Healthy Homes + Communities

Capabilities

• Training—ICF develops and delivers training on healthy homes-related work practices and successful approaches to community level programs.
• Evaluation—ICF conducts evaluations of healthy-homes and communities grant programs at the federal, state, and local level.  Our teams also work with clients to develop evaluation and tracking tools that they can implement themselves to measure program performance. We strive to build the capacity of our clients to capture and catalog tangible benefits achieved through these programs.
• Strategic planning—ICF helps federal, state, and local agencies develop strategies for leveraging available resources to increase the supply of healthy homes and promote healthy communities.
• Education and outreach—ICF designs and implements education and outreach campaigns and materials that show how individuals and communities can take action and the benefits that they can receive.
• Technical resources—Drawing on internal and external experts, ICF develops technical resources for use by builders, architects, renovators, and program managers designed to educate these audiences about practices that they can use to build healthy homes and promote healthy communities.

Clients

• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
  • Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • Office of Children’s Health Protection and Environmental Education
  • Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics

Projects

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  2011 National Healthy Homes Conference

  ICF is helping to plan the 2011 National Healthy Homes Conference entitled "Leading the Nation to Healthy Homes, Families, and Communities," which supports and responds to the growing demand for building and sustaining housing and communities that are healthy, safe, and green for America’s families.

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  Healthy Homes Training and Technical Assistance

  For more than 10 years, ICF has provided in-depth training and technical assistance to national, state, and local organizations to reduce health risks in housing, such as lead-based paint.

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  Advancing Healthy Homes – A Strategy for Action

  ICF helped a federal interagency work group develop this coordinated “strategy for action” to substantially expand the supply of healthy housing nationwide.

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  Common Community Measures for Childhood Obesity Prevention (COCOMO)

  ICF’s team served as the lead entity to identify a set of measures that can be used by local governments to assess promising policy and environmental change strategies for obesity prevention.