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HIN is now accepting applications for the

8th Annual

IAQ Tools for Schools Symposium and the

fifth Annual

NEA HIN Pre-Symposium Training

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 [email protected]

• 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

[email protected]