Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Training Center (HHLPPTC) Training Tracks

Program Management Training Track

This track presents key concepts and skills for HHCLPPP program managers or assistant program managers. The training focuses on the following topics and includes hands-on exercises for reinforcement of critical concepts.

• Managing a Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, including a housing-based approach to primary prevention, elements of a successful HH and CLPPP, being a CDC HH and CLPPP grantee, developing a shared program vision, the evolving role of CLPPPs

• Financial management, including structure and function of grants and cooperative agreements, budgeting, Medicaid reimbursement, and effective and successful grant writing

• Program evaluation, including process for program evaluation, selecting and writing effective goals and objectives, logic models, and benefits of evaluation

• Legal and regulatory frameworks for prevention, including lead-safe housing standards, and complementary regulatory infrastructure and initiatives

• Collaboration and partnerships to achieve program objectives, including discussion of key stakeholders, effective collaborations for strategic lead elimination, and working with Medicaid and other partners

• Surveillance: data collection and management, including an overview of data reporting and quality issues, data sharing, using and disseminating data, and preparing for NEDSS

Data and Surveillance Training Track

This track introduces key concepts and skills important to HH and CLPPP data managers or surveillance staff.  The training focuses on the following topics and includes hands-on exercises for reinforcement of critical concepts.

• Key elements of a childhood blood lead surveillance system, the role of federal and state surveillance systems, transitioning to web-based tracking systems

• Data management and quality, including data entry and verification, data quality and error correction, electronic laboratory reporting (ELR), and reporting to CDC

• Analyses of surveillance and program data, including basic epidemiological concepts and definitions, strengths and weaknesses of lead surveillance data, descriptions of valid analyses for assessing blood lead screening, case management, and other measures of interest to HH and CLPPPs and the community

• Dissemination of surveillance and HH and CLPPP data, including strategies for presenting, communicating, and disseminating data to different audiences

Primary Prevention Training Track

This track presents a broad range of alternative strategies for incorporating primary prevention of housing hazards, and is appropriate for all HH and CLPPP staff disciplines. The training focuses on the following topics and includes hands-on exercises for reinforcement of critical concepts.

• Overview of primary prevention for HH and CLPPPs, including the feasibility of housing-based primary prevention, elements of a comprehensive primary prevention program, common obstacles, shifting from secondary to primary prevention, and important definitions

• Strategies for advancing primary prevention, including

  • targeting high-risk houses and populations
  • building awareness and community support
  • communicating risk information clearly
  • building technical capacity for lead safety
  • legal and regulatory tools, including lead safety standards, code enforcement, lead hazard disclosure, and other systems
  • collaboration and partnerships
  • financing and subsidies for primary prevention
  • leveraging other resources
  • making the most of available resources

• Techniques for monitoring progress, including opportunities for program evaluation and research, process for program evaluation, and distinction between evaluation and research

Case Management Training Track

This track introduces key concepts and skills necessary for HH and CLPPP staff with responsibility for case management.  The training focuses on the following topics and includes hands-on exercises for reinforcement of critical concepts.

• Introduction to case management for childhood lead poisoning, review of current CDC recommendations for case management, role of public health, and presentation of key policy issues

• Assessment and remediation of residential lead exposure, including assessment criteria and assessment tools, and current research findings on environmental exposure sources and interventions

• Medical assessment and interventions, including the role of the case manager in secondary prevention, current medical management research and practices for children with EBLLs, and tools case managers can use to work with primary care providers

• Nutritional assessment and interventions, including risk factors for nutritional deficiencies, relevant research findings, and tools state and local HH and CLPPPs can use

• Developmental assessment and interventions, including screening tools for case managers, and options for referral and for promoting long-term developmental surveillance

• Educational interventions for caregivers, including review of recommended caregiver educational strategies and the related scientific literature

• Development of a case management plan

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