Thanks to all who attended the 2011 Indiana Healthy Homes and Child Care Conference.
Mark your calendar for the 2012 Healthy Homes and Child Care Conference: October 3-4 at the Marten House Hotel and Lilly Conference Center.
Final 2011 conference agenda available here.
Asthma Safe Award:
- Barbara Sha Cox of Indiana CAFO Watch
- Danette Fariss, St. Vincent-Peyton Manning Children's Hospital
Lead Safe Award:
- Vigo County Health Department
- Cathy Shaw and Jane McIntyre, Howard County Health Department
- Office of Attorney General Greg Zoeller
Healthy Homes Award:
- Indiana Community Action Association
IDEM 5-Star Child Care Awards:
- Little Saints Child Care & Preschool Ministry
- Monroe County United Ministries
- Robin's Nest Childcare Center
- Humble Beginnings Childcare
Special Recognition:
- Lynette Brown, Wayne County Health Department (retired)
- Bruce Jennings, City of Bloomington (deceased)
With the speakers' permission, we have included pdf versions of most conference presentations below. You will need the free Adobe Reader software to open these files.
Abbott: Keep it Maintained: Enforcing a Property Maintenance Code
Ambro: Keep It Safe: Home Safety Issues
Bloom: CDC Toolkit on International Adoption & Refugee Issues
Bloom: Home Visiting: Working with Families in the Home Environment
Bloom: Lead 101: The Basics of Lead Poisoning
Bloom-Turner: Radon 101: Indiana’s Silent, Invisible, Odorless Killer
Cagle: Tips for Working with the News Media (no presentation)
Cauldwell-Mulanya: Keep it Contaminant-Free: Using the Public Health Emergency Surveillance System to Identify Indoor Air Quality Hazards
Cauldwell: Keep it Dry: Strategies for Preventing and Combating Mold (not available)
Cole: The Indiana Poison Center – Your Resource for Home Poison Prevention (not available)
Ferber: Health Impacts of Climate Change (not available)
Filippelli: Lead-Safe Urban Gardening
Henderson: Lead-Safe Urban Gardening
Gano: Adult Blood-Lead Levels & New CDC Guidelines for Pregnant Women
Gano-Perras: Healthy Homes Survey and Lead Legislative Report
Gibb: Bedbug Prevention and Safe, Effective Control through IPM (not available)
Hudson: Most Common Violations in Childcare Facilities
Jay: Super Bacteria & Issue of Antibiotics in Animal Feed (not available)
Junk: A Legal Template for Taking Local Action Against Lead
Other Tim Junk documents:
Complaint against landlord
Affidavit by Dr. Joan Duwve of ISDH
Lobdell: Bedbug Strategies for Apartments, Section 8 Housing and Hospitals
Lulling: Home Visiting: Working with Families in the Home Environment (not available)
McClain: Asthma Basics for Childcare Facilities
McClain: Environmental Factors Harmful to Children
McCormick: Finances: Medicaid Billing Issues & How State and Federal Budget Problems Could Affect Local Health Departments
McCormick: Indiana State Department of Health Lead Rules Update
McCormick: Indiana’s Healthy Homes Strategic Plan
McSwane: BPA, Phthalates, and Other Emerging Contaminants: How to Protect Children
Morris: Emergency Action Planning for Childcare Facilities
Morris: EPA’s Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule and the States
Nall: Keep it Ventilated: ASHAE Guidelines for Ventilation Standards (coming soon)
O’Bryan: Keep it Clean: The Problem of Hoarding (not available)
Perras: Improving Kids’ Environment Update
Perras: Lead Basics and the Renovation, Repair & Painting Rule for Childcare Facilities
Rhodes: Unique Safety Concerns when Children Share Homes with Elderly
Sara Snow (not available)
Teliha: IDEM’s 5-Star Environmental Recognition Program for Childcare
Thomas: Home Visiting: Working with Families in the Home Environment
Witherspoon: Why Children are Different When It Comes to Environmental Health
Woolson-Helrigel: Turning Trash into Toys, Art, and Fun (no presentation)
Keynote Speakers:
Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, Executive Director, Children's Environ mental Health Network
In her role as executive director of CEHN, Ms. Witherspoon has served as the “Voice for Children’s Environmental Health” in the nation’s capital for the past 10 years. She is a key spokesperson for children’s vulnerabilities and the need for their protection. Ms. Witherspoon is a contributing author to Mike Wallace’s 2008 book titled Where We Will Be 50 Years From Today: 60 Of The World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Visions On The Next Half-Century and co-author on the publication titled: “Incorporating environmental health into pediatric medical and nursing education.” Environmental Health Perspectives 112: 1755-60 (2004).
Sara Snow, Green Living Expert and Television Host
A former reporter for FOX 59 in Indianapolis, Sara helped put the first TV series about natural living on the air in 2005 when “Living Fresh” debuted nationally. It was followed later by “Get Fresh with Sara Snow” on Discovery Health. She is the author of Sara Snow's Fresh Living; The Essential Room-by-Room Guide to a Greener, Healthier Family and Home. While Sara continues development work on her next series, she has stepped into her biggest role yet, that of mom to her daughter Silvia. Meanwhile she continues to teach and inspire countless individuals about simple and effective ways to green businesses, homes, families and communities.
