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Building Healthy Communities for Children: The Physical and Social Environments

September 26-27, 2005

This conference on environmental health examined critical aspects of environments affecting the health and well-being of children from pre-conception to adolescence. Conference plenary and concurrent sessions were organized around three broad themes: the natural environment, the built environment and the social environment and around critical life stages. Special attention was given to the diverse social contexts in which children live, learn, and play.




September 26, 2005


Conference introduction

John Finnegan (Audio)

Keynote address

"Environmental Justice for all Children" Dr. Robert Bullard (View Presentation)

Plenary sessions

"Conference Framework: An Eco-Developmental Model" Joan Patterson (View Presentation)

"Translating Data to Policy and Programs" David Wallinga (View Presentation)

"Social Adversity and Developmental Sequelae" Dana Johnson (View Presentation)

"Spirit, Soul, House and Home" Thomas Fulton (View Presentation)

Concurrent sessions

"Fetal and Infant Exposure to Alcohol and Tobacco: Interventions to reduce prenatal smoking and Environmental tobacco exposure of newborns" Deborah Hennrikus

"Promoting health behavior change to prevention alcohol exposed pregnancies" Esther Maki (View Presentation)

"The skinny on fats: healthier children through better, less toxic food choices" David Wallinga

"Mother's milk feeding: natures'approach to primary prevention" Laura Duckett

"Sensitive brains, lasting harm: environmental neurotixins and learning and developmental disabilities" Kitty Christensen (View Presentation)

"Public Health Benefits to Minnesota from decreased methylmercury exposure to developing brains" Joshua Schenck

"Child maltreatment prevention: balancing practice, performance, accountability and outcome measures" Gay Baken and Patricia Adams (View Presentation)

"A healthy start begins before the baby is born" Coral Garner (View Presentation)

September 27, 2005

Plenary session

"The Effects of Child Maltreatment on Biological and Psychological Development: Implications for Preventive Interventions" Dante Cicchett (View Presentation)

Gary Cunningham, Respondent (Audio)

Concurrent sessions

"The DREAMS Project: social and environmental risks and developmental outcimes in inner city preschoolers" Catherine Jordan and Steven Hughes (View Presentation)

"Family, School and Community Influences on Children's Food Choices
Children's food environments" Jamie Stang (View Presentation)

"Observations of parent-child co-shoppers in supermarkets - Maureen O-Dougherty" Mary Story, and Jamie Stang (View Presentation)

"Building a Place of Acceptance for Children with Special Health Care Needs" Diane Hovey (View Presentation)

"Building High Quality Early Care Environments: The Minnesota Early Literacy Training Program" Scott McConnell (View Presentation)

"The Healthy Environment for Early Learning (HEEL experience Greater Minneapolis Day Care Association" Ed Petsche, Marcia Zeimes and Lisa Smestad (View Presentation)

"Planning for the Built Environment: Hennepin County experience" Karen Nikolai (View Presentation)

"Ramsey County experience" Jan Parker and Sara Merz (View Presentation)

"Regulatory Actions to Ensure Environmental Quality - US EPA Region 5: programs and tools to promote children's environmental health" Edward Master

"Perspective of a Minnesota legislator" Karen Clark

"The positive school climate team: a trans-disciplinary approach to education reform" Ellen Nacik, Goe Groves, and Julie Young-Burns

"A public health iniative to reduce bullying in middle schools" Cathy Stahl (View Presentation)

"The Built Environment and its Impact on Children's Health: How can we design for sustainability?" Christine Ziebold (View Presentation)

Forging environmental health standards in Minnesota architecture or children - Doug Pierce

"Designing Communities So Children Can Live Active Lives: Active living and the built environment" Ann Forsyth (View Presentation)

"Visual Perceptions of an inner city childhood environment" Corliss Wilson Outley (View Presentation)

"Youth, community Design, and Physical Activity" Kevin Krizek (View Presentation)

"Effects of Media on Social and Physical Health" Michael Mann
(View Presentation)

"Homelessness and its Effect on Children: Opportunities for Overcoming Trauma Through Supportive Housing" Ellen Hart-Shegos and Abigail Gewirtz

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