FL Children''s Environmental Health Alliance (FCEHA)

Florida Children’s Environmental Health Alliance (FCEHA) is a non-profit organization focused on promoting healthy and supportive environments that protect children from environmental and occupational health hazards while empowering them through their caretakers to live long and prosper in their own homes and communities.
FCEHA believes in environmental justice, the principle that people have the right to live in a healthy and safe environment regardless of their race and/or socioeconomic status. The main focus of the Alliance is to develop and implement prevention strategies for children living in at-risk housing in Florida, starting with the southeastern counties of Florida (Monroe, Miami Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach).
Objectives are the following:
• To promote through research health promotion and disease prevention strategies that heal the whole person with focus on children in their immediate homes, schools, and communities;
• To provide service, education and advocacy that build healthier communities in order to facilitate information exchange on the best practices or models in the area of children’s environmental health;
• To promote a Public Awareness Campaign which will affirm our Mission, Ideology and Envisioned Future to influence health professionals, policymakers, legislators, the media and community members;
• To elevate public awareness of the value of life at all stages and to affirm how environmental hazards can jeopardize a child’s health;
• To create and maintain a partnership in high-risk communities by continuously evaluating their needs and to provide solutions to environmental health hazards affecting children.
Research Programs are the following:
1)Toxic chemicals including metals such as Lead, Mercury, Arsenic and other chemicals such as Pesticides, PCBs, Dioxins and Endocrine Disruptors along with issues of health disparity / environmental justice;
2)Indoor air pollutants in the homes and the workplace including environmental tobacco smoke and other triggers of asthma such as exposure to dust mites and fungi (mold).
Ongoing projects are the following:
1)Partnership Against Lead (PAL) Project and
2)Pilot Miami Inner City Asthma Study (MICAS).