Local Association Opportunities
Does your district provide the best attainable indoor environment to support health, teaching and learning? As an association, you can play an important role in advocating for positive changes.
Provide information about indoor air quality and support teacher efforts.
- Work with the Healthy Air, Healthy Kids project to provide information and distribute materials to your teachers about indoor air quality, asthma triggers and simple classroom interventions to improve classroom conditions.
- Help address unresolved indoor air quality problems at the school sites.
- Negotiate health and safety language in district contracts.
Promote healthy indoor air quality practices and policies in the district.
- Support integrated pest management programs that use the least toxic chemicals in conjunction with non-chemical techniques.
- Promote the use of less toxic, environmentally preferable products that benefit both the user and the environment.
- Encourage the district to implement a comprehensive indoor air qualitWork with school nurses, parents, and community-based organizations including Community Action to Fight Asthma (CAFA) to improve indoor air quality conditions for the entire school community.y management program such as the U.S. Environment Protection Agency’s Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Tools for Schools Kit that combines district, teacher, and school district personnel activities to promote a healthier school environment.
Healthy Air, Healthy Kids has developed a DVD that details how your association, schools, and district can easily improve IAQ. Order a FREE copy of the DVD today and start making important changes in your schools.