Reduce Radon …for your children’s health

On Healthy Schools Day in Canada, CPCHE encourages parents, educators and others to take steps to ensure that children are not exposed to high levels of radon – a known risk factor for lung cancer – in the places where they live, play and learn. 

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Creating Healthy Home Environments: Top 5 Tips

CPCHE's new video, brochure and rack cards provide families and expectant parents with practical, low-cost tips for reducing children's exposures to toxic chemicals commonly found in the home.

Exploring the Connections Between Early Environmental Exposures and Chronic Disease

CPCHE is engaging with chronic disease prevention organizations and others to explore the links between fetal/childhood exposure to toxic substances and the later development of chronic disease.

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Renovate Right: How to make sure a home repair or energy upgrade is child healthy

Learn about 4 simple steps that contractors, do-it-yourselfers, homeowners and tenants can take to protect children from toxic exposures during and after energy efficiency upgrades and other home renovation projects.

CPCHE's Child Care Checklist

CPCHE's environmental health Checklist helps child care professionals, public health inspectors and parents identify ways to create healthier and "greener" early learning and child care environments for kids.

Featured resources

Creating Healthy Home Environments for Kids - Top 5 Tips video
Early Exposures and Chronic Disease - Scoping Review
brochure cover
Focus on Bisphenol A
Your child's skin may act more like a sponge than a shield
Advancing Environmental Health in Child Care Settings (70 pp)
Vision and Strategy for Children's Health and Environment in Canada (37 pp)
Report of CPCHE's National Policy Consultation (166 pp)
A Father's Day Report - Men, Boys and Environmental Health Threats (16 pp)

The Canadian Partnership for Children's Health and Environment (CPCHE) is a multi-sectoral collaboration of organizations with expertise in issues related to children, health, public health and the environment. CPCHE partners have been working together since 2001 to protect children's health from environmental pollutants and toxic chemicals by moving children's environmental health issues into the minds of decision-makers, service-provider organizations, individual practitioners, parents and the public.