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Find National and State
Partners and Resources
For
Kids of All Ages
Green Squad –
www.nrdc.org/greensquad
A website co-developed by Natural Resources Defense
Council and Healthy Schools Network for middle-schoolers
to help them investigate the school environment. Find
the environmental problems, compare them to your school,
and use the fact sheets to improve the environment
at your school. There is also a Parent-Teacher Room
and virtual library to help with the investigation.
www.nrdc.org/greensquad/ptr/intro.asp
Or visit www.healthyschools.org/kids
and learn how you can use your school newspaper to
report on environmental conditions.
Kids for Saving Earth
–
www.kidsforsavingearth.org
A website to help students and teachers learn about
toxics that harm children and the environment.
National
Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry - atsdr.cdc.gov
ATSDR has placed special emphasis on children in conducting
its health studies and other activities. The agency
has conducted or funded large studies to assess whether
the infants of mothers who live near hazardous waste
sites are at higher risk for various birth defects
or other adverse health outcomes (e.g., small for
gestational age). Some of these studies found an increased
risk for neural tube defects. Several studies also
showed an increased risk for musculoskeletal and heart
defects. ATSDR is using geographic information systems
(GIS), a spatial analysis approach, to estimate the
number and sociodemographic characteristics of public
and private elementary and secondary schools located
on or near the approximately 1,550 National Priorities
List (NPL) or Superfund hazardous waste sites in the
United States.
American Academy of Pediatrics
- www.aap.org
This medical site covers many child health issues,
as well as providing resources on education, advocacy,
research and publications.
American Federation of Teachers
(AFT) - www.aft.org
This site contains abundant information on school
environments, including fact sheets on indoor air
quality, asbestos, and mold, as well as a "Healthy
Schools" newsletter offering guidelines to parents
and staff about environmental problems in schools,
providing the latest research and school success stories.
American Institute of Biological
Sciences, www.actionbioscience.org/
The site (English and Spanish) provides peer-reviewed
articles by scientists, science educators, and science
students in issues related to the seven bioscience
challenges: environment, biodiversity, genomics, biotechnology,
evolution, new frontiers in science, and bioscience
education. In addition, the web site provides educators
with original lessons and other resources to enhance
bioscience teaching. Up-to-date external links are
provided at the bottom of each article to help the
reader "learn more" about or "get involved"
in the issue.
American Lung Association
- www.lungusa.org
This site contains information on specific child health
topics, such as air quality and asthma. Includes "Open
Airways for Schools", a program aimed at teaching
children and communities about environmental factors
in schools, and how to improve school conditions.
American Public Health Association
- www.apha.org/APHA
brings together researchers, health service providers,
administrators, teachers, and other health workers
in a unique, multidisciplinary environment of professional
exchange, study, and action. See policy on healthier
schools #200010
Beyond Pesticides/Nat’l.
Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides -
www.beyondpesticides.org
Advocacy, information, and resources on a wide range
of pesticide issues, including sample School IPM policies.
Center for Children's Health
and the Environment (CCHE) at Mt. Sinai School of
Medicine, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine,
NY, NY. - www.childenvironment.org
This site has scientific abstracts on child health
topics and links to key federal agencies and national
groups working on environmental health issues.
Center For Disease Control
And Prevention - WWW.CDC.GOV
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting
the health and safety of people - at home and abroad,
providing credible information to enhance health decisions,
and promoting health through strong partnerships.
Look for links to specific diseases, environmental
health, and occupational health.
CDC/Division for Adolescent
and School Health - Healthy
Youth
CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH)
seeks to prevent the most serious health risk behaviors
among children, adolescents and young adults. To accomplish
this mission DASH implements four strategies-identify;
synthesize and apply research; enable constituents;
and evaluate. DASH funds state agencies and national
organizations to develop and administer selected school
health programs.
CDC/National Institutes of
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) - NIOSH
Safety Checklist Program for Schools
Administrators, coordinators, and teachers know that
their schools should comply with Federal or State
Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations....
This Safety Checklist Program can help … bring
schools into compliance.... In one easy-to-read source,
the Safety Checklist Program provides information
needed by schools to maintain safe classrooms, shops,
and labs for teachers and students in career-technical
education. HSN note: NIOSH does not protect children/students,
but may afford some protection for adult employees.
Center for Health, Environment,
and Justice, - www.chej.org
Grassroots organizing on environmental issues.
Children's Environmental Health
Network (CEHN) - www.cehn.org
This site provides much useful material on children's
health including national reports on policy and research
issues, educational programs, publications, and other
links.
Children's Health and Environmental
Coalition (CHEC) - www.checnet.org
A gateway to practical and accurate information for
parents on how to prevent their children from being
exposed to hazards in their homes. Visitors to www.checnet.org
will find Health eHouse, which is a
"virtual house" to tour, a quiz that provides
a personalized assessment of the home environment,
and articles, how to lists, shopping lists, chemical
profiles and more to help parents determine if their
child is at risk and how to keep them from harm.
Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) - www.epa.gov/schools/
or /children
Espanol - www.epa.gov/iaq/espanol
Provides the latest information on children's health
and environmental hazards, including research, publications,
health programs, news items, and links to over 50
other organizations. Go to Children, IAQ, Asthma,
Molds, Radon, or Schools for more detailed information.
Green Schools Initiative -
www.greenschools.net
The Green Schools Initiative works to catalyze and
support “green” actions by kids, teachers,
parents, and policymakers to eliminate toxics, use
sustainable resources, create green spaces and buildings,
serve healthy food, and teach stewardship.
Healthy Kids: The Key to Basics
- www.healthy-kids.info
Provides information designed to promote health and
educational equity for students with asthma and other
chronic health conditions.
Institute for Children’s
Environmental Health – www.partnersforchildren.org
and www.iceh.org - An educational organization working
to ensure a healthy, just and sustainable future for
children and the planet. The primary mission of ICEH
is to foster collaborative initiatives to mitigate
environmental exposures that can undermine the health
of current and future generations.
Institute for Health and Environment
– www.albany.edu/ihe
Promotes interdisciplinary research among faculty
of the University at Albany and other local academic
and research institutions who have interest in the
broad area of environmental science, ecology, environmental
policy, environmental health, environmental law, geographic
information systems, hazardous waste management, occupational
health, risk assessment, management and communication,
urban environmental health and the social and psychological
aspects of environmental pollution in regard to human
behavior.
National Clearinghouse for
Educational Facilities - www.edfacilities.org
and click on "healthy school environments"
for the most current resources. A service sponsored
by the US Department of Education that provides information
on planning, designing, funding, and maintaining schools.
National Education Association
(NEA) - www.nea.org
This site provides the latest information on issues
pertaining to public education and children, from
classroom sizes to environmental conditions, focusing
on issues such as how the conditions of schools affect
teaching and learning. Ask your state NEA office about
NEA's grassroots Healthy Schools Caucus.
National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) -
www.niehs.nih.gov
The federal NIEHS, part of the National Institutes
of Health, achieves its mission through multidisciplinary
biomedical research programs, prevention and intervention
efforts, and communication strategies that encompass
training, education, technology transfer, and community
outreach. Provides fact sheets and pamphlets on environmental
hazards, such as lead and air quality, and illnesses,
such as asthma, facing children in schools. Includes
scientific research and studies on children's health,
as well as the latest news and events.
National PTA's Environmental
Action and Awareness Program - www.pta.org/programs
Collection of articles on issues, such as lead, radon,
indoor air quality, providing information and resources
on child health issues, environmental hazards, and
a newsletter on environmental awareness.
Natural Resources Defense
Council (NRDC) - www.nrdc.org/NRDC
uses law, science, and the support of members nationwide
to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and
to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living
things, safeguarding the Earth: its people, its plants
and animals and the natural systems on which all life
depends.
Ninth Report
on Carcinogens, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services – ehis.niehs.nih.gov/roc/toc9.html
Lists compounds, chemicals, and substances known or
suspected to be human carcinogens and gives properties,
uses, and regulations for each agent.
Pediatric Environmental Health
Specialty Units -
www.aoec.org/PEHSU.htm
Agency for Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
are supporting a network of units linked through the
American Occupational and Environmental Clinics to
provide education and consultation for health professionals,
public health professionals and others about the topic
of children's environmental health. Services are often
initiated regionally or can be coordinated across
the network. Requests can be directed to local PEHSUs
or to the AOEC office.
Pesticide Database of the
Pesticide Action Network– www.pesticideinfo.org
Includes current toxicity and regulatory information
for about 5,400 pesticide active ingredients and their
transformation products.
Physicians for Social Responsibility
- www.psr.org
Includes "Healthy Children - Toxic Environments"
report. Provides abundant information and resources
on school environments and its effects on children's
health, emphasizing children's vulnerability to environmental
threats, results from exposures, and roles of other
agencies and organizations.
US Department of Education,
Office of Civil Rights -
www.ed.gov/ocr
Provides information on civil and educational rights
of children and adults with disabilities, which can
include health impairments such as Asthma, Diabetes,
Epilepsy, Chemical Sensitivities, and other disorders.
State-Based Healthy Schools Advocates
Connecticut
Foundation for Environmentally Safe Schools
pollutionfreeschools.org
In July 2002, a group of concerned citizens,
parents, educators environmentalists and health
professionals from across Connecticut formed a grassroots
organization called "The Canary Committee".
