ICEH: Programs

Working for a Healthy, Just and Sustainable Future
for ALL Children

Programs: Overview
Overview of Programs	Learning and Developmental Disabilties Initiative	Collaborative on Health and the Environment – Washington	Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment	Past Programs

Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative (LDDI)

The Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative (LDDI) is a working group of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment (www.healthandenvironment.org). The primary mission of LDDI is to foster collaboration among learning and developmental disability organizations, researchers, health professionals and environmental health groups to address concerns about the impact environmental pollutants may have on healthy brain development. LDDI currently has over 150 organizational and individual members engaged in educational and policy efforts.

Please follow this link to learn more about LDDI.

Collaborative on Health and the Environment – Washington (CHE-WA)

The Collaborative on Health and the Environment – Washington (CHE-WA) is a cross-section of researchers, health-affected groups, health care practitioners, environmental health and justice advocates, and other concerned citizens, and is an offshoot to the national CHE. Currently, CHE-WA is focused on broadening regional education on environmental health issues, encouraging city and county governments to pass a Precautionary Principle statement, and supporting collaborative efforts in the elimination of persistent bioaccumulative toxic chemicals (PBTs).

As coordinator of CHE-WA, ICEH organizes the annual Environmental Health Lecture Series in Seattle. Go to information about the lecture series.

Please follow this link to go to the CHE-WA website.

Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment (PCHE)

The Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment is a growing North American coalition with 240 individual and organizational members representing government, academic, medical and community-based organizations committed to building a strong, sustainable and collaborative movement to protect current and future generations f rom harmful environmental exposures.

Please follow this link to go to the PCHE website.

Past Programs

Initiated by ICEH, these programs have come under the direction of other entities.

Healthy Futures Project

A project-based program on environmental health and justice for youth in the Pacific Northwest, this program fosters both scientific thinking and creative expression to inspire youth to serve as change agents for a healthy future.

Please follow this link to learn more about the Healthy Futures Project.

Healthy Schools Initiative (HSI)

This program started with two invitational Healthy Schools Roundtables in Portland and Washington cosponsored by ICEH and EPA Region 10. Recommendations that emerged from the previous roundtables and other meetings are being implemented.