LDA is building a nationwide network of members and affiliate offices working to protect children's health and reduce the incidence of learning disabilities in future generations. You don't need to be a science expert to join this effort. You just need to believe that kids deserve to play, grow and learn in a healthy environment.
LDA's Healthy Children Project started with a small group of affiliates that have since developed great expertise in children's environmental health issues and in conveying LDA's concerns to policy makers and the public. These affiliates include LDA of California, Michigan, Maine, Minnesota, New York, New Jersey and Oregon. In 2007 and 2008, another 10 affiliate offices have begun working with LDA's national HCP coordinator on children's environmental health initiatives.
In the last five years, LDA affiliates and members have helped to win passage of state legislation to keep toxic chemicals out of children's products, require testing and prioritizing of toxic chemicals, create green chemistry and green purchasing programs, and limit or ban pesticide use in and around schools. LDA members have held environmental health forums, produced guides to healthy homes and schools and educated thousands of people about toxic threats to healthy brain development. We need you to join us in this crucial effort.