Resources
SEET has compiled a list of resources to educate child care operators on ways they can reduce environmental exposures on or near their property and to assist operators in locating relevant environmental documents.
- Louisiana Department of Health's Early Care and Education Sites: Learn how to make sure yours is safe
- Louisiana Department of Health’s Environmental Public Health Tracking: Learn about data and information on health outcomes, the environment, population, and exposures.
- ATSDR Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education Program Homepage
- ATSDR's CSP Disaster Recovery Supplement
- ATSDR Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education Guidance Manual, Chapter 4: Former Use and Nearby Sites
- ATSDR Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education Guidance Manual, Chapter 5: How to Build a Program – Models for a Safe ECE Siting Program
- ATSDR Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education Guidance Manual, Chapter 6: Safer ECE Program Siting Program Tools
- ATSDR Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education Guidance Manual, Appendix F: Activities of Concern With Former or Adjacent Uses to a Site
- EPA Smart School Siting Tool: Use this tool to get ideas on how to work together to align ECE program siting with community development
- EPA Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program: Learn about toxic chemicals in your area and how they are being managed
- EPA Envirofacts: Find data about environmental hazards in your area
- EPA Superfund: Find contaminated sites that are being cleaned
- CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking Network: Find data on environmental health issues in your area
- EPA: Drinking Water Best Management Practices for Schools and Child Care Facilities with their Own Drinking Water Source
- EPA: Drinking Water Best Management Practices for Schools and Child Care Facilities Served by Municipal Water Systems
- EPA: Lead and Copper Rule: Quick Reference Guide for Schools and Child Care Facilities that are Regulated Under the Safe Drinking Water Act
- EPA: Drinking Water Contaminants — Standards and Regulations