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CHAMACOS Study
The CHAMACOS study is a longitudinal birth cohort study examining chemicals and other factors in the environment and children's health.
In 1999-2000, CHAMACOS enrolled 601 pregnant women living in the agircultural Salinas Valley. They are following their children through age 12 to measure their exposures to pesticides and other chemicals and to determine if this exposure impacts their growth, health, and development.
Children's Environmental Health Network
This organization has a wide variety of information about the health effects of toxic chemicals on children. Produced Training Manual on Pediatric Environmental Health: Putting it Into Practice, and an environmental resource guide of organizations active in the field of children's environmental health
Link
http://www.cehn.org/
Children's Environmental Health Network Listserv
Children's Environmental Health Network Listserv - provides a forum for discussion on children's environmental health. Subscribe by sending a blank message to cehnlist-on@cehn.org
Children's Health Environmental Network (CHEC)
Children's Health Environmental Network (CHEC) is a national non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public, specifically parents and caregivers, about environmental toxins that affect children's health. Their website features HealtheHouse, an interactive web resource for environmental health risks children face in the home.
Environmental Management of Pediatric Asthma: Guidelines for Health Care Providers
http://www.neefusa.org/health/asthma/asthmaguidelines.htm
These guidelines are aimed at integrating environmental management of asthma into pediatric health care. Offers clinical competencies in environmental health relevant to pediatric asthma and outlines the environmental interventions to communicate to patients.
EPA Office of Children's Health Protection
EPA Office of Children's Health Protection provides a good list of children's health resources on the web.
Farm Safety 4 Just Kids (FS4JK)
Farm Safety 4 Just Kids (FS4JK) promotes a safe farm environment to prevent health hazards, injuries, and fatalities to children and youth.
Healthiest Nation in One Generation
Just as adults spend most of their days at work, children spend many of their waking hours at school. So it’s not surprising that, along with their homes and communities, schools are where kids learn good habits, like being physically active every day, or potentially bad habits, like not making healthy decisions at lunch. Therefore, as we seek to help nurture the healthiest nation in one generation, schools are a central part of the strategy.
Hole In The Wall Gang Camp
Founded by Paul Newman, the camp is a residential summer camp with year-round programs located in northeastern Connecticut where children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses do not have to sit on the sidelines.
Lice Solutions Resource Network, Inc.
Lice Solutions Resource Network, Inc. is the only nonprofit treatment center in the US. Working closely with several universities, research groups and pharmaceuticals they are helping to update communities across the US with newer and more accurate head lice information.
