At Lutheran Family Services (LFS), our Healthy Housing programs focus on one simple truth: Where you live impacts how you live.
We make healthier families by improving the home through testing, education, repairs/intervention, collaboration and support for families who need it most. Healthy Housing helps families eliminate health and safety hazards in their homes. We provide assessments, education, and home improvements that reduce asthma triggers, improve indoor air quality, and create safer living environments.
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What Healthy Housing Does For Qualified Residents
Lutheran Family Services Healthy Housing (HH) reduces the economic and physical impact of substandard housing on families by holistically improving the health and safety of the homes in our community.
Reducing Healthcare Costs
Our work reduces healthcare costs associated with in-home hazards such as radon, mold and asthma triggers. Our work disrupts home-related health issues that can undermine a family’s ability to work, learn, and thrive.
Reducing Asthma Occurrence
Our programs reduce asthma-related emergency department visits, rescue inhaler usage, and increase positive health behaviors such as smoking cessation and furnace filter replacement frequency. We have the solutions for the disproportionate impacts of pediatric asthma and other health issues stemming from poor housing conditions in communities of historic disinvestment. Healthy homes decrease asthma attacks by 31%, hospitalizations by 11%, and emergency room visits by 16%.
Addressing Hazards In The Home
While healthcare providers offer clinical solutions for health issues after diagnosis, we provide the structural solutions by addressing hazards within the home that prevent health issues from occurring in the first place.
We provide education, supplies, and construction upgrades to reduce environmental hazards in the home and improve the health of children and families.
Disrupt the cycle of poverty by ensuring a family’s housing conditions do not prevent them from going to school, going to work, or engaging with their community.
Reduce the economic and physical impact stemming from poor housing conditions for both families and healthcare systems.
Healthy Housing Provides These Services To Qualified Residents
Healthy Home Assessments
Our Healthy Housing 200-point inspection assesses the home for potential hazards and risks, such as lead, mold, pests, asthma triggers, and poor air quality and provides home rehab to correct hazards.
Radon Testing and Mitigation
Healthy Housing offers radon testing and mitigation services to reduce the risk of lung cancer caused by high radon levels. Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer with 63% of Nebraska homes testing above the EPA’s action level.
Mold and Pest Remediation
Healthy Housing offers effective mold remediation services to address mold growth in homes, which can pose health risks to residents. Mold can cause many irritations, breathing issues and other serious health risks.
Education and Supplies
We also provide education for families on the 8 Healthy Housing Home Principles, maintaining optimal air quality and supplying free home maintenance products.
Donate
Your donation today can make a difference in the lives of families all over Nebraska. Here are some ways in which your money helps us:
$250
Cost of our Healthy Home Assessment that assesses the health risk of families homes.
$500
Cost of maintaining our inspectors various licenses active and current so that we can continue providing our services to families.
$3400
Average amount spent on our construction interventions provided to families who qualify. This ranges from simple gutter replacements to the installation of a radon mitigation system.
