Organizations and Agencies Working on
Children's Environmental Health

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National Nonprofit Organizations

International Organizations

Federal Government Offices

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in Other States

MICHIGAN NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

American Academy of Pediatrics (Michigan Chapter)
The AAP of Michigan is an organization of professionals advocating for the excellence of pediatric care and well-being of Michigan children.
www.miaap.org

Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS)
ACCESS is a human resources organization that strives to unite the Arab American Community with the Greater Community by providing services and personable events.
www.accesscommunity.org/site/PageServer

Association for Children's Mental Health
A statewide chapter of the national Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health whose mission is to promote the development of a system of care for the families of children with emotional, behavioral or mental health disorders through community education and awareness, family support and involvement and the persistent pursuit of advocacy to improve the quality of life for Michigan's families.
www.acmh-mi.org

Autism Society of Michigan (ASM)
ASM is committed to empowering individuals with autism and their families by offering educational resources and materials, workshops, seminars and other services. Their mission is to assure full participation and self determination in every aspect of life for each individual.
www.autism-mi.org

Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination (CACC)
A grassroots environmental organization based in the Great Lakes since 1978 seeking to raise awareness on harmful contaminants.
www.caccmi.org

Clean Water Fund (CWF)
CWF is a research and education organization, with locally-staffed environmental and health programs serving communities in Michigan and over 20 states. Together with Clean Water Action, with 170,000 Michigan member-households, CWF's programs reach tens of thousands of Michigan residents each year.
www.cleanwaterfund.org/michigan

Clinton County Family Resource Center
An organization operating in Clinton County, Michigan that is committed to providing a caring environment that strengthens and supports individuals, families, children, and parents by focusing on building connections, education, and empowerment.
www.clintoncountyfrc.net

Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice
An organization which bases its mission on the fact that Detroit is home to some of the largest environmental challenges in the United States, while also being one of the most segregated cities in the country with an 80% African-American population. Collectively, these conditions afford the opportunity for Detroiters to become national leaders in finding solutions to the daunting challenges of environmental justice, city revitalization, and economic redevelopment.
www.dwej.org

East Michigan Environmental Action Council
Works in the legislature, courts, township halls and schools to inform the public about environmental issues in an effort to develop solutions to environmental problems. Some projects include drafting regulations for local governments and providing public information and environmental education opportunities throughout southeast Michigan.
www.emeac.org

Ecology Center
Works for a just and healthy environment through grassroots organizing, advocacy, education, and demonstration projects. The Ecology Center is a regional leader that works for a safe and healthy environment where people live, work, and play. Currently, their campaigns cover topics such as Children's Environmental Health, Green Chemistry, Clean Cars, Environmental Education, and Recycling.
www.ecocenter.org

Healthy Homes Coalition of West Michigan
Specializes in preventing childhood lead poisoning by partnering with a variety of organizations and providing information to parents, landlords, and other community members.
www.healthyhomescoalition.org

Learning Disabilities Association (LDA) of Michigan
Works to advance the general well being for individuals with and the education and knowledge of learning disabilities, while enhancing the quality of life for all individuals with learning disabilities and their families through advocacy, education, training, service and support of research.
www.ldaofmichigan.org

Local Motion
A grassroots, community-based organization dedicated to raising awareness about the connections between environmental toxins and negative health consequences, including cancer. They aim to raise public awareness about the links between environmental toxins and negative health consequences in an effort to influence personal and industrial behavior to promote improved health and quality of life.
www.local-motion.org

Michigan Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
The Michigan Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (MINAPNAP) is committed to improving the quality of health care for infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. Michigan NAPNAP provides pertinent educational programs for its members and other Advanced Practice Nurses and strives to promote the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner role.
www.minapnap.org

Michigan Coalition for Children and Families
A statewide, non-partisan network of more than 70 child-focused organizations and individuals with a shared mission of improving the quality of life for Michigan children and families. A significant component of this organization is the Children's Agenda, which outlines the investments in prevention services that support workforce development from birth, including quality 0-5 child development and education, parenting education, pre-natal and post natal care, support services for abused and neglected children, and school based health services.
www.miccf.org

Michigan Environmental Council
Provides a collective voice for the environment at the local, state and federal levels. Working with member groups and their collective membership of nearly 200,000 residents, MEC is addressing the primary assaults on Michigan's environment; promoting alternatives to urban blight and suburban sprawl; advocating for a sustainable environment and economy; protecting Michigan's water legacy; promoting cleaner energy; and working to diminish environmental impacts on children's health.
www.environmentalcouncil.org

Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
Educates citizens and public officials about key environmental issues facing Michigan and the Great Lakes, promotes active and responsible citizenship to address environmental challenges, and works with a wide range of public interest groups to advance clean water, clean air, and healthy communities.
www.michiganlcvedfund.org

Michigan Nurses Association (MNA)
The MNA, the voice of nurses for 100 years, is the largest nurses union in the state of Michigan. The MNA promotes the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, fosters high standards of nursing practice and lobbies the legislative and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and recipients of nursing services.
www.minurses.org

Sierra Club Michigan Chapter
The Sierra Club Michigan Chapter is your statewide voice for the nation's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization. Our members are some 20,000 of your Michigan friends and neighbors. Inspired by nature, we work together to protect our communities and the planet.
www.michigan.sierraclub.org

Voices for Earth Justice
A grassroots environmental education and advocacy organization dedicated to making connections among religious faith, spiritual practice, ethical behavior, and care for the natural world. VEJ aims to build an interfaith network of people committed to prayer, education, and action that deepen our sense of wonder, responsibility, and gratitude for all creation.
www.voices4earth.org

MICHIGAN GOVERNMENT OFFICES

Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH)
The MDCH oversees public health policy and serves as a resource for Michigan citizens on health issues.
www.michigan.gov/mdch

Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ)
The MDEQ is the state governmental body in charge of environment legislation and policy.
www.michigan.gov/mdeq

NATIONAL NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

Advancing Green Chemistry
Green Chemistry is the scientific foundation of greener products, a sustainable economy, and healthier people. AGC’s role is to strengthen and promote the science and its practitioners, to link to strategic partners, and to highlight emerging strategic opportunities for stakeholders. In short, AGC seeks to tip the balance in favor of broad support for – and wide adoption of – Green Chemistry.
www.advancinggreenchemistry.org

American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - Environmental Health Initiative
This initiative by the AAIDD seeks to forge a partnership with members of the environmental health and developmental disabilities community to promote good health and reduce disability.
www.ehinitiative.org

Autism Society of America, Environmental Health Initiative
Founded in 1965, ASA is the nation's leading grassroots autism organization intended to raise public awareness on the developmental disorder as well as bringing groups together to lobby for appropriate services.
www.autism-society.org

Breast Cancer Action
Breast Cancer Action carries the voices of people affected by breast cancer to inspire and compel the changes necessary to end the breast cancer epidemic.
bcaction.org

Breast Cancer Fund
The Breast Cancer Fund identifies — and advocates for elimination of — the environmental and other preventable causes of the disease.
www.breastcancerfund.org
Download the 2008 Breast Cancer Fund report:
www.breastcancerfund.org/site/pp.asp?c=kwKXLdPaE&b=3956981

Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research, University of Washington
As part of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, this multi-disciplinary team formed to learn more about children's susceptibility to pesticides and the way pesticides affect normal development and learning.
depts.washington.edu/chc

Center for Children's Health and the Environment
As part of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, this academic research and policy center develops strategies to prevent learning disabilities, asthma, obesity and cancer by protecting children from environmental toxins. They work with state and federal leaders as well as with the World Health Organization and conduct research on the health hazards of pesticides, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and air pollutants.
www.childenvironment.org

Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ)
CHEJ's overarching goal has consistently been to prevent harm--particularly among vulnerable populations such as children. CHEJ is a leader in advocating responsible corporate behavior (located in communities and selling products to families) in replacing outdated chemicals with safe, affordable alternatives to build long-term, safe economic opportunities and community benefits.
www.chej.org

CHE Toxicant and Disease Database
An impressive, searchable database that summarizes the scientific evidence on links between chemical contaminants and approximately 180 human diseases or conditions.
www.database.healthandenvironment.org

Children's Environmental Health Institute
The goal of the Children's Environmental Health Institute is to identify, develop, and promote solutions to improve children's environmental health through scientific research, environmental education, and public policy.
www.cehi.org

Children's Environmental Health Network
A national multi-disciplinary organization whose mission is to protect the fetus and the child from environmental health hazards and promote a healthy environment.
www.cehn.org

Clean Production Action
CPA is an organization that promotes the production of goods in harmony with natural ecological cycles and through sustainable renewable energy methods. They address products along the commercial spectrum that may be harmful to public health.
cleanproduction.org

Clean Water Fund (CWF)
The Clean Water Fund brings diverse communities together to work for changes that improve our lives, promoting sensible solutions for people and the environment. This non-profit strives to protect and conserve land and water resources today in order to secure clean, safe, and affordable drinking water for present and future generations.
www.cleanwaterfund.org

Collaborative on Health and the Environment
A nationwide network of concerned people and organizations working together toward the shared goal of improving public and individual health. CHE's primary activities include: 1) sharing scientific research information about the links between environmental contaminants and human disease; 2) fostering interdisciplinary and inclusive collaboration among diverse constituencies interested in those links; and 3) facilitating appropriate actions to reduce exposure to contaminants and to improve the care of those affected.
www.healthandenvironment.org

Community Toolbox for Children's Environmental Health
Community Toolbox for Children's Environmental Health provides technical assistance to parent- and community-based organizations throughout the United States with a specific emphasis in California and Arizona, the Southeast and Northeast. They assist communities by offering "tools" that will strengthen their organizations and make them more effective in advocating for and promoting the changes they seek.
www.communitytoolbox.org

Environmental Working Group
A team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers who use science-based research to expose threats to human health and the environment, and to ultimately find solutions.
www.ewg.org

Healthy Child Healthy World (formerly CEHC)
An organization dedicated to protecting the health and well being of children from harmful environmental exposures. They work to educate parents, support protective policies, and engage communities to make responsible decisions, simple everyday choices, and well-informed lifestyle improvements to create healthy environments where children and families can flourish.
healthychild.org

Healthy Schools Network
A organization working to build the platform and the forum for school environments through the collaborative Coalition for Healthier Schools and convene with more than 400 local, state, and national partners. Major focuses include: 1) High Performance School Design 2) Greening Existing Schools; and 3) Environmental Public Health for Children most affected by environmental exposures.
www.healthyschools.org

Institute for Children's Environmental Health
A nonprofit educational organization working to ensure a healthy, just and sustainable future for all children. ICEH's primary mission is to foster collaborative initiatives to reduce and ultimately eliminate environmental exposures that can undermine the health of current and future generations. ICEH coordinates the Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative of the collaborative on Health and the Environment.
www.iceh.org

Louisville Charter for Safer Chemicals
A network of groups and individuals whose common goal is to work together on chemical policies and campaigns to protect human health and the environment from exposures to unnecessary harmful chemicals.
www.louisvillecharter.org

Lowell Center for Sustainable Production
The Center brings together groups and scientific research to promote production and manufacturing policy standards that are ecologically sustainable.
www.sustainableproduction.org

Moms Rising
Formed in 2006, Moms Rising is an organization seeking to restore the image of the American family. It provides easy entry for citizen advocacy and utilizes the power of online organizing to reach a diverse audience.
www.momsrising.org

