Healthy Homes for Family ChildCare
The Minnesota Department of Health is planning a healthy homes education project for in-home family child care providers. The goal of the project is to promote an integrated approach to reducing exposure to potential hazards in homes that also function as child care settings.
Three Phases of the project:
- Radon Testing
- To sign up for radon testing Healthy Homes Form (PDF:16.0KB/1 page).
- Online Healthy Homes Education
- The online training course is almost complete, check back here for a link to the online training.
- Online Home Assessment Tool with Customized Action Plan
- The online assessment is almost complete, check back here for a link to the assessment tool.
- Radon Mitigation
- To learn more about radon mitigaiton Click Here.
- To see the list of contractors Click Here.
Radon testing is the first step to determine if your family is being exposed to high levels of radon. Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer, to learn more about radon Click Here.
Your home can potentially have many hazards to your health, wether that be from the materials that your homes was built with or how your home is operated. Learning about the potential hazards is the first step in identifying ways to make your home healthier.
Our online assessemnt tool will allow you to inspect your own home for the most common hazarads. Once you have completed the assessment a customized action plan will be emailed to you.
To be eligible for radon mitigation you must complete the above steps by March 30, 2014. All mitigation sysems will be install by Nationally certifed and MDH listed radon contractors.
