Celebrating Children’s Health Month and Encouraging Collaboration!

October is Children’s Health Month. This observance serves as an opportunity to highlight ATSDR’s on-going work to protect children from environmental hazards that affect their health. Protecting children’s environmental health requires collaboration among their parents and caregivers, communities, health professionals, and local, state, and federal governments. ATSDR has many initiatives in place to protect children’s environmental health and encourage collaboration.

This month, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) celebrates Children’s Health Month, along with the seventh annual Children’s Environmental Health Day (October 13th). These observances serve as an opportunity to highlight our on-going work to protect children from environmental hazards that affect their health.

We all want our children to thrive where they live, learn, and play. However, children can become ill from environmental exposures to harmful chemicals in the air they breathe, the water they drink, or the soil they touch or swallow.

Protecting children’s environmental health requires collaboration among their parents and caregivers, communities, health professionals, and local, state, and federal governments. ATSDR has many initiatives in place to protect children’s environmental health and encourage collaboration, such as Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education.

ATSDR’s initiatives provide communities and partners with the resources they need to identify and reduce environmental hazards and promote a healthier environment for children. We have developed free, practical, online tools to help establish programs in communities. We also provide technical support and guidance to states.

Children need to be at the forefront of our nation’s actions regarding environmental health. Everyone working in the field of children’s environmental health, and public health at large, can work together to meet this need. Together, we can raise awareness and understanding about the critical issues facing our most precious resources and work to mobilize protective action.

ATSDR Initiatives to Protect Children’s Environmental Health

• APPLETREE
• Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education (CSPECE)
• Don’t Mess with Mercury
• Land Reuse and Brownfield Program
• Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSUS
• soilSHOP

We encourage you to join our efforts to improve environmental health for our children and their futures. Visit our websites today and use our tools to learn more about protecting the children in your community from environmental hazards.

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