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One Touch : Creating Healthy and Energy Efficient Housing

One Touch : Creating Healthy and Energy Efficient Housing. Ellen Tohn Tohn Environmental Strategies 2014. The Need. Home visiting programs for energy, health, and housing repairs have limited scope while family needs are broad .

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One Touch : Creating Healthy and Energy Efficient Housing

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  1. One Touch: Creating Healthy and Energy Efficient Housing Ellen TohnTohn Environmental Strategies 2014

  2. The Need • Home visiting programs for energy, health, and housing repairs have limited scope while family needs are broad. • Opportunities to connect families to added services aremissed. • Opportunities to reduce program costs (e.g., intake, wasted visits)

  3. One Touch Solution • Creates effective e-referrals • Provides added health services to families to reduce health care expenses and improve health outcomes • Reduces energy use, addressing climate change and lowering family energy bills • Develops public private partnerships & collaboration to fill local gaps in service • Improves home visitor capabilities

  4. Added Benefit for HUD Funds • New HUD General NOFA provides extra points for: • Collaboration among health, housing and energy • Use of common assessment and referral procedures • Bringing multiple funding streams to assist clients • Engaging health care payers/providers • One Touch helps you structure programs to achieve these HUD goals

  5. One Touch Sites • Omaha NE • Greensboro NC • Fitchburg MA • Minneapolis MN • Vermont • New Hampshire • Burlington VT • • • • • •

  6. Families “Touched” Each Year

  7. Health Benefits of Energy “Touches” • Healthier babies - 20% less likely to be underweight for age or length • Reduced hospital stays in colder months - 30% less likely to require admission after visiting emergency room. Source: Frank et al, Heat or Eat, Pediatrics, 2006

  8. Health Benefits of Energy “Touches” • Improved asthma outcomes if weatherization added to community health worker visits (Bryesse, 2013) • Weatherization yielded fewer sinus infections, reduced asthma medication use (Wilson, 2013)

  9. Who Should Be Involved?

  10. Common Assessment Tool

  11. Making E-Referrals

  12. Automated E-Referrals

  13. Manchester, NH Referrals • 95 units –Initial Pilot • 9 partnering agencies • 70% of homes needed at least one referral • 127 referrals. Most common : lead, energy, smoking cessation, social services, housing repairs • Adds 15 minutes to home visit • Referrals initially tracked on Google.docs, moved to state supported system

  14. Omaha Referrals • One Touch done in > 1700 homes

  15. Referral Partners Omaha

  16. Summary Data

  17. Partners Have Access to Data

  18. Typical Timeline

  19. NH Referral Commitments Housing Health WX • MOU among Health, Housing, and Weatherization • Lead to track referrals statewide • MCH home visits complete One Touch assessments & e-referrals

  20. Omaha Benefits • Secured significant Kresge Healthy Homes Grant, • Assisting City in maintaining Weatherization presence • Connections to Rebuilding and Habitat • Program is institutionalized • Will position them for HUD

  21. Fitchburg MA Benefits • Closer collaboration among weatherization, city rehab, and lead • Local CDC developed green and healthy rehab specs • Considering linking new tablet for code enforcement with One Touch software

  22. Moving Forward Spread The Word.... One Touch can happen without significant new funding Contact: Ellen Tohn, Tohn Environmental Strategies 508-358-7770; etohn@tohnenvironmental.com

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