Help yourself to a Healthy Home

Protect Your Children's Health

The program's goals are to help families learn about possible dangers in their homes & ways to reduce their risks.
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Welcome to the Purdue Extension Teaching curriculum for the Help Yourself to a Healthy Home program. The Healthy Homes Partnership is a collaboration of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and University of Wisconsin-Extension.

Resources for each module include:

  • PowerPoint Presentation (14-18 slides designed for a 45-60 min. program)
  • Teacher's Guide with Program Objectives
  • Notes with ideas/suggestions for teaching
  • Other Resources
  • Link to Participant Handout
  • Script of PowerPoint Presentation
  • Pre-Test
  • Post-Test
  • Streaming Video Presentation of the PowerPoint Slides
  • Feedback Form

Visit the Healthy Homes website for different ways to obtain this information.

This information can be shared with County Healthy Departments, local day care centers, local doctor's offices, or other collaborators handling these issues.

Whenever possible, please include the pre-test and post-test in your presentation(s). Tally the results for the presentation and forward the results to Cathy Burwell, ceb@purdue.edu. The information is made available via a grant from USDA-CREES & HUD's Healthy Homes program. It is important that we show how the information has been used, and what audiences have been reached.

The Purdue Extension Help Yourself to a Healthy Home Teaching Curriculum was prepared by:

Cathy Burwell/ Kendra Freeman
Healthy Homes and DeKalb County
State Project Manager CFS Educator
765-494-7795/ 260-925-2562
ceb@purdue.edu/ kfreeman@purdue.edu