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Healthy Schools Network
Claire L. Barnett, MBA
Executive Director
773 Madison Ave
Albany, NY 12208
Phone: (212) 482-0204, (518) 462-0632 : Fax(518) 462-0433
URL: www.healthyschools.org

 

Mission Statement

  
Healthy Schools Network, Inc. is a national not for profit environmental health information, education, and research organization dedicated to assuring every child an environmentally safe and healthy school. Centered on protecting children, it has an active policy and outreach agenda in New York State, convened and coordinates the national Coalition for Healthier Schools, and through its award-winning Clearinghouse, has provided organizing and technical assistance to parents, personnel and schools in every state. HSN has spurred the development of and partners with a growing set of state and local healthy schools groups addressing schools as children's workplaces-- schools and day care facilities. With a professional Board of Directors and Board of National Advisers from labor, education, health, parent, and environmental organizations, it has won new policies, legislation, regulations, and funds to improve school environments in New York State and nationally .

  • Geographic focus: national
  • Membership: 9,000 individuals and organizations

    • Services

    		  
    Healthy Schools Network's Healthy Schools/Healthy Kids Clearinghouse was established in 1996 to provide peer-reviewed and user-friendly and field-tested practical advice to parents, personnel, and schools on how to improve school environments. School construction is the largest category of all public works, while national studies estimate that half of the nation's 115,000 schools have problems with indoor air quality; over 50 million Americans are at school every day, 20% of the total US population. Indoor air can be 5-100 more polluted that than outdoor, due to multiple factors of poor building design, over-crowding, poor siting of facilities, toxic product use, poor ventilation, and more; asthma is the leading cause of school absenteeism and teacher occupational illness. Recently, more than half of all school nationally honored by US EPA for improved facilities came from communities that sought and applied HSN's advise. HSN also provide advocates' listserves and operates NewsSlices, an self-subscribed online service featuring news on child and adult environmental public health, building sciences, and environmental affairs.

    Publications and Information Services  
    • Able to respond to questions from the public.
    • Able to respond quickly to new developments

    Please note: the information presented above was provided and reviewed for accuracy by New York Healthy Schools Network and was not verified independently by the Children's Environmental Health Network.
    Publication date: 5/5/99