Protecting Children's Health and Safety

1,000 Days—As the leading nonprofit organization working to ensure women and children in the U.S. and around the world have the healthiest first 1,000 days, they fight for policies and programs that provide moms and babies with access to good nutrition, the ability to meet their breastfeeding goals, community and workplace supports, and comprehensive health care. When it comes to nutrition, 1,000 Days works with policymakers, parents and caregivers, and other stakeholders to ensure all moms and babies have the nutrition assistance and information they need for a healthy 1,000-day window.

Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) is a national, nonpartisan, anti-poverty nonprofit that uses a racial equity lens to lift up the voices of low-income children, families, and individuals; equip advocates and organizers with policy ideas that work; build coalitions and partnerships to advance a bold vision; and help public officials put good ideas into practice. CLASP has been fighting back against the Administration's repeated attacks on core health, nutrition, and income support programs, and co-leads the Protecting Immigrant Families campaign, which has brought together over 400 groups to protect low-income immigrants and their families access to these supports without risking their immigration status.

Campaign for Healthier Solutions is an environmental and economic justice-focused markets campaign led by grassroots community activists working to get toxic chemicals out of dollar stores. Based on CHS’s testing of many dollar store products, millions of families in food-deprived areas who rely on dollar stores for much of their food and household items are being exposed to dangerous levels of toxic chemicals. CHS advocates for stronger legal requirement that protect families who have no other shopping options.

The Ecology Center is a Michigan-based nonprofit organization that develops innovative solutions for healthy people and a healthy planet in collaboration with kindred organizations around the world. The Ecology Center's campaigns using scientific testing for hazardous chemicals have had huge impacts in moving manufacturers to produce healthier products for children.

The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) is the largest national nonprofit dedicated to eliminating all asbestos-related diseases, including mesothelioma. To achieve this mission, ADAO works with public health organizations and passionate leaders throughout the world to prevent consumer, environmental, and occupational exposure to asbestos.

Healthy Schools Network is the nation’s leading voice for children’s environmental health at school. Founded in 1995, it has fostered a growing national movement; helped parents and others nationwide with school environmental health issues; won state policies and funds for schools; secured new federal authorizations for the Environmental Protection Agency and for the Department of Education; and has been honored for its contributions to public health and the environment.

Black Millennials For Flint (BM4F) is a grassroots, environmental justice and civil rights organization with the purpose of bringing like-minded organizations together to collectively take action and advocate against the crisis of lead exposure specifically in African American & Latino communities throughout the nation. Their work equips communities with digestible information regarding lead and lead exposure; provides access to direct resources to improve the quality of life in communities impacted by lead exposure; and supports local, state, and federal lead and environmental policy initiatives.

Green & Healthy Homes Initiative is a national non-profit organization working to break the link between unhealthy housing and unhealthy families by creating and advocating for health, safe, and energy efficient homes. GHHI identifies resources and informs local, state, and federal policy to overcome barriers to affordable, healthy and lead safe housing.

Clean Cape Fear is a volunteer-based grassroots alliance of community leaders, educators, and professionals working together to restore and protect water quality after learning DuPont/Chemours poisoned the drinking water supply of a quarter of million people in Southeastern North Carolina with dangerous levels of PFAS chemicals for decades. They also spotlight deficiencies in governmental regulations adversely impacting our right to clean water. Clean Cape Fear is equally committed to holding elected officials accountable.

Safer States is a national coalition of state-based advocates working to eliminate our exposure to harmful chemicals. Safer States coordinates a national campaign to coordinate state, local and national advocacy efforts to turn off the tap on PFAS, ensure proper cleanup of contaminated areas and ensure polluters are held financially accountable for their actions.

Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) protects children’s rights and well-being as they migrate alone in search of safety. KIND works to ensure that no child appears in immigration court without high quality legal representation; advances laws, policies, and practices that uphold children’s rights to due process and fundamental fairness; and promotes durable solutions to child migration grounded in the best interests of the child to ensure that no child is forced to migrate.

Women’s Refugee Commission—Since 1989, the Women’s Refugee Commission has worked to improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. Their Migrant Rights and Justice program focuses on the right to seek asylum in the United States, working to ensure that refugees, including women, children, and families are provided with humane reception in transit and in the United States, are given access to legal protection, and are protected from exposure to gender discrimination or gender-based violence.

Moms Clean Air Force is a community of over one million moms and dads united against air pollution and committed to fighting for climate safety to protect our children's health. They work across the US and through a vibrant network of state-based chapters building support for an end to climate pollution, bringing the voices of parents to decision makers, and protecting children from air pollution through education and advocacy.

Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (T.E.J.A.S.) is dedicated to providing community members with the tools necessary to create sustainable, environmentally healthy communities by educating individuals on health concerns and implications arising from environmental pollution, empowering individuals with an understanding of applicable environmental laws and regulations and promoting their enforcement, and offering community building skills and resources for effective community action and greater public participation. In addition to their advocacy and organizing efforts, T.E.J.A.S. co-hosts community air monitoring services and coordinates toxic tours in Houston to showcase the impact some of the largest refineries and chemical plants have on nearby neighborhoods.