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Building Healthy Communities for Children:
The Physical and Social Environments

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.

Monday, Sept. 26, 2005

Conference introduction:

John Finnegan
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Keynote address:

Dr. Robert Bullard
Environmental Justice for all Children
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Plenary sessions:

Joan Patterson
Conference Framework: An Eco-Developmental Model
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David Wallinga
Translating Data to Policy and Programs
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Dana Johnson
Social Adversity and Developmental Sequelae
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Thomas Fulton
Spirit, Soul, House and Home
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Concurrent sessions: (note: PowerPoints are not available for every session)

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
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Healthier Food Choices
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 - Exposure to Environmental Neurotoxins
Sensitive brains, lasting harm: environmental neurotixins and learning and developmental disabilities- Kitty Christensen
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Public Health Benefits to Minnesota from decreased methylmercury exposure to developing brains - Joshua Schenck

Reducing Early Exposure to Social Stress in the Family Environment
Child maltreatment prevention: balancing practice, performance, accountability and outcome measures - Gay Baken and Patricia Adams
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A healthy start begins before the baby is born - Coral Garner
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Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2005

Plenary session:

Dante Cicchetti
The Effects of Child Maltreatment on Biological and Psychological Development: Implications for Preventive Interventions
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Gary Cunningham, Respondent
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Concurrent sessions: (note: PowerPoints are not available for every session)

The DREAMS Project: social and environmental risks and developmental outcimes in inner city preschoolers - Katherine Jordan and Steven Hughes
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Family, School and Community Influences on Children's Food Choices
Children's food environments - Jamie Stang
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Observations of parent-child co-shoppers in supermarkets- Maureen O-Dougherty, Mary Story, and Jamie Stang
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Building a Place of Acceptance for Children with Special Health Care Needs - Diane Hovey
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Creating Healthy Environments for Early Learning
Building High Quality Early Care Environments: The Minnesota Early Literacy Training Program - Scott McConnell
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The Healthy Environment for Early Learning (HEEL experience Greater Minneapolis Day Care Association - Ed Petsche, Marcia Zeimes and Lisa Smestad
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Planning for the Built Environment
Hennepin County experience - Karen Nikolai
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Ramsey County experience- Jan Parker and Sara Merz
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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

Promoting a Positive Social Environment at School
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
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The Built Environment and its Impact on Children's Health
How can we design for sustainability? - Christine Ziebold
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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
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Visual Perceptions of an inner city childhood environment - Corliss Wilson Outley
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Youth, community Design, and Physical Activity - Kevin Krizek
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Effects of Media on Social and Physical Health- Michael Mann
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Homelessness and its Effect on Children: Opportunities for Overcoming Trauma Through Supportive Housing - Ellen Hart-Shegos and Abigail Gewirtz