[greenon-l] We Conserve - Childproofing for Environmental Health

[Chris Winter]

Childproofing for Environmental Health 

National Awareness Campaign Begins Today

The Canadian Partnership for Children's Health and Environment (CPCHE) is
pleased to announce its  ' Childproofing for Environmental  Health'
campaign,  aimed at providing parents, care givers, service providers and
decision-makers with the tools to protect children from environmental risks.


 

At a news conference  on September 15, 2005,  Dr. David McKeown, Medical
Officer of Health, Toronto;  Paul Muldoon, Executive Director, Canadian
Environmental Law Association;  Dr. Hilary de Veber, Pediatrician; and Dr.
Ann Phillips, Environmental Health Promoter and Researcher, South Riverdale
Community Health Centre launched this national campagin.

As a foundation for this campaign, CPCHE  has launched  two new educational
resources (on-line links provided below) alongside the release of a detailed
technical report from Toronto's Medical Officer of Health.  Materials are
available online at www.healthyenvironmentforkids.ca
<http://www.healthyenvironmentforkids.ca>  or go directly to: 

*	CPCHE
<http://www.healthyenvironmentforkids.ca/img_upload/e88956636c1ebb6ffd9a08ef
808ad583/Launch_Press_Release.pdf>  Media Release 
*	Child
<http://www.healthyenvironmentforkids.ca/img_upload/13297cd6a147585a24c1c623
3d8d96d8/Primer.pdf>  Health and the Environment - A Primer (large download
- 2.5 MB) 
*	Playing
<http://www.healthyenvironmentforkids.ca/img_upload/13297cd6a147585a24c1c623
3d8d96d8/Brochure___English___8_pages.pdf>  it Safe - Childproofing for
Environmental Health (brochure) 
*	Ne
<http://www.healthyenvironmentforkids.ca/img_upload/13297cd6a147585a24c1c623
3d8d96d8/Brochure___French___8_pages.pdf>  prenons pas de risque, protégeons
la sant é
<http://www.healthyenvironmentforkids.ca/img_upload/13297cd6a147585a24c1c623
3d8d96d8/Brochure___French___8_pages.pdf>  environnementale
<http://www.healthyenvironmentforkids.ca/img_upload/13297cd6a147585a24c1c623
3d8d96d8/Brochure___French___8_pages.pdf>  de nos enfants (brochure) 
*	Order
<http://www.healthyenvironmentforkids.ca/img_upload/13297cd6a147585a24c1c623
3d8d96d8/CH_Order_Forms.pdf>  Form for Primer and Brochure 
*	Toronto Public Health <http://www.toronto.ca/health/>  - media
release, backgrounder, detailed technical report, summary report,
transmittal report to Board of Health. 

Member organizations of the Canadian Partnership for Children's Health and
Environment include: 

      Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
      Canadian Child Care Federation
      Canadian Environmental Law Association
      Canadian Institute of Child Health
      Environmental Health Clinic, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health
Sciences Centre
      Learning Disabilities Association of Canada
      Ontario College of Family Physicians
      Ontario Public Health Association
      Pollution Probe
      South Riverdale Community Health Centre
      Toronto Public Health

For more information : 

Kathleen Cooper, Senior Researcher, Canadian Environmental Law Association
(author of the Primer and co-author of the Toronto Public Health report)
416-960-2284, ext 221 or kcooper at cela.ca  

 

Tonya Surman, Partnership Director, Canadian Partnership for Children's
HEalth and Enviornment (CPCHE) at 416-595-9579 or  <mailto:tonya at commons.ca>
tonya at commons.ca.

 

Support for this campaign has come from a variety of supporters including
the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the Laidlaw Foundation.

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