Children's Environmental Health Network acts on its deep care for children to create safer environments for them to grow. As someone who works for state-based organization that does the same, I've been consistently impressed by CEHN's commitment to real results. The staff are smart, hard-working and committed. CEHN's work is based on science, and they forward realistic solutions. This is a nonprofit to support!
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- EIN 52-2305620
- 202-543-4033
- 110 Maryland Ave NE Ste 404 Washington DC 20002 USA
- www.cehn.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Environment, Health, Health Care, Pediatrics
Mission: The Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN) is a national multi-disciplinary organization whose mission is to protect the developing child from environmental health hazards and promote a healthier environment. CEHN works with diverse organizations and individuals to promote child-protective policies, train professionals, educate the general public, and promote key research efforts, within the field of children's environmental health.
Results: Created first pediatric environmental health curriculum (1990). This has been updated twice (in 1999 and 2014), and is free for download from the CEHN website. Published first Resource Guide on Children’s Environmental Health (1997). Began managing the Eco-Healthy Child Care® Program in October 2010. To date, this national environmental health training and assessment program, the only one of its kind, has endorsed over 2,490 child care providers, serving over 108,000 children, in 49 states and the District of Columbia. The vision that CEHN outlined and advocated for in the early 1990s for addressing children’s issues -- Federal interagency coordination, EPA’s Office of Children’s Health Protection, research centers on children’s environmental health, and the National Children’s Study – have all become reality.
Target demographics: protect children from harmful chemical exposures in air, water, food, and consumer products
Direct beneficiaries per year: 594 child care centers to become Eco-Healthy endorsed, protecting 32,445 children from unnecessary toxic chemical exposures. We also helped influence FDA's decision to ban certain harmful additives from food packaging.
Geographic areas served: the United States of America
Programs: Eco-Healthy Child Care® : the only national, science-based program that supports child care providers in creating environmentally healthy child care settings via education and training for child care professionals and an endorsement opportunity for child care facilities. Research translation: CEHN provides research and translation for academic institutions and research centers; hosts biennial pediatric research conferences on cutting edge science in the field; develops numerous vehicles to highlight the latest peer-reviewed preventive research; and has participated in scientific research within child care settings. Child Safe Policies: CEHN provides education and training to national and state level agencies and organizations in best practices in children's environmental health; forms strategic partnerships to advocate for protective child policy; and provides training and education on climate change and its health effects on children. Training -- helping organizations, health care providers, and individuals find the information and resources necessary to address children's environmental health problems. Especially targeting high-risk populations. Climate Change -- networking with, training, engaging, and coordinating key stakeholder populations around children's health and global climate change.