BROOKINGS – South Dakota State University School of Health and Consumer Sciences assistant professor Axton Betz-Hamilton and Sara Croymans, an Extension educator from the University of Minnesota Extension, will host a series of webinars addressing enhancing safety in the home, pest prevention and compulsive hoarding.

The webinars will equip participants with knowledge on connections between health, well-being and the home environment, the impact of compulsive hoarding and resources to address it.

Participants will receive a kit upon registering for each webinar that will include helpful tools and resources specific to each webinar.

The webinar schedule includes:

• June 1, noon-1 p.m. CDT - Home Sweet Home: Enhancing Safety: Participants will learn to identify and take action to address safety hazards in the home environment, including falls, drowning, fire, poisoning, suffocation, choking and guns.

To register, visit https://z.umn.edu/HomeSafety.

• June 15, noon-1 p.m. CDT - Home Sweet Home: Preventing Pests: Participants will learn about pests in the home and identify pest management strategies.

To register, visit https://z.umn.edu/HomePests.

• June 29, noon-1 p.m. CDT – Addressing Hoarding: Participants will learn about compulsive hoarding, including impacts on one’s financial, emotional and physical well-being.

To register, visit https://umn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0tf--tqzgiGtDhgoSEY876yqNLq_ri1_5O.

This webinar is supported by grant from the National Healthy Homes Partnership and is available to all South Dakota and Minnesota residents.

For more information, contact Betz-Hamilton at Axton.BetzHamilton@sdstate.edu.