CLEARCorps
Pittsburgh Is Now Recruiting New Members
June 28, 2006: Healthy Home Resources is recruiting Americorps volunteers
to start their service year immediately and work as part of a team
that
provides
a variety of services to families, caregivers, and professionals
in regard to lead poisoning, asthma triggers and cleaning for a healthy
home.
Team members need to be self-motivated, committed to serving the
community and possess strong communication skills for easy interaction
with children and adults of all educational backgrounds. Corpmembers
need to be able to adapt to an evolving work environment and sympathetic
to the daily demands of life faced by the families we serve. Team
members will be conducting one-on-one education sessions with families,
daycare staff and parents, performing a 15 minute puppet show and
guiding children through an interactive festival house at community
events.
Healthy Home Resources
CLEARCorps/Pittsburgh is operated by the nonprofit Healthy Home
Resources. Healthy Home Resources was created to address the rise
in illnesses caused or complicated by the presence of indoor environmental
hazards. Founded in 1997 as PbX, a lead poisoning prevention organization,
Healthy Home Resources has expanded its mission to address other
critical in-home threats to human health including asthma, indoor
air quality, household chemicals, child injury prevention, and take-home-from-work
hazards. Healthy Home Resources is the only environmental health
organization in Allegheny County, Pittsburgh that equips individuals
and families with the knowledge, support, and tools needed to reduce
their exposure to indoor environmental hazards.
Healthy
Home Resources' Lead Safe Programs
Our lead poisoning prevention programs include community and in-home
education, home assessments, and follow-ups. ClearCorps volunteers
are essential ingredients to this process. Volunteers hold education
sessions and perform visual assessments.
Healthy
Home Resources' AT HOME program (Asthma Trigger HOMe Evaluation
Program
The AT HOME program includes a set of research based in-home environmental
interventions that have been designed to directly and positively
influence the health of asthmatic children by lowering a myriad of
in-home environmental trigger levels or hazards. The ClearCorps volunteers
help educate child asthmatics and their caretakers about asthma trigger
prevention. They also play an integral role in the remediation of
the home.
Healthy
Home Resources' Home Safe Home Program
The Home Safe Home program is a child injury prevention program that
addresses the number one cause of deaths in youths under 22: preventable
injuries. The program involves a checklist for potential home hazards,
an education session for parents, and the distribution of various
free safety devices. ClearCorps members take an active role in the
execution of this program.
Local partnerships
Healthy Home Resources has partnered with many local organizations
in an effort to further its mission. HHR works closely with Allegheny
General Hospital, the American Respiratory Alliance, the University
of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, family support centers,
family care centers, community centers, the Housing Authority, and
various local childcare centers with the overarching goal of making
Pittsburgh homes safer places. These partnerships are integral to
providing Pittsburgh with a true resource for indoor environmental
threats.
Healthy Home Resources also emphasizes its partnerships with families,
as they are their own true agent of change.
Local funding and in-kind contributions
- The
Heinz Endowment
- The Wean
Foundation
- Housing
and Urban Development (HUD)
- Corporation
for National Community Service (CNCS)
- PPG
- University
of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- Affordable
Services
Contacts
John Gallo
Executive Director
Healthy Home Resources, Inc.
64 South 14th Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
Phone: 412- 431-4449 ext. 224
Fax: 412-431-4558
johng@healthyhomeresources.org
Amy M. Stiffey
Community Services Director
Healthy Home Resources, Inc
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
Phone: 412-431-4449 ext. 228
Fax: 412-431-4558
amys@healthyhomeresources.org
CLEARCorps/Pittsburgh team
Jane E. Trout
Internet links
Healthy
Home Resources
Conservation Consultants, Inc.
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