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Iowa
Projects
Project Title:Keokuk County Pollution Program
Project Location: Keokuk County, Iowa
Applicant Information: Keokuk County Extension Service
Type of applicant: State Controlled Institution of Higher Learning
Total Grant: $24,917.00
Brief Summary: The Project will teach youth and senior adults about pollution with special emphasis on water pollution and quality. The program incorporates senior adults throughout the curriculum both learning and teaching children about pollution and methods of prevention and control. The project's goal is for senior adults to learn by teaching and by interacting with friends, and to take what they have learned and use it to improve their health and the health of the community.
Environmental outcomes: The project will train 25 older adults who will in turn train youth at summer camps. At least 54 homebound older adults will have their wells and septic systems evaluated for water pollutants such as nitrates, e- Coli and a "to be determined" pesticide.
Final Reports
Project Title: Preparing Environmental Health and Safety Stewards
Project Location: Seven counties served by Kirkwood Community College (KCC), Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Applicant Info: Kirkwood Community College
Type of applicant: State Controlled Institution of Higher Learning
Total Grant: $25,000.00
Brief Summary: KCC in Cedar Rapids, Iowa is the only community college in the nation to support a regional agency that is funded by the Administration on Aging to serve the needs of older Americans. Kirkwood, in partnership with the Heritage Area Agency on Aging, will prepare 148 older Task Force Members and 20 case managers to serve as environmental health and safety stewards in the seven county area served by the college.
Environmental outcomes: The project will cultivate a heightened awareness among health care workers, older adults and family caregivers to keep people safe from environmental hazards and to practice waste minimization and pollution prevention. The project targets an at-risk population, frail older adults living independently in the community, who will benefit from cleaner air, water and home environment. The Kirkwood Environmental Training Center will train six staff to train 1248 Heritage Task Force Members who are older adult leaders serving as advocates in the seven county area of Kirkwood Community College.
- Conserving Handout with Opinion (PDF) (2 pp, 235K, About PDF) - Important New Information To Share About Indoor Air Quality
- Indoor Air with Opinion (PDF) (2 pp, 324K, About PDF) - Important New Information To Share about Conserving Resources and Preventing Pollution
- Pesticides with Opinion (PDF) (1 p, 290K, About PDF) - Important New Information To Share about Environmental Health Hazards In Our Homes and In Our Water
- Water Handout with Opinion (PDF) (3 p, 316K, About PDF) - Important New Information To Share About Safe Water
- Preparing Environmental Health and Safety Stewards (PDF) (37 pp, 7.59MB, About PDF)