REALTORS® could benefit from an upcoming Essentials for Healthy Homes Practitioners course. The training will help you understand the connection between health and housing and how to take a holistic approach to identify and resolve problems that threaten the health and well-being of residents.

The two-day course brings together professionals with a variety of perspectives and experiences in a series of exercises. The training identifies root causes of health problems in a home and links them to seven principles of healthy housing: keep it dry; keep it clean; keep it pest-free; keep it ventilated; keep it safe; avoid contaminants; and maintain the house.

Cost of this two-day course is $75 and includes the course manual, continental breakfast and lunch on both days, and refreshments. The course will be held Tuesday, Sept. 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Wednesday, Sept. 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., both days at the KCMO Health Department at 2400 Troost.

Click here for the registration form. For more information, contact Erica Forrest, Children's Mercy Hospitals Environmental Health Program, at 816-983-6806 or eforrest@cmh.edu.