Toolkit

Find tools, resources, and information you need.

• Air modelling
  U.S. EPA's website contains info on the models and how to get them and use them
  www.epa.gov/ttn/scram/
  
  
• Mercury in Fish
  Two organizations have developed online tools that calculate user-specific safe mercury levels using health-based guidelines
  • Tabulator: www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/tuna.asp
  • Calculator: www.ewg.org/issues/mercury/20031209/calculator.php
  
  
  
• The Environmental Defense Fund Scorecard site has a great deal of information on pollution that can search by zipcode, pollutant and more
  www.scorecard.org/
  
  
• Fish Advisories
  U.S. EPA's site has a database of all fish advisories as well as maps of graphics
  www.epa.gov/ost/fish/advisories/index.html
  
  
• Ohio EPA's guide on trimming sport-caught fish
  www.epa.state.oh.us/dsw/fishadvisory/trimming.html
  
  
• Online Health and Safety in the Arts Library
  http://tigger.uic.edu/sph/glakes/harts/HARTS_library/index.htm
  
  
• Print your own booklet and Children's Environmental Health - from CDC's National Center for Environmental Health
  This Web site is based on Take Your Children to Work Day, a booklet that NCEH created for its employees' children to describe the important work their parents do to promote health and quality of life.
  www.cdc.gov/nceh/kids/99kidsday/default.htm
  
  
• Search ATSDR's Toxicological Profiles for information on exposure and toxicity
  www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxpro2.html
  
  
• EnviroFacts
  find Superfund sites, compliance records of facilities, and TRI information and more, all by zipcode, city or county
  www.epa.gov/enviro/index.html
  
  
• U.S. EPA's Toxicity and Exposure Assessment for Children's Health (TEACH)
  This searchable database contains overviews of scientific literature in the field of children's environmental health.
  www.epa.gov/teach/
  
  
• State of Michigan's Toxic Substances Information Directory
  http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-2945_5105-80557--,00.html
  
  
• Methamphetamine Labs - Minnesota's Department of Health:http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/meth/
  • lab cleanup guidance: http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/meth/lab/labcleanup.html
    
    
• Turning Point Performance Management National Excellence Collaborative
  Public Health Performance Management Curriculum

Children's Health

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  http://www.aap.org
  
  
• Center for Health, Environment and Justice
  http://www.chej.org
  
  
• Children's Environmental Health Network
  http://www.cehn.org
  
  
• Children's Health Environmental Coalition
  http://www.checnet.org
  
  
• Environmental Working Group
  http://www.foodnews.org
  
  
• Healthy Schools Network
  http://www.healthyschools.org
  
  
• National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health & Safety
  http://research.marshfieldclinic.org/children/default.htm
  
  
• Pesticide Action Network of North America
  http://www.panna.org
  
  
• Physicians for Social Responsibility
  http://www.psr.org/
  
  
• National Center for Environmental Health
  http://www.cdc.gov/nceh
  
  
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
  http://www.niehs.nih.gov
  
  
• Illinois Department of Public Health Children's Product Safety
  http://www.idph.state.il.us/childsafety/childsafetyhome.htm
  
  
• World Health Organization
  http://who.int
  
  
• United Nations Children's Fund
  http://www.unicef.org
  
  
• Pan American Health Organization
  http://www.paho.org
  
  
• International Joint Commission
  http://www.ijc.org