Healthy Schools Network is dedicated to assuring every child and school employee an environmentally safe and healthy school. HSN promotes the development of state and national policies, regulations, and funding for school facilities environments, and has won national recognition. HSN's coalition-building work has included the launching of a state-based network of organizations concerned with environmental health in schools, as well as the national Coalition for Healthier Schools.

OCE is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the public from the harmful effects of air and water pollution. Through a combined strategy of enforcement, education and advocacy, we empower individuals, families and local communities to participate in decisions that impact air and water quality.

Protecting children's health from environmental risks is fundamental to EPA's mission. EPA established the Office of Children's Health Protection (OCHP) in May 1997 to make the protection of children's health a fundamental goal of public health and environmental protection in the United States. OCHP supports and facilitates Agency efforts to protect children's health from environmental threats. Learn more about OCHP by selecting from the topics below.

ATSDR Gives Special Emphasis to Children's Health. ATSDR's Child Health Program emphasizes the ongoing examination of relevant child health issues in all of the agency's activities, and stimulates new projects to benefit children.

Recently, the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) has put its Children's Environmental Health Project online. The project originated with the idea that physicians need access to information about the effects of the environment on children's health. It provides a summary of the medical and scientific information about environmental effects on health.

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.

The Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment is a growing North American coalition with 275 individual and organizational members representing government, academic, medical and community-based organizations committed to building a strong, sustainable and collaborative movement to protect current and future generations from harmful environmental exposures.

The University of California San Francisco Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (UCSF PEHSU) is one of several regional federally funded clinical and educational centers. We provide expert clinical and public health evaluations of children and communities with suspected environmental health problems.

Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN): Upcoming Conferences. List of upcoming conferences related to children's environmental health issues.

CHEC is a national non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public, specifically parents and caregivers, about environmental toxins that affect children's health. Our ultimate goal is to eliminate children's exposure to man-made toxic substances by ensuring everyone's right-to-know what is in their air, food, water and commercial products. We are working to achieve this goal through increased scientific research, government policies which are more protective of children, and educating and mobilizing individuals — like you — around the country.