Community Education
CCCEH is dedicated to translating the Center’s research findings into useable health information for communities that are disproportionately affected by environmental pollutants. In partnership with WE ACT for Environmental Justice, we launched the Healthy Home Healthy Child community education campaign in 2000 to raise the overall environmental health awareness of residents in Washington Heights, Harlem, and the South Bronx in New York City. The campaign provides parents with practical tips for reducing harmful exposures and protect their children’s health, informs physicians and their patients about the health effects of environmental hazards, and conducts educational workshops for community leaders advocating for better air quality and other environmental improvements that will elevate the health status of these neighborhoods.
For Earth Day 2008, CCCEH published a list of tips, “Easy Ways to ‘Go Green’ and Keep Your Family and Community Safe, Clean and Healthy!”
Our Healthy Home, Healthy Child newsletter is written for families who are participating in our ongoing studies. Each issue focuses on a major environmental pollutant and provides information on the Center’s latest research findings, tips for avoiding or lowering harmful exposures, ways to get involved in local community efforts to improve environmental health, and resources for additional information.
Healthy Home, Healthy Child: Protecting Your Children from Environmental Pollutants—What You Can Do
- Pesticides: Spring 2007 (English / Spanish)
- Mercury: Winter 2007 (English / Spanish)
- Air Pollution: Spring 2005 (English / Spanish)
- Pesticides, Secondhand Smoke, Air Pollution: Summer 2004
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