Healthy Housing Solutions (Solutions) offers expert program integration and project management services to its clients, to include the following contract and project assignments:
Project direction and team management
Our approach to program and project management consists of creating a logical workflow analysis of complex tasks to form work breakdown structures to manage teams and work assignments.
Experience: When the Grace Hill Neighborhood Health Centers (Grace Hill) of St. Louis, Missouri received lead hazard control grant funding from HUD, it turned to Solutions for technical guidance and management support. Solutions assisted Grace Hill with a multifaceted program integration effort. The firm created model documents to implement Grace Hill’s HUD grant and outlined a risk management plan, which contained guidance regarding environmental insurance so that lead liability exposures could be addressed. As part of this effort, Solutions also helped to identify a program construction strategy for lead hazard reduction and a means by which costs could be estimated for lead hazard reduction in housing units.
Program oversight
An important function of the program and project management process is program oversight, including performing assessments and testing to determine if a program is functioning properly, and correcting any problems that might exist.
Experience: As part of its subcontract with Battelle Memorial Institute for an EPA project, Solutions field-tested a cleaning protocol as a surrogate for lead dust clearance sampling during housing rehabilitation, coordinated with the City of Baltimore’s Lead Abatement Program and a local nonprofit housing developer to secure testing sites, and participated in performing the protocol in conjunction with its own subcontractor, a certified lead inspection firm. As per Battelle’s work assignment, Solutions recorded and reported on the results of the field-testing to help determine if the protocol was an effective alternate for a lead dust contamination measurement.
Analysis of stakeholder feedback and implementation of strategic initiatives
True program oversight involves not only examination of hard program data, but also review of stakeholder feedback.
Experience: Solutions has solicited this type of information from key audience groups for a number of organizations, including the Georgia Department of Human Resources, Division of Public Health, the City of Detroit, and the Cities of Flint, Hamtramck and Highland Park, Michigan. Solutions is currently managing a project for HUD to provide quality control (QC) allergen dust samples to HUD’s Healthy Homes Initiative grantees. These samples will be submitted by the grantees to their allergen laboratories as blind proficiency samples along with their field collected samples. We are determining the need for QC dust samples from the grantees and then arranging for their production and distribution by an analytical laboratory. Five different allergen sample types are being prepared. Finally, the grantees will report the results of their laboratories’ analytical results of the QC samples to Solutions on a monthly basis. We will then summarize these results for HUD on a quarterly basis.