Volume X June 2013 Radon in Georgia Radon in Georgia Radon in Georgia Georgia Radon Education Program (GREP) Newsletter and Outreach Report April 1, 2013 to June 30, 2013 GREP is funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the Georgia Department of Community Affairs Office of Planning and Environmental Management Medical Center of Central Georgia Radon Program Adriane Wood, DCA, coordinated an outreach program for nurses at the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon. Medical profession- als are a top priority when targeting audiences for radon education. Each nurse reached will have the opportunity to share the radon mes- sage with thousands of patients during her career life. Radon Educator Becky Chenhall presented a program to approximately 18 nurses during a Lunch & Learn format program. Participants asked many questions and most were surprised to learn radon is the first lead- ing cause of lung cancer among non-smokers. All were given compli- mentary radon test kits. One nurse shared a story of a patient, only 5 years old, diagnosed with lung caner! Becky was shocked to learn it was a 5 year old boy and provided a radon test kit for the boy’s par- ents. We welcome Morgan Barnett, a new Radon Educator, to the program. After completing her undergraduate degree from the University of Florida, she is a recent graduate of the University of Georgia Master of Public Health program with a specialty in Health Promotion & Behavior. When asked about why she has chosen this field of work, Morgan said, “Working with the ra- don program is a great step in my public health career because I have always been interested in examining community health. With more people in the United States dying from lung cancer than any other cancer, and radon being the second leading cause of lung cancer, I feel passionate about getting the word out to prevent it. Even though the radon program has been around for many years, we still have plenty of work to do to educate the public and increase the number of people who test their homes.” RADON 101 FOR NURSES WHEN May 14, 2013 Noon-1 pm Light lunch included WHERE WT3 FEATURING · Becky Chenhall, UGA, Radon Educator TOPICS COVERED: RADON & LUNG CANCER WHERE RADON IS FOUND HOW TO TEST, HOW TO FIX RSVP required for lunch reservation: 633-8545 Morgan Barnett Joins the Radon Team
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Volume X June 2013
R a d on i n Ge or g i aR a d on i n Ge or g i aR a d on i n Ge or g i a Georg i a Radon Educa t i on Prog r am (GREP)
N e w s l e t t e r a n d O u t r e a c h R e p o r t A p r i l 1 , 2 0 1 3 t o Ju n e 3 0 , 2 0 1 3
GREP is funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the Georgia Department of Community Affairs Office of Planning and Environmental Management
Medical Center of Central Georgia Radon Program
Adriane Wood, DCA, coordinated an outreach program for nurses at the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon. Medical profession-als are a top priority when targeting audiences for radon education. Each nurse reached will have the opportunity to share the radon mes-sage with thousands of patients during her career life. Radon Educator Becky Chenhall presented a program to approximately 18 nurses during a Lunch & Learn format program. Participants asked many questions and most were surprised to learn radon is the first lead-ing cause of lung cancer among non-smokers. All were given compli-mentary radon test kits. One nurse shared a story of a patient, only 5 years old, diagnosed with lung caner! Becky was shocked to learn it was a 5 year old boy and provided a radon test kit for the boy’s par-ents.
We welcome Morgan Barnett, a new Radon Educator, to the program. After completing her undergraduate degree from the University of Florida, she is a recent graduate of the University of Georgia Master of Public Health program with a specialty in Health Promotion & Behavior. When asked about why she has chosen this field of work, Morgan said, “Working with the ra-don program is a great step in my public health career because I have always been interested in examining community health. With more people in the United States dying from lung cancer than any other cancer, and radon being the second leading cause of lung cancer, I feel passionate about getting the word out to prevent it. Even though the radon program has been around for many years, we still have plenty of work to do to educate the public and increase the number of people who test their homes.”
