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Welcome to IKE!
Improving Kids' Environment is a non-profit, advocacy coalition that facilitates tangible and significant improvements to children’s health through reductions in environmental threats to children. IKE will help children reach their full potential by working with citizens, non-profit organizations, governments, businesses, and others to:
Identify environmental health threats to children;
Ensure that parents and others who help children have effective access to information about these threats and the means to prevent them;
Support the activities of those organizations striving to remove, reduce, and communicate these threats; and
Promote practical means to remove or reduce recognized, serious threats that are not being addressed effectively.
Since its formation on May 1, 1999, IKE developed six priorities:
Protecting Children from Lead-Based Paint and Healthy Homes
Protecting Kids from Sewer in Our Streams
Reconnecting Health Priorities such as Asthma with Environmental Threats
Reducing Both Pests and Pesticides in Schools and Child Care Centers
Reducing Unnecessary Uses of Mercury
Preventing Poisoning from Consumer Products
Working for Retail Stores that Give Good Advice and Sell Safe Products.
Janet G. McCabe is IKE's Executive Director. Contact her at:
1201 N. Central Ave., #9
Indianapolis, IN 46220
Phone: 317-902-3610
Fax: 866-234-8505
Email: mccabe@ikecoalition.org
