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This Toolkit is a user-friendly resource that helps ECE professionals transition to a ‘green' cleaning program. It is  designed to educate early care and education (ECE) directors, providers, parents, and child care regulators on health risks, including asthma, of commonly used cleaning products and antimicrobial pesticides. It will assist ECE programs in implementing a cleaning program that uses safer products and procedures.

The Toolkit includes a curriculum, fact sheets, posters, a checklist, and a wallet card. It educates child care providers on the risks of commonly used cleaning products and offers reduced-risk and nonchemical options.

The Toolkit was co-authored by Dr. Vickie Leonard with UC San Francisco’s Institute on Health and Aging (principal investigator), Carol Westinghouse with Informed Green Solutions and Dr. Asa Bradman with UC Berkeley’s Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health. It can be downloaded from the Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health website at: http://cerch.org/greencleaningtoolkit/.  Hardcopies can be ordered at the Informed Green Solutions website at: http://www.informedgreensolutions.org/?q=publications/green-cleaning-toolkit.

Does the change of season have you sniffling and sneezing inside your own home? Perhaps pollen, mold spores or other air pollutants have infiltrated from outdoors. The simplest way to address your allergy and asthma triggers is to make clean air in your home a priority.

In Wellapets, kids adopt their own Wellapet from the App Store, Google Play or Amazon Appstore, play games with it, collect gifts for its home and ultimately take care of their pet. Wellapets has been designed with clinician input such that care for the pet teaches kids what they need to know to manage their own asthma. 

Our educational content focuses on: controller inhaler technique and timing, trigger avoidance and symptom recognition and action according to an Asthma Action Plan.

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