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.

The Institute for Children's Environmental Health (ICEH) is a nonprofit educational organization working to ensure a healthy, just and sustainable future for ALL children. 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 - Washington and others.

Awareness of learning and behavioral disorders is reaching more and more people, either first hand or through someone we know. Can toxics in our air, water or food combine with other factors to keep our children from reaching their full human potential?

The mission of the Center for Children's Health and the Environment (CCHE) of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is to protect children against environmental threats to health. Our Center is leading the effort nationally to protect children against environmental toxins. Our research is examining the health hazards of pesticides, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and air pollutants. We are developing strategies to prevent learning disabilities, asthma, obesity and cancer.