Environment Breakout Group

  1. What subjects and issues:

1. Keep the same theme: Healthy Children, Living in a Safe Environment

2. Keep the same issues: Asthma/Lead/Pesticides/Consumer Product Safety

3. Other areas of focus under the issues are interrelated:

Under Asthma/Lead/Pesticides/Consumer Product safety

- Collection of existing data/ Fill in the gaps

- Housing (substandard housing)

- Second-hand smoke

- Air pollution : Ozone/Particulate Matter/ poor air quality triggers of asthma

- Health Information Access: How to penetrate schools, churches, community-based organizations, health clinics, health providers,

- Self-empowering communities

Under Consumer Product Safety (specifically)

Communicating and addressing consumer product safety issues to Latino communities (TV, radio, newspapers, )

Delivery mechanisms for communicating: food safety issues/recall of products/safety of household cleaning items

4. Other issues to consider:

- Water issues: Water Quality & Safety issues /Making information available to families: e.g. Arsenic in water

-Infectious Diseases: Immunizations/flu shots(adults)/TB/Malaria

2. What People should be at the table ?

  1. Office of Minority Health
  2. HHS Hispanic Health Initiative Representative
  3. HHS Hispanic Spokesperson
  4. Grass-root org. involvement in the planning of forum from beginning
  5. Env'l and state offices (investing in Hispanic outreach)
  6. Representatives from Administration (Whitman)
  7. NIH
  8. National Hispanic Leadership Agenda
  9. ALA
  10. USDA
  11. HHS Secretary/Surgeon General
  12. DOD
  13. Private Sector- Microsoft, Honeywell, Kellogg Foundation, Walmart, Any company adopting Healthy People 2010
  14. Religious groups.

 

3. What materials ?

1. Media Kit

2. Exhibit

 

4. What logistical considerations:

1. 2 day Forum to cover topics

2. Need simultaneous translation (Get help from S.Diego grass-root orgs., schools,/colleges)

 

5. What role for you?

  1. Plan Latino Night Out? Julius
  2. Partners- Self Reliance Foundation/ (SRF)/Children's Environmental Health

    3. Network(CEHN)

  3. Identify corporate sponsors: SRF
  4. Materials(brochures, pamphlets, videos,curriculums/pdf.files) :

EPA Pesticide Office/CEHN/NSC

Potential Speakers:

  1. Whitman
  2. Hispanic Caucus Rep.
  3. Local Congressman: Doug Ose
  4. Senator Clinton
  5. George Bush