Children’s Environmental Health Resources

These pages provide a variety of resources to assist health professionals and public health advocates in preventing toxic exposures to children. The materials will allow you to educate yourselves, colleagues, and communities about toxic chemicals that may harm child development, and to provide tools to take action.

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December 2007: The LDA of Michigan's Healthy Children Project released "Clean and Green: Your Healthy Home and Family - A Guide to Avoiding Exposure to Toxic Chemicals in Your Home," and it is available for download from their web site.
Staff from the LDA, Clean Water Fund, and the Ecology Center contributed to this booklet.

Among the materials are educational materials resulting from the November 2005 conference that launched the Network, Out of Harm’s Way: Preventing Toxic Threats to Child Development in Michigan. Click here to view the conference materials page. More than 150 health and environmental professionals met to discuss the intersection between exposure to common environmental chemicals and childhood development, and clinical interventions to reduce neurotoxic threats throughout the lifecycle. Participants represented the Michigan Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Michigan State Medical Society, Ecology Center, American Association on Mental Retardation, Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the Center for Children’s Health and Environment.

The Network engages in environmental health education around the state. Our outreach programs target healthcare professionals, child advocates, and environmentalists. For more information, please contact: