Welcome to the home page for the Children's Environmental Health Working Group!
Mission and Goals
Our mission is to work collaboratively with diverse groups to eliminate children's harmful environmental exposures in the Puget Sound region and beyond during their most critical developmental years: pre-conception to age eight.
Our Mission and Goals statement emphasizes the need for diverse groups to come together to identify gaps and overlaps in messages, services and campaigns, as each member group works to eliminate children's harmful environmental exposures.
Beginnings
In 2007, interviews with about 30 regional stakeholders showed the majority felt a need for a new group to meet and bridge the gap between environmental and children's health groups. Our first meeting was in December of 2007; we currently meet monthly in north Seattle. The working group welcomes new members.
Meeting schedules
- The full working group meets monthly on the second Thursday of each month from 9:30 - 11:30, in the Fremont area of Seattle. Contact one of the co-chairs for more information.
Co-chairs:
Julia Berg 206-263-3042 or julia.berg@kingcounty.gov
Gail Gensler 206-263-3082 or gail.gensler@kingcounty.gov
- Subcommittee groups meet on their own schedule.
Meeting notes
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Resources
Ways to protect the very young from toxic chemicals
What do we really know about how our children are affected by toxic exposures, especially during their critical developmental years?
Visit this searchable database and find more information on every topic covered in the 2009 Northwest Children's Environmental Health Forum.
If you are a:
- Health professional
- Parent
- Builder
- Agency worker
- School official
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- Policy maker
- Homeowner
- Pregnant woman
- Child care provider
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This resource will provide the latest information to help protect the developing child from the effects of harmful environmental exposures.
Limit or expand your search with six categories, including languages.
The Northwest Children's Environmental Health Forum October 1 and 2, 2009
See forum slides and videos on the Forum web page.
CHE-WA's working group on Children's Environmental Health was thrilled to host more than 300 participants at its Northwest Children's Environmental Health Forum October 1-2, in Tukwila, Washington. A diverse audience participated, including healthcare providers, students, scientists, policy makers, elected officials' staff, children's advocates, local citizens and more. Elise Miller, national director of CHE, opened the event with a speech emphasizing the importance of scientific research on the environmental factors impacting our children's health and intellectual potential. Ted Schettler, MD, science director for the Science and Environmental Health Network, framed environmental factors in the broader context of social and economic stresses that together exacerbate children's ability to reach their full potential. Other plenary speakers shared the latest research on environmental factors linked to learning and developmental delays, autism, endocrine systems, and impacts that can be passed down through several generations in a family.
The second day of the forum focused on policy opportunities to better protect children's health. CHE-WA was honored to host Ron Sims, the new Undersecretary for Housing and Urban Development, and Martha Berger of EPA's Office of Children's Health Protection, offering perspectives on national efforts to protect children's environmental health.
The Faroes statement: Human health effects of developmental exposure to environmental toxicants. Developed in May 2007 by a group of international researchers, the Faroes statement is famous for moving from "the dose makes the poison" to "the timing makes the poison," particularly considering environmental toxins and their effects on the developing foetus.
http://www.pptox.dk/Consensus/tabid/72/Default.aspx
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