Community Environmental Health

Neighborhood Leadership for Environmental Health…Sustainable Communities…Air Pollution…Chemical Plant Safety & Security…Growing Power.

Resources:

Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards; Guidelines for Early Care and Education Programs, 3rd Edition: the best evidence, expertise, and experience on quality health and safety practices and policies that should be followed in early care and education settings.

Neighborhood Leadership for Environmental Health (NLEH) is an EPA CARE project that engages community residents, businesses and institutions in a collaborative process of data gathering, education, consensus priority-setting and action plan development to address significant environmental concerns in the inner-city Cleveland neighborhoods of Central, Fairfax, Buckeye-Woodland, and Mt. Pleasant…

Community design affects health (promotion of walking, bike riding, parks), safety (street level activity, visibility) and social cohesion (opportunities for interaction). Environmental design and neighborhood programs suggest positive outcomes on health and general wellbeing. Many community projects, like the ones mentioned above, are likely to have constructive spillover effects on community health…

See Cleveland Hazecam…Northeast Ohio’s Air Quality…Sources of Air Pollution…What You Can Do to Improve Air Quality…Why Should I Worry?…Top Air Pollution Emitters…Diesel Idling Reporting Form…

Cuyahoga County Chemical Safety…Chemical Facility Security and Safety: Inherently Safer Chemical Processes…Bhopal- 26th Anniversary: The World’s Worst Chemical Plant Disaster…Bhopal Disaster Risk- Institute, West Virginia- Bayer Lethal Chemical Explosion…More Information on Chemical Safety and Security…

Cleveland’s Rid-All Green Partnership holds the newest Regional Outreach Training Center of the Growing Power, Inc. network. The Rid-All site features two greenhouses and an aquaponics system in Cleveland’s Central neighborhood. Growing Power is a national nonprofit organization that implements sustainable farming in low-income communities in an effort to provide healthy, affordable and high-quality food…