Responsibility 1

Assess Individual and Community Needs for Health Education

Competency B: Collect health-related data
Sub-competency 1 - Use appropriate data-gathering instruments

The American Lung Association is a strong advocate for smoke-free homes.  One of our main focuses was to help landlords and property managers rent out smoke-free units to their tenants.  Although there are a number of rental units that have gone smoke-free already, there are still many more that have not.  Whether this is because property managers aren't aware of the dangers, or because they don't want to, either way we contacted them about this issue.  Creating a calling list from scratch is a time-consuming task especially when you don't know much about the area.  Making phone calls to various HRA's and housing authorities were a great way to obtain a list of property managers.  After obtaining this list of names, I went to whitepages.com to do a reverse look-up to get phone numbers.  From there, I made calls to various landlords in the appropriate regions to invite them to an informational meeting/lunch session.  Here we had an attorney join us to help share information on policies regarding smoking, and to help answer any questions.