Smoke-Free Housing Training
A FREE Training for Allied Public Health and Housing Professionals
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
1:00-3:30pm
Wyndham Portland Airport Hotel
363 Maine Mall Road
South Portland, ME 04106
The Smoke-Free Housing Coalition of Maine, in collaboration with the Partnership For A Tobacco-Free Maine, is providing this free, two-hour training specifically for allied health and housing professionals. The training will provide the justification for adopting a smoke-free policy as well as critical information necessary for effective advocacy for the implementation of such a policy in multi-family, residential settings.
This is an excellent opportunity for property managers, residential coordinators, physicians and medical personnel, client advocates, health educators, public health advocates, lawmakers and others to learn about the cost effectiveness of adopting smoke-free policies in residential settings, and the ease with which such policies can be implemented. The training includes advice about tested messaging for advocating for change as well as publicizing the policy once it has been adopted.
- Learn how easy and cost-effective it is to go smoke-free in your multi-unit building.
- Hear from leaders in the smoke-free housing movement on key messaging for the effective advocacy of smoke-free policy change.
- Increase your understanding of the role you play as a public health or housing professional in the smoke-free housing initiative.
- Leave with the resources and tools that can help you to adopt smoke-free policies and to assist prospective tenants in accessing home environments that are free of secondhand smoke.
- Receive step-by-step guidance on how to make your facility or apartment building smoke-free and how to provide healthy clean smoke-free homes for your clients.
Please join us, Thursday, October 29, 2009 from 1:00-3:30pm!