Indoor Air Quality Action Planning and Implementing a Local Community Program

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Indoor Air QualityAction Planning and
Implementing a Local Community Program
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For You to Conduct a Successful Outreach
Program, Remember

• YOU CAN CHANGE HUMAN BEHAVIOR!
• It takes the right message
• Delivered to the right people
• At the right time
• It takes persistence

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Prior to Developing an Action Plan ...

• Access the needs of the community
• Who is at most risk?
• What are the best channels to reach them?
• Establish realistic goals
• What is it you are trying to achieve?
• Identify key player partnerships
• Are there others with similar interests?
• Establish a target audience
• Who is most influential?

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Developing a 5-Step Action Plan

• Step 1 - Mission
• The mission is a statement of why you want to
  implement the program
• Step 2 - Goals
• A goal is a broad statement of what is to be
  accomplished within a specific time period
• Step 3 - Objective
• An objective is a narrower and more direct action
  statement coming out of the goals
• Step 4 - Tasks and/or Activities
• The tasks and/or activities are the day-to-day
  actions that accomplish the objectives
• Step 5 - Determining Measurable Outcomes
• Measure and evaluate everything that you can
  quantify

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Action Plan - Example 1

• Secondhand Smoke Community Outreach Program
• Mission
• To reduce the health risks to children from
  exposure to secondhand smoke.
• Goal
• Reduce the number of smoking households in
  which children are exposed to secondhand smoke at
  the rate of one new household each week during
  the next year.
• Objective
• Secure commitment cards from smoking
  households that smoking will not be permitted.

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Secondhand Smoke Community Outreach Program

• Tasks/Activities
• Public information campaign on secondhand smoke
  through newspaper, radio, and television
• Distribute commitment cards at highly visible
  public places, and follow-up with informational
  packets
• Provide secondhand smoke presentations at
  schools, health departments, civic organizations,
  churches, etc.

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Secondhand Smoke Community Outreach Program

• Measurable Outcomes
• Public information campaigns, and how often
• Commitment cards distributed
• Committed non-smoking households
• Telephone inquiries received
• Presentations made, to whom, and total number
  reached

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Action Plan - Example 2

• Asthma Awareness Community Outreach Program
• Mission
• To reduce asthma health risks from indoor air
  pollutants.
• Goal
• To educate one new family affected by asthma each
  month for the next twelve months on how to
  recognize and identify asthma triggers.
• Objective
• To improve indoor air quality in homes to reduce
  asthma episodes.

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Asthma Awareness Community Outreach Program

• Tasks/Activities
• Public information campaign on asthma through
  newspaper, radio and television
• Provide asthma training to children and parents
• Distribute asthma triggers identification card
  to children and parents
• Develop active asthma partnership with medical
  community

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Asthma Awareness Community Outreach Program

• Measurable Outcomes
• Type and frequency of public information
  campaigns
• Presentations to parent/children groups, and
  number of attendees
• Asthma Triggers identification cards
  distributed
• Number of medical professionals and how they are
  involved in asthma partnership
• Telephone inquiries received
• Peer educators trained
• Number of families with asthma impacted by peer
  educators as a result of coalition

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Action Plan - Example 3

• Radon Community Outreach Program
• Mission
• Reduce the lung cancer risk associated with
  indoor radon exposure.
• Goal
• Install radon resistant construction features in
  six new homes built within the next twelve
  months.
• Objective
• Increase the number of radon resistant new homes
  constructed.

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Radon Community Outreach Program

• Tasks/Activities
• RRNC public information campaign through
  newspaper, radio and television
• Provide information packets explaining RRNC at
  health departments, building departments,
  libraries, real estate offices, etc.
• Provide RRNC presentations to homebuilders,
  realtors and new home buyers
• Provide incentives to builders to include RRNC
  methods in new homes constructed
• Place yard signs in front of newly built RRNC
  homes to advertise

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Radon Community Outreach Program

• Measurable Outcomes
• Public information campaigns and how often
• Sites distributing RRNC information, and number
  of information packets distributed
• RRNC presentations made, to whom, and number
  reached
• Number of homes built with RRNC techniques
• Inquiries received as a result of the RRNC
  advertising

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Action Plan - Example 4

• Radon Community Outreach Program
• Mission
• Reduce the lung cancer risk associated with
  indoor radon exposure.
• Goal
• Install four active mitigation systems in
  existing homes with high radon levels within the
  next year
• Objective
• Increase the number of homes mitigated for radon

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Radon Community Outreach Program

• Tasks/Activities
• New Mitigation Systems in Existing Homes (NMSEH)
  public information campaigns
• Provide NMSEH information packets at health
  departments, building departments, libraries,
  real estate offices, etc.
• Provide incentives to families to have their
  homes mitigated for radon

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Radon Community Outreach Program

• Measurable Outcomes
• Number of sites distributing NMSEH information
  packets, and number of packets distributed
• Homes built with NMSEH techniques
• Inquiries received as a result of NMSEH
  information campaigns

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Action Plan - Example 5

• IAQ Community Outreach Program
• Mission
• Reduce IAQ related complaints/health risks
  within the building workplace.
• Goal
• Perform individual IAQ inspection and evaluation
  of four public buildings within the next twelve
  month period
• Objective
• Improve indoor air quality within all public
  buildings

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IAQ Community Outreach Program

• Tasks/Activities
• Provide IAQ presentations to building occupants
  and building maintenance staff
• Identify and appoint committee to identify and
  correct IAQ issues
• Develop active partnerships with IAQ
  professionals
• Distribute IAQ information at all city
  owned/operated buildings

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IAQ Community Outreach Program

• Measurable Outcomes
• IAQ presentations provided, to whom, and number
  reached
• IAQ problems identified
• Number of IAQ professionals and how utilized
• IAQ information distributed
• IAQ inquiries as a result of building IAQ programs

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Action Plan - Example 6

• School Building IAQ Community
• Outreach Program
• Mission
• To reduce health risks from indoor air
  pollutants.
• Goal
• Implement EPA Tools for Schools in four school
  buildings within the next school year session.
• Objective
• To improve school building indoor air quality for
  all students, faculty and staff.

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School Building IAQ Community Outreach Program

• Tasks/Activities
• Provide Tools for Schools training to school
  administrators, faculty, staff, and parent groups
• Identify and appoint Tools implementation
  committee
• Perform school building IAQ inspections, and
  identify improvements
• Distribute IAQ information at all schools

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School Building IAQ Community Outreach Program

• Measurable Outcomes
• Presentations, to whom, and numbers reached
• Number of schools implementing Tools for
  Schools
• IAQ inspections made, and results
• IAQ information distributed
• IAQ inquiries as a result of IAQ program