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** Please be aware that additional holistic resources as well as resources relevant to specific topics are provided in the Federal Agencies, Hotlines, Additional Web Resources for Specific Hazards/Topics, and/or Recursos en Español (Spanish Resources) sections of the website. Further, links to specific documents, fact sheets, etc. are provided within the relevant topical sections of the Alliance website.
  • American Lung Association - www.lungusa.org - This site contains information on various lung diseases and their causes including asthma, allergies, cancer, radon, carbon monoxide, asbestos, and many more.
  • American Public Health Association - www.apha.org - Access the American Journal of Public Health and other publications, state health associations, fact sheets, and health action alerts from this site.
  • Children’s Environmental Health Network - www.cehn.org - This site provides information about the Network, children's environmental health, and links to sources of information and resources.
  • Children’s Health Environmental Coalition Network, HealtheHouse - www.checnet.org/ehouse - This is an interactive web site with information on how to reduce environmental health risks to children in and around the home.
  • Community Environmental Health Resource Center (CEHRC) - CEHRC (pronounced "search"), a project of the Alliance, was a resource to grassroots groups working for social justice in low-income communities around the country. CEHRC helped community-based organizations develop their capacity to document environmental health hazards in substandard housing and to pursue effective organizing and advocacy strategies for corrective and preventive action through access to hazard assessment tools and training in their use, technical assistance, strategy advice, mechanisms for peer to peer support, and sub-grants.
  • Community Toolbox for Children's Environmental Health - www.ctb.ku.edu - The Community Toolbox provides small grants and technical assistance to build the organizational capacity and sustainability of parent and other community-based organizations working to eliminate children’s environmental health threats in communities at highest risk.
  • Doc4Kids Project, “Not Safe at Home: How America’s Housing Crisis Threatens the Health of Its Children” - Report [PDF] - Appendix [PDF] - A project of the Children’s Hospital at the Boston Medical Center, Doc4Kids works to show the connections between children’s health and America’s housing crisis. This report details some of the critical issues and provides real-life examples of a child’s health being negatively affected by housing conditions and positively affected by appropriate housing interventions.
  • Environmental Health Watch - www.ehw.org - Providing information, assistance, and advocacy tools to protect and sustain human health and the health of the environment, EHW is active on numerous issues including lead, asthma triggers, radon, pesticides, asbestos, and conducting moisture audits.
  • Health House - www.healthhouse.org - Created by the American Lung Association of Minnesota, the Health House project is a national education program to raise the standards for better indoor environments.
  • Healthy Indoor Air for America's Homes - www.healthyindoorair.org -
    A joint project of the US EPA, the University of Montana's Extension Service, and the USDA's Cooperative Extension Service, this site contains extensive information about lead poisoning and other healthy homes issues, including more than a dozen instruction modules on various hazards.
    • In general, many of the programs in the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) can provide useful information. For more information on these programs, please visit www.csrees.usda.gov.

  • Healthy Schools Network - www.healthyschools.org - This site contains resources about protecting children's environmental health at school.
  • Home*A*Syst - www.uwex.edu/homeasyst - A joint project of the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES), USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the University of Wisconsin, Home*A*Syst provides healthy homes information and tools, aides for locating resources specific to each state, links to other useful healthy homes resources, and archived issues of their online newsletter, The Threshold.
  • National Center for Healthy Housing - www.nchh.org - The National Center for Healthy Housing evaluates and validates cost-effective methods to protect children from residential environmental hazards while preserving the supply of affordable housing.
  • Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment - www.partnersforchildren.org - This site contains extensive resources on a variety of projects being carried out by about 80 member organizations working on children's environmental health issues, as well as links to the websites of these organizations.
  • Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU) - http://aoec.org/PEHSU/index.html - The PEHSU program was developed in 1998 by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics to be a national resource for pediatricians, other health care providers, federal staff, and the general public. The PEHSU program focuses on medical education and training, telephone consultation, and clinical specialty referral for children who may have been exposed to environmental hazards. The PEHSU website contains contact information and links to the eleven PEHSUs currently operating across the United States.
  • Tox Town - www.toxtown.nlm.nih.gov - A pilot project of the Specialized Information Services Division of the National Library of Medicine, Tox Town was launched in October 2002 to graphically provide information about toxic hazards in “Anytown,” USA. Hazard information is provided by both the specific environment (i.e. homes, schools, etc.) as well as the specific chemical (i.e. lead, radon, asbestos, etc.).

  • Weatherization Plus Health - Weatherization Plus Health is a initiative to provide weatherization programs with the tools they need to address asthma triggers (e.g., moisture/mold, pests, allergens), lead hazards, and carbon monoxide when they are in a home. Weatherization Plus Health was developed by a collaborative effort among weatherization, health, and environmental experts.