National Association for the Dually Diagnosed
The NADD is a nonprofit membership group that brings together professionals, families and groups to advocate mental wellness for persons with developmental disabilities.
www.thenadd.org

Natural Resources Defense Council
Read about toxic chemicals and children's health conditions such as asthma.
www.nrdc.org/health/default.asp

Physicians for Social Responsibility
An affiliate of Physicians for Social Responsibility, this organization consists of physicians, health care professionals and supporters whose goals are to: 1) further educate the medical community on the linkages between environmental exposures and health; 2) activate the medical community to protect the environment and public health; 3) provide resources to community groups relating to human health and environmental exposure; and 4) participate in public policy debates of public health and environmental issues.
psr.igc.org/hhep.htm

Science and Environmental Health Network
Leading proponent in the United States of the Precautionary Principle as a new basis for environmental and public health policy. The Network: 1) encourages the practice of science and the accurate interpretation of information for public interest, 2) identifies information that may provoke essential change, and 3) helps communities and governments develop and implement sound environmental policies.
www.sehn.org

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Health Care Without Harm
An international coalition of hospitals and health care systems, medical professionals, community groups, health-affected constituencies, labor unions, and environmental health organizations and religious groups whose mission is to transform the health care sector worldwide, without compromising patient safety or care, so that it is ecologically sustainable and no longer a source of harm to public health and the environment.
www.hcwh.org

WHO's Children's Health and Environment Department
This organization is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.
www.who.int/ceh/en

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OFFICES

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Office of Children's Health
ATSDR is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that serves the public by using the best science, taking responsive public health actions, and providing trusted health information to prevent harmful exposures and disease related to toxic substances. It provides functions such as public health assessments of waste sites, health consultations concerning specific hazardous substances, health surveillance and registries, response to emergency releases of hazardous substances, applied research in support of public health assessments, information development and dissemination, and education and training concerning hazardous substances.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov

National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences
A research institute and center that is part of the National Institutes of Health under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The mission of the NIEHS is to reduce the burden of human illness and disability by understanding how the environment influences the development and progression of human disease.
www.niehs.nih.gov

National Institutes of Health: Child and Teen Health
An index of topics provided by the National Institutes of Health, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
health.nih.gov/search.asp/24

U.S. EPA: Office of Children's Health Protection
As part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, provides information on potential health hazards for children, general health information, and tips on protecting children, among other things. Issues reports on trends in children's environmental health and web casts on children's environmental health protection, while playing an active role on an international level for protecting children's health.
yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/content/homepage.htm

U.S. HUD Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control
Provides funds to state and local governments to develop cost-effective ways to reduce lead-based paint hazards. The office enforces the U.S. Housing and Urban Development's lead-based paint regulations, provides public outreach and technical assistance, and conducts technical studies to help protect children and their families from health and safety hazards in the home. This agency also conducts the "Healthy Homes for Healthy Kids" campaign, a three-year, 30-city outreach effort to inform parents about health and safety hazards in the home. These can include lead paint, mold, moisture, and pests like mice and cockroaches.
www.hud.gov/offices/lead

NONPROFIT COALITIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN OTHER STATES

Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow (Massachusetts)
A Massachusetts based coalition of citizens, scientists, health professionals, workers, and educators seeking preventive action on toxic hazards.
www.healthytomorrow.org

Environmental Health Strategy Center (Maine)
Works to protect human health by reducing exposure to toxic chemicals, expanding the use of safer alternatives, and building partnerships that focus on the environment as a public health priority. This work is focused on the goal of phasing out persistent toxic chemicals in Maine within a single generation.
www.preventharm.org

Washington Toxics Coalition (Washington State)
Washington Toxics Coalition protects public health and the environment by eliminating toxic pollution. WTC promotes alternatives, advocates policies, empowers communities, and educates people to create a healthy environment.
www.watoxics.org

Organizations and Agencies Working on Children's Environmental Health