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11th Annual EPA IAQ Tools for Schools Symposium
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8th Annual NEA HIN Pre-Symposium
January 12-15, 2011 ~ Washington, DC

11th Annual EPA IAQ Tools for Schools Symposium

and

8th Annual NEA HIN Pre-Symposium

January 12-15, 2011 ~ Washington, DC

Through a 2010 RA new business item (NBI #22) and a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the NEA Health Information Network (NEA HIN) will provide funding to send 11-15 teams of NEA members and UniServ staff to the 11th annual EPA Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools (IAQ TfS) National Symposium and 8th annual NEA HIN Pre-Symposium. This year’s events will be held January 12-15, 2011, in Washington, D.C.

The Symposium will once again be preceded by NEA HIN’s one-day Pre-Symposium on January 12. This event will focus on how to organize around the issue of poor indoor environmental quality (IEQ) as a local association. Topics such as forming health and safety committees, conducting school walkthroughs, administering health and hazard surveys, building coalitions and how to deal with a difficult or unsupportive administration will be discussed.

The Pre-Symposium will be followed by EPA’s IAQ TfS Symposium, January 13-15, 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 teachers, education support professionals (ESPs), UniServ staff, school board members, parents, facilities managers, and others attend to discuss improving IAQ in our nation’s schools. Innovative sessions will be offered on high performance schools, pest management, green cleaning, mold, radon, and more