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Download: Homeless Services Providers Ventilation Toolkit

Watch: Improving indoor air quality in homeless shelters and congregate settings training (March 1, 2023)

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Enroll in the ACHCH BAAQMD Clean Air Center program for portable air cleaners:
  • ​​​​Enroll your site (Alameda County providers ONLY)
  • Review roles and responsibilities for clean air center providers
  • Submit annual clean air center utilization report by January 15th of each year 
Improve Indoor Air Quality in Homeless Shelters and Service Centers​

​Improving indoor air quality in congregate shelter, housing, and service centers is a key strategy to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases that are transmitted through the air.

Adequate ventilation and filtration are important ways to improve indoor air quality. Improving the quality of indoor air with ventilation and filtration decreases the number airborne viruses and other infectious particles that accumulate in the air of our shared spaces, helping to reduce the airborne transmission of COVID-19 and other viruses or germs, such as influenza, colds, and tuberculosis.  This will create a healthier and more protective environment for staff, residents, and visitors.

Improving air quality is just ONE part of creating a healthy environment!

Shelter and congregate providers work on multiple levels to create environments that reduce the risk of transmission of airborne diseases among residents and staff in homeless congregate settings.  Some of the key lessons we have learned during the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to be used now and into the future:
  • Screen for symptoms
  • Immunize
  • Mask up
  • Make space for physical distancing
  • Test regularly
  • Receive treatment
  • Program protocols
  • Improve ventilation

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Air Quality and Environmental Health Resources
  • Request ACHCH On-Site Technical Assistance/Assessment of Alameda County Homeless Shelter or Service Center facility
  • ACHCH Shelter Health COVID-19 guidance
  • State of California Occupational Safety and Health (CAL/OSHA) COVID-19 Prevention Non-Emergency Regulations 
  • CAL/OSHA Aerosol Transmissible Diseases:
    • Fact Sheet
    • Standards
    • Guide

​Below are the Portable Air Cleaners (PACs) distributed by ACHCH as part of the BAAQMD Clean Air Center program.
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