Two projects in the Central Valley aimed at protecting children from environment health hazards were awarded $198,000 of grants on Wednesday. “Safeguarding the health of children is one of our most important responsibilities, and an issue that is very dear to me,” said Jared Blumenfeld, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest, in a release. “This funding will provide critical tools such as information, training and education to communities that are most in need.”
The Building Community Capacity to Monitor, Track, and Address Environmental Health Hazards and Improve Children’s Health Outcomes in California’s San Joaquin Valley project in Kern and Tulare counties is conducted by the Pesticide Action Network of North America. The project received $98,000 to assist with its work to “monitor, track, and address environmental health issues that impact children.”
Farmworker Justice’s Healthy Fields, Healthy Kids in the Central Valley, central Florida and areas along the U.S.-Mexico border in Yuma County of Arizona received $100,000. A total of $357,999 was granted to four projects.
The other two projects were Expansion of Outreach under Center for the Health Assessment of the Mothers and Children of Salinas with the UC Berkeley—Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health and the Community-Based Healthy Child Care Program put on by Sonora Environmental Research Institute.