Thurston County’s Healthy Homes Program trains volunteers to
provide free educational home visits to encourage behaviors and actions that
promote healthy living spaces – such as preventing and addressing mold,
creating healthy indoor air, reducing asthma triggers, reducing exposure to
toxins, and more. We have a free volunteer training coming up in
February! You can learn all about housing-related health risks and how to
identify, prevent, reduce, and address them. This training is fun and the
knowledge gained is useful in our daily lives.
Individuals can
take this training for professional development if it applies it to their current
work and not be expected to become a volunteer with the program.
When: Thursdays in February from 6:30-8:30 p.m. and
two Saturdays in March from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Saturday sessions include
lunch and will be scheduled based on group availability. The training is a
total of 16 hours, plus at least three “training visits” before volunteer
training is considered complete.
Where: Thurston County Public Health at 412 Lilly Rd.
NE, Olympia, 98506; across from St. Peter’s Hospital. Intercity Transit bus
routes # 60, 62A, and 62B serve the area. If transportation is an issue for
anyone who is interested, please don’t let that stop you from applying. We are
close to bus routes and there is a good chance that volunteers attending the
training can carpool.
Who: No prior experience is necessary; the training
teaches all you need to know to conduct Healthy Homes Visits in pairs. This
training is for anyone interested (or who works) in giving back to the
community, environmental health, housing, public health, health education,
children’s health, and healthy living.
What volunteers do: Volunteers can conduct Healthy
Homes Visits, participate in booths at community events, perform outreach, or
work on special projects. They are notified of opportunities to volunteer and
can sign up as their schedules allow. Healthy Homes Visits are free, voluntary,
and completely confidential. We are invited to do the visit by the resident,
where we perform a checklist and walk-through. Based on what we find we provide
information, guidance, and resource lists to the residents to help them take
the next steps. Individuals can take this training for professional development
if it applies it to their current work and not be expected to become a
volunteer with the program.
Contact Information: (360) 867-2674 or HealthyHomes@co.thurston.wa.us
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