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Healthy Spaces
A website for parents and others caring for children, which increases awareness of children's exposure to potential contaminants in the areas where child grow, learn, and play. Includes reliable, up-to-date information that allows you to make informed decisions about how to create safe and healthy spaces for young children.
http://www.cfc-efc.ca/healthy-spaces
Environment and Health
The Environmental Literacy Council is an independent, non-profit organization that gives teachers and other educators the tools to help students develop environmental literacy: a fundamental understanding of the systems of the world, both living and non-living, along with the analytical skills needed to weigh scientific evidence and policy choices. This website provides resources, publications, and background information on the following environmental topics: Air & Climate, Land, Water, Ecosystems, Energy, Food, and Environment & Society.
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/subcategory.php/170.html
Institute for Children's Environmental Health
The Institute for Children's Environmental Health (ICEH) is a nonprofit educational organization working to ensure a healthy, just and sustainable future for children and the planet. ICEH's primary mission is to foster collaborative initiatives to reduce and ultimately eliminate environmental exposures that can undermine the health of current and future generations. Projects include the Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative, the Collaborative on Health and the Environment - Northwest, and others.
http://www.iceh.org
Institute for Children's Environmental Health
The Institute for Children's Environmental Health (ICEH) is a nonprofit educational organization working to ensure a healthy, just and sustainable future for children and the planet. ICEH's primary mission is to foster collaborative initiatives to reduce and ultimately eliminate environmental exposures that can undermine the health of current and future generations. Projects include the Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative, the Collaborative on Health and the Environment - Northwest, and others.
http://www.iceh.org
Mothers for Clean Air
Non-profit organization concerned with air pollution in the Houston-Galveston Texas area and its effects on children's health. Provides newsletter, events and air quality information.
http://www.mothersforcleanair.org
Children's Environmental Health Information Resources
National Network of Libraries of Medicine project to provide public health professionals with access to information resources.
http://nnlm.gov/partners/children/
University of California Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit
PEHSU is one of several regional federally funded clinical and educational centers. Provides information on programs and services for expert clinical and public health evaluations of children and communities with suspected environmental health problems.
http://www.ucsf.edu/ucpehsu/
Center for Childrens Health and the Environment
CCHE is the nations first academic research and policy center to examine the links between exposure to toxic pollutants and childhood illness. Provides fact sheets, reports, conference and contact information.
http://www.childenvironment.org/
Healthy Schools
Work to help Ontario school boards identify, prevent, and remediate indoor environment problems that could otherwise affect children's health and learning adversely. Provides news, searches, indexes and links.
http://www.healthyschools.com/
Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment
National partnership committed to working collaboratively for a more sustainable and effective children's environmental health movement.
http://www.partnersforchildren.org
ATSDR - Office of Children's Health
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry with specialized information on the toxicology of children. Provides ongoing examination of relevant child health issues like cancer and hazardous waste sites.
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/child/
Children's Health Environmental Coalition
CHEC dedicated to prevention of non-genetic childhood cancer and other environmentally caused childhood illnesses.
http://www.checnet.org/
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