Title 5, Air Quality, and Illicit Narcotics

Member Update

TOTALLY TITLE 5 CONFERENCE

WMPHA Executive Committee members have been hard at work planning a great day of speakers on Tuesday, October 29 at the Log Cabin in Holyoke for this year's Totally Title 5 Conference!

Expert speakers will cover a variety of wastewater related topics, and there will be vendors, food, and many of your colleagues and neighbors!

See below for the agenda, click here for a PDF of the flyer and register BY OCTOBER 22 by clicking here: https://tinyurl.com/49wenppn

Contact Bri Dupras at bdupras@frcog.org with questions.

We hope to see you there!

The WMPHA Executive Committee

Got a DEP Air Sensor Grant?

This workshop is for you!

Join WMPHA, the Public Health Institute of Western Mass and the Hitchcock Center for the Environment to learn more about how to use the Purple air sensors awarded to local health departments in Western Mass. The Healthy Air Network is a map of air quality in Western and Central Massachusetts and a source for information on the risks of poor air quality.

Through a new EPA grant, the Network is working to support local health departments in learning from the air quality data and communicating about risks to residents. The Network is also collaborating with Yale University on air quality research.

If you would like your newly-received DEP air sensors to join those on the map, they need to get calibrated at Yale University BEFORE they are installed. Read this important memo for more information, and this information about how to install the sensors, and join us at the workshop to learn more!

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Congratulations, Inspectors!

Congratulations to Jason O'Brien in Orange and Kristen Hargrave-Amodio and Donna Bowman in Northampton for completing their Tier 3 food inspections and becoming some of the first local public health employees in the state to complete all 3 tiers of the LPHIT Food Program!!

Illicit Narcotics Conference

for Public Health and Public Safety

On Friday, November 15th, 2024 8am - 4pm at Gillette Stadium, the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, Department of Fire Services and Municipal Police Training Committee are hosting an event called, where experts will provide guidance on current threats including fentanyl and xylazine.

This event is free and available to Public Health and Public Safety Partners. Please consider attending and help spread the word.

Link to register for the event: Deadly White Powder Symposium