Healthy Environment/ Healthy Springfield: Call for Ideas
PRESS RELEASE: The Healthy Environment/Healthy Springfield CARE Project (HEHS) calls on Springfield’s organizations, churches and groups to submit ideas for an environmental education event that they would be willing to host. The proposed event may be a forum, community dialogue or specific educational presentation.
Up to twelve, 250 dollar grants will be given to groups, organizations and associations that suggest the most compelling environmental/health issues to consider and are willing to host that event. HEHS will work with the winning organizations to provide expert presenters, facilitators and educational materials necessary for the event. Winning organizations need only provide the meeting space, the outreach and the people.
The goal of these forums is to raise awareness around environmental conditions in Springfield, identify community needs and develop solutions that improve people’s lives.
Topics may include:
· Brownfields
· Air quality
· Water quality
· Abandoned buildings or other landscape issues
· Gardening
· Transportation
· Climate change & environmental crisis
· Indoor environmental/health issues
· Youth or elder concerns
· School environmental conditions.
· Food availability and quality
· Community health concerns
· Outdoor recreation and safety.
Feel free to draw from this list or suggest your own issue to consider.
HEHS is a local coalition of community, city and public health organizations, dedicated to community-driven solutions to environmental problems. HEHS is co-sponsored by Partners for a Healthier Community and the Pioneer Valley Asthma Coalition. We are funded by the US EPA.
Please contact Dr. Thomas Taaffe at thomas.taaffe@baystatehealth.