Through a 2007 RA NBI (#10) and a cooperative
agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
the NEA Health
Information Network (NEA HIN) will provide funding to send
up to 12-15 teams of NEA members and UniServ staff to the 8th
annual EPA Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Tools for Schools (TfS)
National Symposium and 5th annual NEA HIN Pre-Symposium training.
This year the IAQ TfS Symposium and Pre-Symposium training
will be held December 5-8th in Washington, D.C.
NEA HIN will again conduct a Pre-Symposium training on December
5th to address IAQ issues from the union/association perspective,
including how to deal with a difficult or unsupportive administration.
This day will be followed by EPA’s IAQ TfS Symposium,
December 6-8th, which centers on IAQ TfS, a nationwide initiative
to help school officials assess, resolve, and prevent IAQ problems
and reduce exposure to asthma triggers in school facilities.
Each year NEA members and staff including teachers, ESP, and
UniServ representatives join school board officials, administrators,
parents, nurses, facility managers and others at the conference
to discuss improving the IAQ in our nation’s schools.
Innovative workshops will be offered on conducting school walkthroughs,
mold remediation, green cleaning, asthma friendly schools,
radon, and more.
Please note:
•This is a competitive application process to
attend EPA’s
IAQ TfS Symposium and the NEA HIN Pre-Symposium
training. The submission of an application to
NEA HIN does
not guarantee acceptance to attend.
• Complete Application Packages should be submitted via email
on or before Tuesday, September 25th to
Jennie Young at jyoung@nea.org
• Teams must submit an Application
Package which includes a Team Application
AND an
Individual Team Member Application
for each team member. Individuals cannot apply
to receive funding. Applications submitted by individuals will NOT be considered.
• Available funding will cover the cost of travel (airfare,
train fare, mileage), conference registration fees, substitute
teacher reimbursement, hotel (two persons/per room), other
incidentals (taxi fares, gratuities, parking, etc.) on days
of travel and during the NEA HIN Pre-Symposium training and
EPA’s IAQ TfS Symposium. For approximate
costs see Application
Guidelines.
• Individuals or teams of NEA members/staff
who have secured funding from another source
(state/local association
funds, personal funds, etc.), and do not
wish to compete for funding through this process, may register to attend.
See Application
Guidelines for details.
Application Guidelines – Find
out who can apply, how to apply, funding details,
important dates, and more!
Please
read before submitting an Application Package.
• Application
Guidelines(MS Word)
• Application
Guidelines (PDF) (Acrobat Reader required)
Application Package - Download the Team Application and Individual
Team Member Application!
*Applications must be typed using
the Microsoft Word “Form” feature.
Handwritten applications will not be accepted.
Instructions on using this feature can be found
in the Application
Guidelines.
Team
Application - (MS Word)
Individual
Team Member Application - (MS Word)
2006
NEA HIN Pre-Symposium Agenda - Download to
review last year’s agenda.*This
year’s
agenda will be made available at a later date.
For more information on the EPA IAQ TfS Symposium, including
the IAQ
TfS Symposium Agenda go
to www.iaqsymposium.com. For more information on EPA's IAQ TfS program visit www.epa.gov/iaq/schools
Questions? Contact:
Jennie Young, Senior Project Coordinator
NEA Health Information Network
1201 16th Street, NW
Suite 216
Washington, DC 20036
202-822-7481
jyoung@nea.org
