[Summit] Children's Health Workshop At Environmental Justice Forum This Saturday

[Hope for Health]

Dear Summit Neighbors,

I hope that some of you might be interested
in the event described below in a press release 
I sent out this morning. 

Blessings, 
Liberty G
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CHILDREN’S HEALTH WORKSHOP ADDRESSES TOXIC TOYS, 
ASTHMA AND MORE AT FREE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
CONFERENCE THIS SATURDAY

As kids and their parents focus on Halloween fun,
Toxics Information Project (TIP) and other RI
organizations are planning an event designed to 
foster better health for all Rhode Islanders.  
The Environmental Justice Forum, at Johnson & 
Wales University’s Harborside Campus, from
9 a.m. to 3 p.m., will include workshops on 
The Air We Breathe, The Food We Eat, Where 
We Live, Work & Play, and Children’s Health.  
Skills Workshops & Planning Next Steps will 
round out the day.  

Spanish translators will be available throughout 
the forum, and a free lunch will be provided for 
all who register by November 1.  For more 
information or to register for the Forum contact 
Steven Fischbach, Community Lawyer at Rhode Island
Legal Services - 1-800-662-5034 extension 182 or 
by email at steve.fischbach at gmail.com

The Children’s Health Workshop will be led by
TIP Director, Liberty Goodwin, Steve Fischbach,
RI Legal Services, and Arelis Valerio, MD, AE-C,
Pediatric Health Educator.  Topics covered:  

What Are the Threats to Children’s Health from
Environmental Factors?  Why are children more
vulnerable?  Children and Asthma - about the 
disease and how it can be controlled. Children 
and Toxics: - connections to health conditions 
such as endocrine disruption, autism & cancer 
(and asthma).  Why is this an environmental 
justice issue?

Action, Options/Strategizing:  How can we reduce 
the risks to children’s health from the world 
around them?  Environmental toxins that can affect
children that are within our own control as 
consumers - household and personal care products -
require education on risks and alternatives. 
Environmental threats that are not by our own 
choice require public advocacy - diesel
emissions, toxic waste dumps, unhealthy school
buildings & pesticided playing fields.

Toxic chemicals in toys and baby bottles are 
both an advocacy AND consumer issue.  Watch 
for a major expansion of pertinent articles 
and links on the TIP website about this and 
other concerns as part of the new Kids & Toxics
Information Exchange project.  Some information 
is there already - more will be added from 
now through 2008.  

Visit:  www.toxicsinfo.org/TIPS_kids.htm
For more details about the Children’s Health 
Workshop & an agenda for the Forum, see:
www.toxicsinfo.org/kids/EJWorkshop.htm

Rhode Islanders of all incomes, races and 
ethnicities deserve to live in safe and healthy
communities.  This is an opportunity to learn 
what can be done to make homes and neighborhoods
healthier.  All who care about the environment, 
about justice, their health and the health of 
their children should attend this free
Environmental Justice Forum.  
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Liberty Goodwin, Director
Toxics Information Project    
P.O. Box 40441,
Providence, RI 02940
Tel. 401-351-9193
Website: www.toxicsinfo.org
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