace the evidence-based practices that are the national standard for outreach, including the “Asthma Home Visit” model, or the “Healthy Home Checklist”. Rather, the kit is intended to advance the efficacy of these practices, by moving residents along the continuum from education to empowerment, and from knowledge to action. These kits can be customized with specific tools for your residents and families.