How HHR Can Help

Home Safe Home Program

The Home Safe Home Program works with families to help identify and prevent possible injuries to children in the home. The Home Safe Home Program is dedicated to providing families with the knowledge and tools to eliminate potential hazards to children in the home. For families with children under the age of six years old, Healthy Home Resources provides a Family Services Specialist who will help parents and caretakers understand child safety and work to identify possible hazards to young children. The Family Services Specialist provides the family with necessary safety devices including safety gates, smoke alarms, carbon monoxide detectors, and cabinet locks.

As a free injury prevention program for families with children six and under. Home Safe Home uses proven methods to reduce accidental injuries in the home by educating and doing home improvements.

For more information, or to see if you qualify for the Home Safe Home Program, call 412.431.4449, or Contact Us.

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Keep It Clean Program

Healthy Home Resources Keep It Clean Program utilizes a partnership with the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP) to teach easy yet effective cleaning instructions to the homes of low income families in Allegheny County. Through the Keep It Clean Program Healthy Home Resources partners with qualified families to assist them in achieving the HACP standards for a clean and livable home.

Through self and family surveys the trained staff will determine the cleaning challenges of each particular family and work with all members to create individualized cleaning plans; setting goals, helping motivate, and discussing commitment.

In a continuing effort to reduce and eliminate indoor environmental hazards the Healthy Home Resources staff with provide a family with several cleaning tools and supplies free of charge; including rubber gloves, sponges, micro-fiber cloths, trash bags, broom, dust pan, gallon bucket, mop, toilet brush, plunger, and more. In addition Healthy Home Resources will provide the families with an education workbook and include tips on how to use everyday household items (i.e. vinegar, baking soda, lemon juice) to effectively clean their household with the harsh chemicals that are often an asthma trigger.

If you would like more information on this program, or are interested in finding out if you and your family qualify, please call 412.431.4449, or Contact Us.

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Community Outreach

Healthy Home Resources delivers the healthy home living message to children in day care throughout Allegheny County. Providing quality information at a child’s level, through teacher curriculum and other educational resources, children are encouraged to learn the importance of healthy living practices. Healthy Home Resources strives be a part of every community in the Greater Pittsburgh area through attendance at special community events.

For more information, or to see if Healthy Home Resources will be stopping at a neighborhood near yours, please call 412.431.4449, or Contact Us.

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