Help Support Health Schools Network Valuable Work

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Friends, If you work in or with a school or just want to make things better

at your school, please go to Health Schools Networks website:

http://www.healthyschools.org/

See the section called " Announcement " and bonk where it says, " click here to

order "

http://www.healthyschools.org/guides_materials.html

A healthy school is a community asset!

A word about the Guides and Materials you can order from us:

Our 4-6 page guides, factsheets, and information packets (usually $3 each)

are designed by and for parents with professional and technical reviewers to

help parents and others resolve school environmental problems, or to help

schools adopt environmentally healthier practices. We started our system of

packets and guides in 1995.

For example, our 6-page Parent Guide to School Indoor Air Quality (funded by

the US Environmental Protection Agency) that builds from EPA's " Tools for

Schools " IAQ program, identifies health symptoms and no-cost steps schools

can take, and gives advice on what to do if your child seems to be the only

one affected. In 1999, the American Lung Association re-distributed it to

all of its affiliates nationally.

Our 8-page guide on Healthier Cleaning & Maintenance Practices and Products

that promotes 'green' housekeeping was developed jointly with the NYS

Association of Superintendents of School Buildings and Grounds. NYS SBGA

represents facility directors from more than 500 of the state's 700-plus

school districts.

Our 79-page " Environmental Action Guide for New York State Schools: Help for

Parents and Others in the Absence of Standards Just for Children " ($10) is

designed to give parents for the first time the same basic information

routinely available to school employees covered by federal Occupational

Safety and Health Administration (OSHA, all private institutions and adopted

for public employees in 23 states) for their own health protection. It was

researched by a team at Cornell University's School of Labor and Industrial

Relations.

Important:

All calls and requests are confidential. Healthy Schools Network is a 501c3

not for profit research, information, and education organization. It does

not sell or share its mail list. Donations to support our work are

tax-deductible and can be earmarked to help us help more children and their

parents.

A message to our Out of State readers:

Healthy Schools Network is a New York State-based not for profit

organization with a growing national track record advocating for children's

environmental health at school. While our guides and factsheets are designed

for use first in New York State, we have found through years of experience

that 'kids are kids and schools are schools'.

Using our GUIDES, and checking with your own state's education or health

department, you will be able to attack a health-threatening building problem

today. To solve larger statewide issues, such as securing more funds just

for urgent school repairs, or protecting the occupants of all schools under

construction, you may need new state legislation or regulations.

To read the reports they have on line - go here

http://www.healthyschools.org/reports.html

Check out the " good news and bad news " to see what is going on in your

school district at http://www.healthyschools.org/health_learning.html

If you can afford to make a donation, send it to Healthy Schools Network,

Inc., 773 Madison Avenue, Albany, NY 12208

Knowing , she and the other volunteers will keep right on plugging

until the Pesticide Notification Bill passes and parents everywhere are

informed about toxic chemicals being used in and on school grounds. They

are, in a nutshell, good people doing great work - help them out if you can.