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Education Project

The Network's Education Project works with health care professionals in the fields of medicine, nursing and public health. As more is learned about children's environmental exposures, the public increasingly looks towards the health care community for expertise and leadership.

The project's goals are to:

• strengthen the ability of health care professionals to address pediatric environmental health issues in their teaching and practice
• advance the role of health care professionals as educators, investigators, and advocates of safe environments for children

Recent News

NEW Health Provider Engagement:  

In August 2006 with the support of the Environ Foundation, CEHN launched a new effort to support increased involvement of health professionals in governmental decision-making that is informed by scientific principles, public engagement, and knowledge about children's health threats.   This project will advance CEHN’s long term efforts to increase the capacity of vulnerable communities and the environmental health movement as a whole to responding to threats to the health and environment of children and to improve children’s health through long term engagement in policies and programs.

NEW Atlanta Childcare Education:  

CEHN is developing environmental health training for child care providers in Atlanta, Georgia 

Education Project Activities

 

Childcare Education Project:  

In  May 2006 CEHN completed environmental health training for child care providers in Contra Costa and Alameda Counties, California.  The purpose of the training was to educate child care providers, or those responsible for administering the child care program in each county to:  (1) identify environmental hazards, (2) remove/alleviate environmental hazards, (3) identify resources and contacts, (4) provide a Child Care Inspection Checklist.  As the first prototype for such training this effort provided an opportunity to identify critical knowledge gaps for this very important setting in the lives of children.  The Children’s Environmental Health Network gratefully acknowledges support from the San Francisco Foundation and California Wellness to design and deliver this training.

Training Manual on Pediatric Environmental Health: Putting It Into Practice
The Network's training manual for health care faculty is available on this website. You may download the entire manual or individual modules to save, print, or share electronically with students and colleagues. If you prefer, you may view the training manual on-line without downloading it. The manual has been designed to assist you to incorporate pediatric environmental health into your teaching program. Modules include case studies, discussion questions, and suggested assignments you can use to teach pediatric environmental health to your students, residents, or colleagues.

Pediatric Environmental Health Education Tools and Information for Health Care Practitioners

• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Children's Environmental Health Information For Physicians, Nurses, and Other Clinicians
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Case Studies in Pediatric Environmental Health

Environmental Health Curriculum for Elementary and Middle School Students

• ToxRap
• Student Environmental Development Program (SEDP)   NEW

Conferences and Meetings

Resource Guide on Children's Environmental Health