Children's Health Outreach Toolkit
Spread Awareness
October is Children's Health Month!
Find factsheets, infographics, messaging, and more created for a variety of audiences and platforms about protecting children’s environmental health.
Children's Health Publications
Browse EPA's published resources about children's environmental health on a range of topics including children's health activities at EPA, information for schools and educators, children's health disparities, healthy homes, and more.
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Children's Health Messaging
Use this messaging to help spread information and resources about children's environmental health.
Tag @epa and incorporate hashtags when using social media to stay connected: #ChildHealth, #ProtectKidsHealth.
Protecting Children Where They Live
- Protect your kid’s health now and into the future. Check your home for pollutants like lead, mold, radon, and VOC sources.
- Maintain a healthy home and nurture healthy kids! Properly filter air and ventilate spaces with clean air. Use chemicals in the home cautiously, smartly and according to labeled directions.
- Prepare for the unexpected! Learn about best practices for protecting children during an environmental emergency like a smoke event or heat wave.
- Kids with asthma breathe easier in clean homes! Try supplementing HVAC filtration with an air cleaner and never smoke indoors. Learn about other asthma triggers.
- Little changes make big differences in children's health. Switch to a Safer Choice cleaning products for science-based reassurance.
Protecting Children Where They Learn
- Healthy schools = successful students! EPA has resources to support schools and childcare facilities that are looking to improve their learning environment.
- Good indoor air quality (IAQ) in schools can foster better learning and improve student health. Schools can use the IAQ Tools for Schools to get started.
- Pollutants could be lurking in schools making it difficult for children to focus, learn, and thrive. Learn what to look out for!
- Bright minds need fresh clean air! Schools can participate in the Air Quality Flag Program reduce exposure to air pollution, while keeping kids active and aware of their air quality.
- Schools next to heavily traveled roadways may experience polluted air, but they can act now to help protect the health of their students and staff!
Protecting Children Where They Play
- Climate change is affecting the world where our children play and grow. Learn more about how these changes can affect children's health, and what actions you can take now to protect them.
- Play smartly! Vector-borne diseases, like Lyme disease, are on the rise. Learn how to protect children from ticks, mosquitoes and other pests.
- Asthma cases are on the rise affecting how children play and live. Climate change leads to more asthma cases in children. You can act now to ensure their healthy future!
- Climate-smart kids are future leaders! Empower them with lessons about resilience and environmental care.
- Avoid letting children play outside on days with the poorest air quality (e.g., orange- or red-colored air quality alerts). You can check the Air Quality Index forecast for your area.
Children and Their Unique Vulnerability
- Children are often more vulnerable than adults to environmental hazards. They eat, breathe, and drink more relative to their body mass than adults do, and their biological systems, like their immune system, are still developing.
- Want to start learning about children’s environmental health, but don’t know where to start? Start here! This short video discusses why children are more vulnerable than adults to sources of environmental contaminants.