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PSCIP Events 2008
Educational Activities presented by the Pennsylvania Integrated Pest Management Program
Public events with The BugMobile! talking car and interactive IPM display
Educational activities--great opportunities for educators!
January
Jan. 20, 2008 - NIM interfaith service
Reaching a Milestone: 25th Annual Northwest Community Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration
Jan. 21, 2008 - MLK Day of Service at Germantown High School
Reduce Asthma
Protect your Family’s Health
Avoid Toxic Chemicals
Jan. 23, 2008 - 3:30-4:30PM, Hands-on IPM presentation to 4th graders at
Overbrook Elementary School
February
Location: 4117 Lancaster Ave.
Contact for more information: Miguel Ramirez (215) 760-3107
Feb.5, 2008 - 5:30PM Shaw Middle School, community and meet and greet the new President and CEO Terry Stacz of Edison Schools Inc.
Feb. 6, 2008 - "Good Bug, Bad Bug" presentation to 1st graders at West Philadelphia Achievement Charter Educational School
Feb. 7, 2008 – 12:30-2:00PM Healthy Start North Perinatal Providers Meeting
Feb. 12, 2008 – 8:30AM-4:30PM “IPM for Multi-Family Housing” training. Location: People’s Emergency Center, 325 N. 39th Street
Contact: Dion Lerman (215) 471-2200 Ext. 109
Feb. 20, 2008 - 10:00AM-12:00noon - "Safer Spaces" presentation (AHEC/WHEN/PA IPM) Norris Square Child Care Center
Feb. 21, 2008 - "IPM: Pests, Pesticides and Health" presentation for EPA RSVP Volunteers
Location: EPA Region 3, 16th and Arch Streets, Philadelphia
Feb. 28-29, 2008 - PHENND "The Power of Place" Annual Conference
"LEEAP IN! Linking Environmental Education and Play in Nature"
Antiochian Village Conference and Retreat Center, Bolivar, PA (Laurel Highlands)
Feb. 29, 2008 - "Good Bug, Bad Bug" presentation to 1st graders at West Philadelphia Achievement Charter Educational School
March
March 3, 2008 – 8:00AM-3:00PM – CHOP Asthma Roundtable
Location: 3535 Market Street, 16th Floor
Contact: Tyra Bryant-Stephens, MD (215) 590-5020
March 4, 2008 - 6:00-8:00PM - "Safer Spaces" presentation (AHEC/WHEN/PA IPM)
Bustleton United Methodist Child Care Center
March 5, 2008 - "Good Bug, Bad Bug" presentation to 1st graders at West Philadelphia Achievement Charter Educational School
March 7, 2008 - 1:30-3:30PM - "Safer Spaces" presentation (AHEC/WHEN/PA IPM)
Parent Infant Center
Why is pest management an important environmental issue? Learn about the essentials of IPM and how to implement lessons surrounding this topic in the classroom. Hands on activities, lessons, and supplemental materials will be provided. This workshop will be hosted at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education in Philadelphia. The cost is $20/teacher and will cover 6 hours of Act 48 credit. For more information or to register, please contact Beatrice Kelly @ 215-482-7300 ext.122
March 13, 2008 - Fishing the Region: Water Quality and Fish Consumption in the Delaware Valley
Anne Faulds, PA Sea Grant, Introduced by: Gin Ranly
Location: Schulykill Center for Environmental Education
Contact: Camila Rivera-Tinsley (215) 482-7300 ext.122
March 19, 2008 – 6:15-8:15PM "Safer Spaces" presentation (AHEC/WHEN/PA IPM)
Nicetown Boys and Girls Club
March 20, 2008 – 6:30-8:30PM "Safer Spaces" presentation (AHEC/WHEN/PA IPM)
Caring People Alliance
March 27, 2008 - 10:30-11:30AM “IPM for Home Visitors and Social Workers”
Health Federation of Philadelphia
Early Head Start Program
March 27, 2008 - Green Roofs
Jeff Jabco, Swarthmore College, Introduced by: Fran Lawn
Location: Schulykill Center for Environmental Education
Contact: Camila Rivera-Tinsley (215) 482-7300 ext.122
