The Campaign s overarching goal is the reduction and elimination of environmental hazards, which affect children s health. To achieve this goal our first focal point was to concentrate in schools, head start centers, childcare centers, recreational buildings, grounds and athletic fields.
Children spend a large part of their day at school.
To place them in settings that increase their risk of developing a preventable illness or learning disability is wrong and irresponsible. Instead of re-creating work that others have done the Childproofing Our Communities Campaign decided to adopt the following two statements of guiding principles around children, environmental chemical exposures and school environments, rather than author another version. These principals were written by the Partnership for Children s Health and the Environment and the Healthy Schools Network and widely adopted by organizations worldwide. Every child has a right to an environmentally safe and healthy learning environment which is clean and in good repair. Every child, parent and school employee has a right to know about environmental health issues and hazards in their school environment.