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Keeping Families Safe and Healthy
This book, written by refugee Ngo Hna, provides the information you need to maintain a safe and healthy home for yourself and your family. When Ngo immigrated to the United States, she saw that many new Americans face difficulties when first arriving. One of the biggest adjustments is getting used to life in a new home.
For example, in many parts of the world, people don’t cook with electric or gas stoves. Many new Americans have little experience cleaning these devices and might accidentally break them. Many new residents are also unfamiliar with gas or electric heat, smoke alarms, or carbon monoxide detectors.
This book will help you learn about your new home so you can avoid simple mistakes that might cause big problems. You can read the entire book or just look at the topics that interest you. While it will help all new residents and first time renters, the book is designed specifically for new immigrants and refugees. Landlords, property managers, and support organizations may also find it useful to better understand some of the challenges refugees and immigrants face when arriving in America.
(Karen)
To engage even the youngest members of our families with the Healthy Home content, we have a coloring book! It features the same wonderful illustrations as the main Healthy Home book.
In the Healthy Home kids’ book, young immigrant Fatima shares her daily routine. She is a great role model for her age, teaching readers about safety, cleaning, school, friends, and helping your parents.
Healthy Choices
Eating Local Fish
Eating some fish from Rochester’s waterways provides a healthy and free source of vitamins, minerals and fats. Not all fish are safe to eat, especially for pregnant women and children, because of high concentrations of pollutants that harm babies and children. Pregnant women, young women under 50 years old and children under 15 years old should never eat carp and limit their local fish meals to one serving per month. Men may safely eat one to four local fish meals per month. Families may use the information below to identify what types of fish are healthy and safe to eat one to four times per month.
Guidance for men over 14 years old and women over 49 years old
Guidance for boys under 15 years old and girls & women under 50 years old
Share Information With Families and Friends
New York State Department of Health Guidance (14 languages)