March 29,2008 - "IPM: Getting Off the Pesticide Treadmill"
Location: The Rhodes Garden, North Wales, PA
Contact for more information: Judith Gratz, Wissahickon Valley Watershed Assoc., Environmental Education Director, (215) 646-8866
April
April 10, 2008 - Energy: The Burning Issue
Mike Weilbacher, Lower Marion Conservancy, Introduced by: Dennis Burton
Location: Schulykill Center for Environmental Education
Contact: Camila Rivera-Tinsley (215) 482-7300 ext.122
April 21, 2008 – Earth Day at Overbrook Elementary School
Contact: Sheree Johnson, US Forest Service (610) 557-4027
April 22, 2008 - EPA Earth Day
Contact for more information: Betty Ringkamp (215) 814-5663
April 24, 2008 - Philadelphia’s Amphibian Residents
Mr. Wechsler, Academy of Nat. Sci., Introduced by Camila Rivera Tinsley
Location: Schulykill Center for Environmental Education
Contact: Camila Rivera-Tinsley (215) 482-7300 ext.122
April 25, 2008 – 1:00-3:00PM "Safer Spaces" presentation (AHEC/WHEN/PA IPM)
Dreuding Center
April 24, 2008 - "IPM for Women, Infants and Children"
Location: Quarterly Philadelphia WIC Employee Conference
April 28-May 2 - National Healthy Schools Week
May
May 6, 2008 World Asthma Day, presented by Asthma Care Committee
May 8, 2008 - Climate Change: Do New York City and the Eastern Seaboard have a Watery Future?
Dr. Malcolm Bowman, NY
Location: Schulykill Center for Environmental Education
Contact: Camila Rivera-Tinsley (215) 482-7300 ext.122
May 10, 2008 - Northeast Child Care Professionals Conference
Location: Holy Family University College Center 9801 Frankford Avenue
Temple School of Nursing Conference
Contact for more information: Nancy Rothman (215) 707-5436
May 22, 2008 - Pollinators and the Great Green Bounty
Neal Williams, Bryn Mawr College
Location: Schulykill Center for Environmental Education
Contact: Camila Rivera-Tinsley (215) 482-7300 ext.122
May 30, 2008 - PA Heritage Day at Hempfield Area School District. PA IPM presentation for local 4th grade students.
Temple University Surroundcare, Office of Partnership Schools
Contact for more information: Dione Cash (215) 707-5437
June
June 2, 2008 - "Safer Spaces" 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Presentation (AHEC/WHEN/PAIPM) Step by Step Childcare Center
June 7th, 2008 - Toxins in Our Midst: Breast Cancer and the Environment
Location: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Buemle Life Sciences Building
233 South 10th Street (10th and Locust)
June 14, 2008 – 9:00AM-3:00PM Household Hazardous Waste drop-off
City of Philadelphia, Streets Department
Northwest Transfer Station-Domino Lane and Umbria Street in the Roxborough section of the City.
June 19, 2008 Asthma Champions Conference
Location: Temple University, Harrisburg Campus
Phone: 717-541-5864 ext 28
E-mail: SLewis@LungInfo.org
June 21, 2008 – 11:00AM-7:00PM
Health Fair, Anti-violence and Household Hazardous Waste and Toxics Exchange
Contact: La’Donna Gray (215) 849-3104 Ext. 131 or Milea Perry (215) 471-2200 Ext. 109
June 23-26, 2008 - Bug Camp for Kids. For more information visit http://www.ento.psu.edu/scied/BugCamp.html
July
July 13-18, 2008 - Ag in the Classroom workshop series presented by the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau at Penn State University campus.
July 14, 2008 - IPM Presentation
EPA Region III
July 15, 2008 The PA IPM program will be at the Boalsburg Farmers market in Boalsburg, PA from 2-6pm.
July 16, 2008 - The PA IPM program will be at the Aaronsburg Area Public Library for an evening presentation on insects and IPM in support of this year’s reading theme, “Catch the Reading Bug.”
