Child Health and The Environment - A Primer
The Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) is a multi-sectoral collaboration of organizations (formed in 2001) that is working to protect children’s health from environmental exposures and toxic chemicals by moving children’s environmental health issues into the minds of decision-makers, service provider organizations, individual practitioners, parents and the public. CPCHE’s members 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 & Women’s College Hospital
• Learning Disabilities Association of Canada
• Ontario College of Family Physicians
• Ontario Public Health Association • Pollution Probe
• South Riverdale Community Health Centre
• Toronto Public Health
With a shared vision of working together to create a healthy environment for children, CPCHE is committed to: raising the level of literacy about prenatal and children’s environmental health across Canada; supporting CPCHE partners to inform and advance a children’s environmental health policy agenda in Canada; advocating for and undertaking children’s environmental health and policy research that will help society to better understand prenatal and child health and protect children from toxic exposures; and ensuring that the coordinated work of CPCHE, its partners and its expanding network have the capacity to, and are effective, in improving the quality of children’s environmental health in Canada. It is our societal responsibility to work together to create a healthy environment for children. We invite you to take precautionary action and make decisions now that will protect children’s health and development now and in the future. To learn more about CPCHE, find out more about the issues and to receive copies of our Childproofing Brochure, please go to our website at www.healthyenvironmentforkids.ca.
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