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EPA works in partnership with national organizations to promote the Indoor Air Quality Tools for School (IAQ TfS) Program. Contact our partners to learn more about their national, state, and local efforts.  For more links to partnerships and resources, see www.epa.gov/iaq/schools/links.html

American Association of School Administrators

The American Association of School Administrators (AASA) is the oldest and largest organization of school system leaders in the country, with access to every superintendent in the nation and affiliates in every state. For the past 30 years, AASA’s health-related efforts have centered on identifying the needs of children and working with school leaders, their boards, and their communities to address these needs. AASA has been involved in indoor air quality issues since 1992 and has been a long-time partner with EPA to promote healthy school environments. AASA provides outreach and education directly to schools and school districts through presentations, Web casts, and trainings, facilitates the AASA Urban Resource Coalition, a growing network of urban school districts, and recently published, "Schoolhouse in the Red: An Administrator’s Guide to Improving America’s School Facilities and Environment," an updated publication that re-examines the state of school facilities and the legal, financial and health-based impact on children and public schools. AASA continues to encourage the adoption of IAQ Tools for Schools in the quest to prepare children for school and prepare schools for children. AASA is committed to removing the barriers that prevent children from succeeding.

American Federation of Teachers

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Educational Foundation is one of the original sponsors of the IAQ TfS Kit. They conduct and sponsor studies, training, and research in education and related fields, with the objective of improving the lives of their members and improving the institutions in which they work. AFT focuses their efforts on advocating for policies that promote healthy environments and training members to effectively implement these policies. AFT develops model IAQ programs consistent with IAQ TfS in urban and rural school districts. In addition, AFT hosts annual trainings for bus drivers and other school employees to promote implementation of anti-idling school bus policies.

American Lung Association

The American Lung Association's mission is "to prevent lung disease and promote lung health." A non-profit organization comprised of both volunteers and paid staff, the Lung Association is the leading non-profit organization in the United States providing asthma education with special emphasis on pediatric and school-based asthma initiatives.

Through a partnership with EPA and the Lung Association's network of 60 constituents and affiliates who carry out community-based indoor environmental protection programs at the state and local levels, the Lung Association educates and reaches children and their families in diverse, underserved communities. Since indoor air quality and asthma are closely linked, the Lung Association has a special interest and commitment to promoting healthy indoor environments. For more than a decade, the American Lung Association has been implementing its childhood asthma management program, Open Airways for Schools (OAS). In addition, over the last several years the ALA has been promoting EPA's Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools Program as a companion to OAS and as part of their comprehensive Asthma Friendly Schools Initiative: programs which play an important role in protecting children's health and environment in schools.

Association of School Business Officials International

Founded in 1910, the Association of School Business Officials International (ASBO) is a professional organization with more than 6,000 members. ASBO provides programs and services to promote the highest standards of school business management practices, professional growth, and the effective use of educational resources. ASBO was an original sponsor of the IAQ Tools for Schools Kit in 1995 and has continued to work closely with EPA through the years to facilitate adoption of sound IAQ management practices in schools across the country. Building on these activities, ASBO launched their innovative “Resident Practitioner” program in 2004. The Practitioner serves as a peer educator to provide practical information, resources, and technical assistance that allows school business officials to implement the IAQ Tools for Schools Program effectively in their districts.

The Council of Educational Facility Planners International

The Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI) is the only professional organization whose principle purpose is improving the places where children learn. The Council functions as the world-wide convening organization to share knowledge, experiences, and best practices of planning, designing, and building learning environments that center a community and enhance student achievement. CEFPI embraces all stakeholders interested and committed to building healthy, safe, high performing school buildings and stronger communities. The Council focuses on opportunities and possibilities for learners of all ages.

Healthy Schools Network

The Healthy Schools Network (HSN) is a national environmental health not for profit organization, centered on children, and dedicated to assuring every child and school employee an environmentally safe and healthy school through work on research, information sharing, advocacy and coalition-building. Healthy Schools Network promotes the development of national and state policies and regulations which will improve the conditions of school facilities and promote children's environmental-occupational health in their "workplaces" -- the classroom. HSN collaborates with a wide range of national health, environment, education partners and parent groups to prevent and to intervene early to address environmental exposures that lead to chronic illnesses in children and adults. HSN offers annual meetings, national conference calls, technical assistance and collaborative projects such as National Healthy Schools Day. HSN coalition-builidng has created a network of a dozen state-based organizations concerned with the environmental health in schools.

National Association of School Nurses

The National Association of School Nurses (NASN) is a specialty nursing organization that represents school nurses. Organized to unite school nurses, NASN’s core purpose is to advance the delivery of professional school health services to promote optimal learning in students. With offices in Castle Rock, Colorado, and Scarborough, Maine, it has over 12,000 members from 49 states, the District of Columbia, and several foreign countries. In partnership with EPA, NASN provides state and local workshops to train school nurses to deliver Managing Asthma Triggers: Keeping Students Healthy, a modular program focused on recognizing and managing environmental asthma triggers. This program, developed by NASN with an EPA grant, educates school personnel, students, and parents about indoor environmental asthma triggers in schools and at home. It promotes the use of and provides action items from IAQ Tools for Schools to reduce indoor asthma exposures in the school setting. NASN tracks the number of schools implementing IAQ Tools for Schools and the effectiveness of the Managing Asthma Triggers: Keeping Students Healthy program.

National Education Association - Health Information Network

The National Education Association (NEA) is the nation’s largest independent labor association, representing 2.7 million education employees in public schools and institutions of higher education throughout the United States. The NEA Health Information Network (NEA HIN) was created in 1987 to serve as the not-for-profit health affiliate of NEA. The mission of the NEA HIN is to improve the health and safety of school personnel and students by providing the school community with vital and timely health information that will increase teacher quality and student achievement. NEA HIN provides information and tools for practicing healthy behaviors, making healthy decisions, and advocating for adequate health protections for its members and the students they serve. NEA HIN achieves this through the development and implementation of trainings and other skills building events; tailored publications, electronic resources, and tools; and linking school employees, students, and their communities with information and resources on critical public health issues. One of NEA HIN’s top issues remains indoor environmental health and safety issues. NEA HIN aims to create a safe and healthy environment conducive to learning and teaching by reducing exposure to IAQ problems in America's public schools. To fulfill their mission, NEA HIN provides its members with resources and training on ways to improve IAQ in schools through organizing local and statewide collaboration and the use of IAQ management plans such as the EPA’s IAQ Tools for Schools Program.

National Environmental Health Association

The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) was first founded in 1937 and currently has over 5,000 members. NEHA sponsors a variety of programs that are all in keeping with the association's mission to “advance the environmental health and protection professional for the purpose of providing a healthful environment for all.” NEHA offers seven national credential programs related to environmental health and safety, conducts an Annual Educational Conference and Exhibition, sponsors technical workshops, publishes the widely respected and peer reviewed Journal of Environmental Health, supports professional continuing education, and functions as a one-stop-shop for publications that provides NEHA members with education in virtually every area of the environmental field. NEHA offers additional services ranging from networking to committee participation opportunities to the development of positions on timely and serious environmental concerns. NEHA is a long-time supporter of EPA’s Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools Program and other agency programs that address environmental health and safety issues.

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