July 21, 2008 - 10:00-11:30AM “Good Bugs, Bad Bugs” Presentation at Gaudenzia
July 22, 2008 - The PA IPM program will be at the Priestly-Forsyth Memorial Library in Northumberland, PA for an outreach program.
July 24, 2008 – 9:00AM-3:00PM Household Hazardous Waste drop-off
Streets Department's Training Center-State Road at Ashburner Street, 1.3 miles north of Cottman Avenue and south of Linden Avenue
July 26, 2008 – 11:00AM-3:00PM Belmont Health Awareness and Youth Activities Day and Household Hazardous Waste and Toxics Exchange
Contact: Bettye Ferguson (215) 387-3252 or Milea Perry (215) 471-2200 Ext. 109
July 26, 2008 - The PA IPM program will be in Philadelphia for the 8th Annual Health Fair planned by the Abundant Life Healing Fellowship Church.
July 27-August 1, 2008 - The Pennsylvania Department of Education will be hosting The Governor’s Institute for Environment and Ecology at the Seven Springs Resort. The PA IPM will be delivering a teacher’s workshop on IPM during one of the sessions.
August
August 4, 2008 - 5:00-9:00PM TownWatch National Night Out Kick-off RallyWalMart parking lot on Columbus Blvd.
August 5, 2008 - 6:30-8:30PM "Safer Spaces" presentation (AHEC/WHEN/PA IPM)
Abbington YMCA Childcare Center
August 7, 2008 - 9:30-12:30 4 hour IPM Training for child care facility directors
August 13, 2008 - 11:00-3:00 IPM display table at the farmer's market at City Hall
August 26, 2008 - 3:00-5:00 "Safer Spaces" presentation (AHEC/WHEN/PA IPM)
September
September 7, 2008 - 11:00AM-6:00PM Green Fest Philly
September 13, 2008 – 9:00AM-3:00PM Household Hazardous Waste drop-off
Streets Department's 3rd Distrct Highway Yard - 22nd Street and York Street
September 13, 2008 - 9:00AM-3:00PM Household Hazardous Waste drop-off
Streets Department's 3rd Distrct Highway Yard - 22nd Street and York Street
Monday, September 15th, 12:00-2:30 Part 1: “In Sickness and in Wealth”
Clara Cohen Hall (formerly Logan Hall), the Terrace Room
rsvp: cphi@pobox.upenn.edu
September 15-17, 2008 National Healthy Homes Conference
Location: Baltimore Hilton, Maryland
September 18-19, 2008 - The 6TH Annual Conference on Children's Health and the Environment
University of Pennsylvania's Perelman Quad, Philadelphia, PA.
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: for the 6th Annual Conference on Children's Health and the Environment.
September 26, 2008 - 10:00AM-2:30PM The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Health Awareness Fair, 4148 Lancaster Ave.
Contact: Ronald Allen III 215-578-3319
October
October 3, 2008 - Health Care Without Harm - Nursing Faculty Development Program, Villonova University
Contact: Ruth McDermott-Levy, PhD, RN, College of Nursing, 610.519.6813
October 4, 2008 - 9:00AM-3:00PM Household Hazardous Waste drop-off
Streets Department Facility, Southwest Philadelphia03033 South 63rd Street, Northwest of Passyunk.
October 4, 2008 - Great Insect Fair at Penn State University main campus at the Agricultural Arena.
Being Green In Your Garden - Wissahickon Watershed Association
October 23-25 The Natioal Summit of Clinicians for Healthcare Justice - Washington, D.C.
November
November 1, 2008 - 9:00AM-3:00PM Household Hazardous Waste drop-off
Northeast Sanitation Facility0Delaware Avenue between Castor Avenue and Lewis Street in the Bridesburg section of the City (near Allegheny Exit of I-95).
December
December 4-6, 2008 - 9th Annual Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools National Symposium
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hosts its annual Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools (IAQ TfS) National Symposium in Washington, DC, to bring together past, present and future leaders in protecting and improving IAQ in our nation’s schools.
Registration for the 9th Annual IAQ Tools for Schools National Symposium is now open! Click here to register.
Registration for the 9th Annual IAQ Tools for Schools National Symposium is now open! Click here to register.