They referred to themselves as the "The Canary
Committee" because their core members had suffered
from the debilitating health effects caused by sick
schools. Among their ranks were parents of sick
children whose illness had been directly linked
to environmental conditions in their schools. The
Canary Committee was founded on the belief that
far too often the discovery and remediation of indoor
pollution was not occurring until after the health
of school occupants was already harmed.
Illinois Healthy
Schools Campaign www.healthyschoolscampaign.org
The Illinois Healthy Schools Campaign is a not-for
profit organization with over 90 endorsing organizations
whose mission is to advocate for policies and model
programs that allow students and staff members to
learn and work in a healthy school environment.
Programs in food quality, green cleaning, air quality,
and more.
Illinois Healthy
Schools/Healthy You Conference, April 2002 Audio
Tape - www.uic.edu/sph/glakes/ce/seminars/healthy_schools/
Learn about hazards: how parents, teachers and inspectors
address problems in their schools, how industrial
hygienists approach problem solving and how a holistic
approach to exposures can start a process of improvement.
The conference was sponsored by the American Federation
of Teachers, the Chicago Teachers Union, the Illinois
Healthy Schools Campaign, Healthy Schools Network,
US EPA, Illinois PTA, Chicago Asthma Consortium,
Illinois Department of Labor and On Site Consultation
Program, Chicago Department of Public Health and
the University of Illinois at Chicago School of
Public Health and many others. For more information
please contact jzanoni@uic.edu.
The Massachusetts
Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health- and
the Massachusetts HEALTHY SCHOOLS NETWORK c/o
www.masscosh.org-
Serving eastern and central Massachusetts and dedicated
to improving health and safety conditions in the
workplace through technical assistance, training
and education.
New Hampshire
Partnership for High Performance Schools (NHPHPS)
-- Environment. Health. Economics. www.nhphps.org/
whose mission is to maximize the number of high
performance schools built in New Hampshire over
the next decade and is inspired by the success of
other states and communities; provides direct support
to communities involved in planning, renovating,
expanding or upgrading school facilities.
New Jersey
Work Environment Council/Healthy Schools Program
www.njwec.org/education%20and%20training.html#Healthy
Schools Program
WEC is one of the few non-governmental organizations
in New Jersey addressing health and safety hazards
of schools, and the only organization working with
school employees to prevent hazards associated with
renovation and construction work. Poor indoor air
quality, asbestos, dust and pests are some of the
hazards that can harm the health of school occupants.
New York City
and State - see below
Oregon Healthy
Schools Roundtable (Report):
www.iceh.org/pdfs/HSI/OregonRoundtable.pdf
Oregon Environmental
Council at www.orcouncil.org:
www.orcouncil.org/Partnerships/Health/Healthy%20Schools.htm
Washington
State Healthy Schools Roundtable (Report):
www.iceh.org/pdfs/HSI/HSTFFinalReport.pdf
New York State and City Partners and Resources
Advocates for Children of
New York, Inc. - www.advocatesforchildren.org
& www.Insideschools.org
a supplementary website designed for New York City
parents and others interested in public schools; profiles
on schools, letter writing tools.
Civil Service Employees Association
- www.csealocal1000.org
Workers who join together for solidarity and share
a common goal; to negotiate with employers from a
position of strength. This site provides career resources,
member benefits, contract administration, legislative
up-dates and health and safety advocacy.
Environmental Advocates -
www.envadvocates.org
Provides important information on current legislative
priorities and environmental bills, including a monthly
newsletter covering government initiatives, campaigns,
environmental reports, and health topics, such as
pesticide use in NYS.
National Education Association
of New York- www.neany.org
This site lists key information about NEA/NY,
including member services, legislative issues, resource
links, and officers. NEA/NY is a state affiliate of
the National Education Association.
New York City Department of
Design and Construction, www.nyc.gov/html/ddc/html/highperf.html
High Performance/Green Building Guidelines
New York Committee for Occupational
Safety and Health (NYCOSH) - www.nycosh.org
Focuses on the public's right for a safe and healthy
workplace, providing material on asbestos, indoor
air pollution, and potential illnesses. Includes a
resource center, and a technical assistance hotline
to address questions.
New York State
Department of Environmental Conservation -
www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dshm/pesticid/neighbor.htm
New York State has adopted a statewide schools and
neighbor prior notification of pesticide use, indoors
and out of doors for public and private schools, and
outdoors for residential neighbors.
New York State Department
of Health - www.health.state.ny.us
New York State United Teachers
- www.nysut.org/
Dedicated to improving not only working conditions,
but also professions; united in a common commitment
to improve the quality of education and healthcare
for the people of New York. This site provides current
education legislation, effective teaching programs,
nurse and health professional news, and health and
safety research center.
West Harlem Environmental
Action – www.weact.org
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education, advocacy and programs to improve environmental
protection, safeguard public health and secure environmental
justice in communities of color.
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