This website and book not only advocates to keep our children healthy but also give great tips about helping keep the world healthy. They have a book that is a user-friendly and practical lifestyle guide about how to reduce toxic exposure in our homes, our new book is a perfect resource of credible and easy steps to creating a healthier environment and lifestyle for all stages of parenting.It provides links to federal and state laws regarding health, gives chemical profiles on harmful chemicals that are in household products, a blog, ways to donate, volunteer, and become a member.
Purpose and Goals
- Expand awareness and understanding of environmental hazards to children's health
- Help the public learn about healthier practices, solutions, and products in the marketplace
- Encourage daily action and informed lifestyle choices
- Create standards and policies for safer products, foods, materials, and chemicals used in the home – promoting safer options and new alternatives
- Advocate for and support corporate policies and governmental legislation that protect children from environmental risks
- Engage communities to make wise choices and responsible decisions so families can flourish
how can this website increase awareness in the community? Would this be a useful tool in the classroom, as a parent, community member? How would you utilize this website/program?
I like websites like these that call for not only change in the self, but call for action in the community. It is important to not only be a healthy individual but encourage others to do the same, as well as encourage law makers to make changes to allow for everyone to have the same opportunities. As a teacher, I would use this site to emphasize healthy eating and lifestyle choices. As a parent, I would use this site to get ideas and information for my family so that my children will not only hear about healthy lifestyles, but will have seen it modeled and practice it themselves. As a member of the community, I would use this site to find out ways to be an advocate for the community and be active in my role as a citizen.
ReplyDeleteI really liked thed websited because it provides numerous resources for educators and families. . I liked how the originators of the site made sure to address whole communities and not only students or teachers. By providing information to all family members and also having easy access to government websites and blogs, those who use it benefit emensely since they are able to get information from a single site.
ReplyDeleteWow, what a great site! I'm definitely going to bookmark this one, as I feel like the concepts it addresses are so important for teaching children, as well as raising them. Also, with the increasing push toward green living and sustainability, using natural products and protecting children from toxins are finally getting the attention they deserve. Great resource.
ReplyDeleteThis site definitely seemed geared toward the users. Sometimes sites like this have all the right tools, but it is difficult to find what you need. I think the as a teacher I can use this resource in my classroom to educate my students and share what this is so important. I think that this resource is very useful in a community sense because it is very user friendly, and awareness should be brought to the community, not only the classroom. This is something that will bring awareness to the community because of the subject matter, and I would think that it would be my job to make people aware that this out there.
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