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Alternatives for Community & Environment
2181 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02119
 		 Phone: (617) 442-3343
Fax: (617) 442-2425
URL: http://www.ace-ej.org
Email: info@ace-ej.org

 

Mission Statement

  
Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE) is a community-based, non-profit environmental justice law and education center. ACE works in partnership with community groups from low income communities and communities of color and helps them address their environmental and environmental health issues by providing free legal, educational and organizing services.
  • Geographic focus: Massachusetts
  • No membership
  • Other organizational activities (not directed specifically toward children): advocacy, education, research
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    Children's Environmental Health Activities

    		  
    Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE) works with youth on environmental justice projects of their choosing and trains them to educate their peers and other adults. ACE has several projects which directly or indirectly address children's environmental health. The Roxbury Environmental Empowerment Project (REEP) was designed to provide the educational resources and organizing assistance necessary to assist residents from Boston's urban communities in their efforts to address environmental justice problems in their communities. The REEP program coordinates curriculum activities for young people in elementary, middle and high schools, as well as other youth groups. REEP has designed an environmental justice curriculum with several components, including asthma education and prevention. REEP also trains youth to serve as asthma peer educators and carries out projects to reduce the environmental causes of asthma.
     

    Please note: the information presented above was provided and reviewed for accuracy by Alternatives for Community & Environment and was not verified independently by the Children's Environmental Health Network.
    Publication date: 6/2/99
    Updated: 7/27/2006

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