Register for Healthy Homes Healthy Families: A Series of Regional Symposia

Media Contact: Phillip Dodge

COLUMBIA, MD (May 5, 2009) — In the coming weeks, NCHH is facilitating Healthy Homes Healthy Families: A Series of Regional Symposia to Develop a Statewide Healthy Housing Plan. The symposia will be held at various locations throughout California and is free; but space is limited, and we encourage you to register early. To register, click here [link disabled].

The results of the various regional meetings will culminate at a Statewide Symposia Healthy Housing for California: Reducing the Burden of Asthma and Other Health Impacts, which will be held in San Francisco on June 16 and 17.

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The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) is the only national scientific and technical nonprofit organization dedicated to creating healthy and safe homes for America’s children through practical and proven steps. NCHH develops scientifically valid and practical strategies to make homes safe from hazards, to alert low-income families about housing-related health risks, and to help them protect their children. NCHH also works with governmental and nongovernmental organizations to develop standards and programs and guide their implementation through insurers, lenders, federal and state laws and regulations, community organizations, and the courts.