Training manual, with included video!

Training and Reference Manual

The revised 1999 manual has received a major overhaul, but still maintains the key features that brought great appeal to the previous edition.  The revised manual also includes three new instructional modules dealing with:
  Building Science and Indoor Air Quality
  Secondhand Smoke
  Asthma
For County Extension Educators, Housing Authorities, Home-Buyer Clubs, Consumer Science Educators, and Public Health Staff
 
Would you like to organize a community indoor air quality education program? Assist consumers in reducing their exposure to residential indoor air pollution? Order this self-guided and self-contained manual that provides users with all the resources needed to offer community education programs dealing with common residential indoor air quality concerns.
 
The
manual
contains:
  • Silkscreened binder - 4 inches thick, 3-ring
  • 12 self-guided Instructional Modules (including transparency masters, support publications, and evaluations) 
  • Materials for detection and self-assessments
  • Training video
  • Listings for related publications, videos, and websites 
  • Personal contacts listed by state 
  • Marketing materials
  • Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools materials
  • And much more...
Produced by a national team of housing specialists, the Healthy Indoor Air for America's Homes Training and Reference Manual comes in a convenient 3-ring binder with 23 tabbed dividers for quick reference. The training manual is co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Montana State University Extension Service.

Contents of Training and Reference Manual

Tab 1:    Manual Overview
Tab 2:    IAQ Facts for the Community Educator
Tab 3:    IAQ Health Effects
Tab 4:    IAQ Building Science Instructional Module
Tab 5:    Home IAQ Overview Instructional Module
Tab 6:    Bugs, Mold, and Rot (Biologicals) Instructional Module
Tab 7:    Lead in the Home Instructional Module
Tab 8:    Formaldehyde in the Home Instructional Module
Tab 9:    Radon in the Home Instructional Module
Tab 10:  Combustion Pollutants in the Home Instructional Module
Tab 11:  Carbon Monoxide in the Home Instructional Module
Tab 12:  Hidden Environmental Hazards for the Home Remodeler Instructional Module
Tab 13:  Household Products Instructional Module
Tab 14:  Secondhand Smoke Instructional Module
Tab 15:  Asthma Instructional Module
Tab 16:  IAQ Tools for Schools
Tab 17:  IAQ Marketing and Media Support
Tab 18:  IAQ Detection and Self-Assessments
Tab 19:  IAQ Program Record Keeping and Evaluation
Tab 20:  IAQ Publication Listing
Tab 21:  IAQ Video Listing
Tab 22:  IAQ Publications & Website Sources of Information
Tab 23:  IAQ Extension Resources

Indoor Air Quality Video Sampler (Included with Manual)

  1. Healthy Indoor Air for America's Homes Public Service Announcement, Montana State University Extension Service Housing Program (:30)
  2. Home Air Care - Indoor Air and Your Health, American Lung Association, (12:30)
  3. Controlling Mold Growth in the Home, Kansas State University Cooperative Extension Service (15:00)
  4. Carbon Monoxide - What You Need to Know About the Number One Cause of Poisoning Deaths in America, BRK Brands, Inc./First Alert (4:45)
  5. Operation Safe Home - Backdrafting: Is Your Home Gasping for Air?, American Environmental Services (7:00)
  6. Lead Poisoning: The Silent Epidemic, Media by Design (22:10)
  7. Radon: The Health Risk Indoors, American Lung Association (10:00)
  8. Your House, Your Health - A Non-Toxic Building Guide, The Healthy House Institute (7:00)

Acknowledgements

Listed here are the individuals and organizations contributing to make the manual and the Healthy Indoor Air for America's Homes project a reality.

Project Funding Partners 

  • Dr. Joseph Wysocki, National Program Leader, Housing and Environment, United States Department of Agriculture - Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
  • United States Environmental Protection Agency - Indoor Environments Division
Project Initiation Committee

These individuals met at the AIRLIE Center in Airlie, Virginia July 17-19, 1995 to create the framework of the national indoor air quality program: 

  • Robert Anderson, West Virginia University
  • Marilyn Bode, Kansas State University - Cooperative Extension Service
  • Craig Dewitt, Clemson University
  • Sandra Eberle, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • John Guevin, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • Joseph Laquatra, Cornell University
  • Paul McCawley, USDA/CSREES/NRE
  • Maxine McManus, University of Tennessee
  • Shirley Niemeyer, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
  • Wanda Olson, University of Minnesota
  • Nancy Ostergaard, North Carolina State University
  • Ralph A. Otto, Deputy Administrator, USDA/CSREES/NRE
  • Kathleen Parrott, Virginia Tech
  • Joseph Ponessa, Rutgers Cooperative Extension
  • Richard Seifert, University of Alaska - Fairbanks, Alaska Cooperative Extension
  • Michael P. Vogel, Montana State University Extension Service
  • Joseph Wysocki, National Program Leader, USDA/CSREES/NRE
Project Director for Healthy Indoor Air for America's Homes
     
  • Dr. Michael P. Vogel, Professor and Extension Housing Specialist, Montana State University Extension Service
Project Team Members for Healthy Indoor Air for America's Homes
(See the Team Photo)
     
  • Dr. Joseph Laquatra, Associate Professor/Extension Housing Specialist, Cornell University 
  • Dr. Kenneth Hellevang, Professor, Extension Specialist, North Dakota State University - Extension Service
  • Dr. Joseph Ponessa, Associate Professor/Housing and Energy Specialist, Rutgers Cooperative Extension
  • Mr. Richard Seifert, Professor, Housing and Energy Specialist, University of Alaska - Fairbanks, Alaska Cooperative Extension Service
  • Laura Booth, Extension Associate, Alabama Cooperative Extension System - Auburn University
  • Dr. Michael P. Vogel, Professor, Housing and Residential Energy Specialist, Montana State University Extension Service

“www.healthyindoorair.org” is a partnership program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Indoor Environments Division, Montana State University Extension Service - Housing Program, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture - Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service.

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