- Sunday, October 30, 2005 : EnviroHealthAction
EnviroHealthAction is an education and action center that provides an online community for health professionals and others interested in environmental health. It is designed to provide busy professionals with the opportunity to access important resources and deliver valuable input to policymakers. The website is powered by the Physicians for Social Responsibility.
- Sunday, October 30, 2005 : Collaborative Health on the Environment
The Collaborative Health on the Environment's [CHE] website also features an article on the history, elements, and implementation of the Precautionary Principle.
- Sunday, October 30, 2005 : Breast Cancer Fund
The Breast Cancer Fund has a summary of the Bay Area Precautionary Principle efforts.
- Sunday, October 30, 2005 : Science and Environmental Health Network
The Science and Environmental Health Network's website features a section devoted to the Precautionary Principle including background papers and publications.
- Sunday, October 30, 2005 : Breast Cancer Fund (TBCF)
The Breast Cancer Fund (TBCF) identifies and advocates for elimination of environmental and other preventable causes of the disease.
- Sunday, October 30, 2005 : Bay Area Working Group on the Precautionary Principle
The Bay Area Working Group on the Precautionary Principle is a diverse collaborative of organizations and individuals that promotes and implements precautionary action to protect health and the environment. The website is dedicated to the Precautionary Principle and features ways to take action.
- Sunday, October 30, 2005 : Industrial Pollution Begins in the Womb
The Environmental Work Group recently published this study about the toxins found in blood cord samples. It has also published studies regarding adults' body burdens of toxic chemicals, and it maintains a data base of toxic personal care products manufactured for use by adults and babies.
- Sunday, October 30, 2005 : UCSF’s Report on Asthma and the Environment
UCSF's Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit published a report on Asthma and the Environment. The report includes information on the relationship between asthma and infections, the indoor environment, outdoor air pollution and chemicals in the workplace and home.
- HCOP Contact Us.
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- Making all city agencies protect children’s health—Preventing childhood lead poisoning. HCOP believes that everyone serving families and their children are responsible for protecting children from environmental hazards. With that principle in mind, HCOP engages in several efforts to encourage city agencies to help prevent children's exposures to toxic chemicals in facilities controlled by city agencies and in the homes of children they serve.
- Promoting the Precautionary Principle. San Francisco is at the forefront of the countrywide movement to adopt the Precautionary Principle to help reduce exposures to environmental toxins. The basic premise of the precautionary principle is that when an activity raises credible threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken to prevent harm even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically.
- Protecting low-income children in SF’s public schools from exposures to environmental hazards. HCOP is working to improve indoor air quality and prevent children's exposure to toxins in San Francisco public schools. Most schools in San Francisco are old, and many are poorly maintained. The District has 113 separate school sites. It is a very large real estate operation. Many of the schools are deteriorating, contain poor indoor air quality and need substantial renovation. These schools are full of environmental toxins, including lead, asbestos, solvents, cleansers, and toxic building materials and more.
- Healthy Children Organizing Project.
- Protecting children and families from exposure to environmental toxins in their homes. Making housing healthy is a key to eliminating lead poisoning and many other health problems caused by children's exposures to environmental contaminants. One of our major strategies over the past 13 years is the development and implementation of local legislation to make older private housing and child care centers lead-safe for children.
- Protecting low-income children from exposures to environmental hazards in SF Recreation and Parks. HCOP's collaborative work with the Recreation and Parks Department [Department] and child care providers provides an excellent example of HCOP's success in getting city agencies to make their facilities lead-safe for small children. The Department has over 200 facilities, almost all of which were painted with lead. HCOP began working with the Department in 1991.
- Our Work.
- Parks and Recreation Report 2003. Learn about the clean-up status on the parks you use! View the Parks and Rec Report to get the Status of Clean up Efforts as of December 15, 2003. Note that this is not a comprehensive list of all of the recreational park sites in San Francisco, but it is a list of the ones used by the child care providers who replied to the survey.
- About Us. The Healthy Children Organizing Project (HCOP) is a 15-year-old San Francisco-based advocacy and "community education by-the-community" organization. Our goal is to protect young children from environmental hazards in San Francisco's low-income communities.
- Our History of Success. Since 1991, HCOP has been at the forefront of protecting young children from environmental hazards in San Francisco. Here is a partial list of our recent accomplishments in creating a safer environment for children.
