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To secure a healthy, just and sustainable future for all children.

Guiding Principles

The American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Academy of Sciences have found that children are uniquely susceptible to hazardous environmental exposures. In addition, they have determined that many of these exposures – exposures that may occur before conception and continue through late adolescence – can cause or contribute to disease and disrupt development, learning and behavior. Based on these scientific findings, we unanimously support the following Principles:

• All children have the right to clean air, safe food and drinking water, and consumer and commercial products free of environmental health and safety threats;
• All children have the right to healthy homes, healthy child-care facilities, healthy schools and healthy communities;
• All children and adults have the right to know about proven and potential hazards to their environmental health and safety.

It is our mutual responsibility to protect these rights and to act with precaution on decisions that could affect children's health and development.

These principles were adopted in 1999 by the Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment.

The  Partnership for Children’s Environmental Health coalesced following the  Children's Environmental Health Summit held in September 1999. The Summit,  co-convened by the Institute for Children's  Environmental Health (ICEH) (now the Initiative for Children’s  Environmental Health under CHE) and the Children's  Health Environmental Coalition (CHEC) (now Healthy Child, Healthy  World) was an invitational gathering for key leaders in government, academic  and community-based organizations committed to working on children's  environmental health concerns. The intention of this meeting was to map the  growing field of children's environmental health and to determine how we might  more effectively communicate, strategize and collaborate across sectors in  order to catalyze a strong and sustaining children's environmental health  movement.

The first joint action of the Partnership was to draft and adopt the Guiding Principles for Children's Environmental health (see above). ICEH facilitated the drafting process and served as the coordinator for the Partnership for 10 years. Now information and information relevant to the Partnership has been subsumed as part of the Initiative on Children's Environmental Health in 2009 when the Institute for Children's Environmental Health merged with Commonweal/CHE.