RADON 101 FOR NURSES WHEN May 14, 2013 Noon-1 pm Light lunch included
WHERE WT3
FEATURING · Becky Chenhall, UGA, Radon Educator
TOPICS COVERED:
RADON & LUNG CANCER
WHERE RADON IS FOUND
HOW TO TEST, HOW TO FIX
RSVP required for lunch reservation: 633-8545
Morgan Barnett Joins the Radon Team
Volume X 2 June 2013
Georgia Radon Educators At WorkGeorgia Radon Educators At WorkGeorgia Radon Educators At Work
Youth Middle School Science Classes Learn Health Effects of Radon
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren in Clarke County
Approximately 400 students and teachers were reached with the radon message at Youth Middle School in Loganville. Educator, Becky Chenhall, presented 8 classes to 6th grade science classes. She began each class with EPA’s green socks Public Service Announcement (PSA) and the radon dog PSA from the Asheville Region 4 conference to get the students’ attention. Chenhall used a radon PowerPoint and talked about where radon originates, the health effects, test-ing for radon and fixing a home. Student volunteers demonstrated how to use a radon test kit. The radon millionaire game was used at the end of class for fun and to test the radon knowledge. Stu-dents were given a choice of radon backpacks, radon dawgbones, rulers or pens with pads. Evalu-ations were used in two representative classes. All the students were interested in radon and eager to learn to go home and share the information with family. The students wanted to test their homes for radon.
Becky Chenhall and Morgan Barnett attended a Clarke County Grandparents Raising Grand-children meeting at Athens Community Coun-cil of Aging. Approximately 17 adults and 5 children attended the lunch-and-learn, most of them not having had any previous information given to them about radon or how to test in the home. This was a very informative session, and the grandparents seemed concerned about the problem and interested in doing the test in their homes.
After contacting certified mitigators operating in Georgia, those who responded to an informal survey provided us with estimates of the number of mitigations done in the last year. Between May 2012 and June 2013, approximately 1,187 mitigations were done throughout the state. Keep up the great work!
Volume X 3 June 2013
R a d on O u t r e a c hR a d on O u t r e a c hR a d on O u t r e a c h
Program Contacts & Media Impressions April through June 2013
Volume X June 2013
PROGRAM CONTACTS Hall DeKalb Gwinnett Elbert Walton Southface Other1 Totals
Distribution 29,300 249 16,746 9,215 1,636,880 903,048 6,054 2,601,492
Local Web Hits5 0 1,044 20,600 0 12,000 0 0 33,644
State Web Hits6 50,370 51,296 0 101,666
TOTAL IMPRESSIONS 31,231,474 19,637,367 75,343,977 4,209,169 35,281,403 2,284,344 8,837,554 176,825,288 1Other includes radon education/results of former radon educators and county FACS/4-H Agents.
2Reported quarterly by Southface only.
3Certified GA mitigators report their mitigations & RRNCs annually in the J-S quarter in the "other" column.
4Began tracking Jan. 1, 2010
5UGA Radon Program web hits are shared equally among the 5 radon educators
Volume X 5 June 2013
RADON RESOURCES & CONTACTS
Georgia Indoor Radon Grant Administration
Jim Frederick, Office Director [email protected] Georgia Department of Community Affairs– Office of Planning and Environmental Management
60 Executive Park South NE, Atlanta, GA 30329 404-679-3105
Adriane Wood, Grant Coordinator [email protected] Georgia Department of Community Affairs—Office of Planning and Environmental Management
479 Cherry Street, Macon, GA. 31201 478-319-0433
Radon Hotline Numbers
National Hotlines
Kansas State University / EPA 1-800-SOS-RADON (1-800-767-7236) 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday – Friday
National Hispanic Indoor Air Quality 1-800-725-8312 The Radon Fix It Line: (National Safety Program) 1-800-644-6999 Get live help for your radon questions 1-800-55RADON (557-2366)* Radon Fix-It Hotline—General information on reducing radon levels 1-800-644-6999* Safe Drinking Water Hotline 1-800-426-4791
* Operated by Kansas State University in partnership with EPA
The Georgia Radon Education Program is funded by the U.S. Environmental Pro-tection Agency through the Georgia Department of Community Affairs Office of Planning and Environmental Management, in partnership with the University of
Georgia College of Family & Consumer Sciences Cooperative Extension.