Adrienne Ettinger, ScD, MPH¹, Rebecca Morley, MSPP², Joanna Gaitens, MSN, MPH², Pat McLaine, RN, MPH³, and Ellen R. Tohn, mcp⁴. (1) Health Policy & Management and Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Room 455, Baltimore, MD 21205, 443-287-0778, aettinge@jhsph.edu, (2) National Center for Healthy Housing, 10227 Wincopin Circle, Suite 100, Columbia, MD 21044, (3) The National Center for Lead-Safe Housing, 10227 Wincopin Circle, Suite 205, Columbia, MD 45267, (4) ERT Associates & Asthma Regional Council, 5 Fields Lane, wayland, MA 017781

The National Healthy Homes Training Center and Network (NNNTCN) project team convened a Work Group of technical experts drawn from the disciplines influencing “Healthy Homes” including: public health, housing, building science, environmental engineering, environmental health, and training and education. The Work Group brought together public health and housing practitioners, clinicians, academics, building scientists, community advocates and policymakers to provide comprehensive and technically sound advice on the design, implementation, and evaluation of a comprehensive “Healthy Homes” curriculum. The Work Group was charged with identifying, describing, and agreeing on the core competencies of “Healthy Homes” practitioners that would subsequently be used to develop the curriculum. This included outlining the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities and level of proficiency needed in each sub-competency in a core “domain.” Discussion also focused on: types and sources of existing curricula that can be adapted to the Training Center, the target audience for proposed trainings and the necessary training infrastructure, including optimal formats and settings for specific course offerings by target audience (formal classroom setting, on-line/web based or in some other forum). Based on input from the Work Group and CDC, NCHH and its partners developed a consensus statement of the core competencies and target audiences in order to develop a Healthy Homes curriculum and build the infrastructure of a national Healthy Homes Training Center and Network. The development of a standard set of core competencies was essential to conceptualizing the form and functionality of the Healthy Homes Network going forward.

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