Healthy Homes Community Educator

Job Description

Job Description

CDLI Overview

Community Development Long Island (CDLI) is the only full-service collection of community development entities that change Long Islanders lives for success in home creation and financial growth. CDLI supports these achievements on the individual and community level by offering innovative solutions and resources to achieve personal and community economic growth.

Position Summary

The Healthy Homes Community Educator is a professional who educates and empowers people with asthma and their families to mitigate allergens and irritants through environmental interventions and self-management strategies. The focus of the role is providing education on reducing asthma triggers in the home and teaching household members how to manage their asthma symptoms, aiming to prevent asthma attacks and improve overall quality of life.

Responsibilities :

• C omplete training in delivering guidelines-based Asthma Self-Management Education and conducting home environmental assessments (at no expense)
• Conduct in-home visits to :

Provide education on asthma, including its causes, symptoms, triggers, and self-management strategies.

Required :

Highly Desired :

This job description is not intended to be all inclusive and the employee will perform other reasonably related duties as assigned.