Child Care IPM-Growing Up Green
- About the Healthy Schools Act and child care facilities
- About integrated pest management (IPM)
- About pesticides and safe pesticide use
- School IPM HELPR
- For more information
About the Healthy Schools Act and child care facilities
- What you need to know about the Healthy Schools Act and child care facilities
(fact sheet)
(English PDF,146 kb) [En Español PDF, 180 kb] - Templates – notification, registry, warning sign, and recordkeeping forms to help you comply with right-to-know requirements
- Pesticides exempt from the posting, notification, recordkeeping requirements (PDF, 80 kb)
- Pesticides prohibited from use in schools and child care facilities (PDF, 30 kb)
- Assembly Bill 2865 (Chapter 865, Statutes of 2006) (PDF, 89 kb) – legislation which imposed requirements on child care facilities
- What is IPM? Integrated pest management is a widely accepted approach to pest management that results in effective suppression of pest populations while minimizing human health and environmental hazards.
more... - About pest management – information on least–hazardous pest management practices and pest prevention
- DPR’s School IPM publications
- Reducing pesticide use – fact sheets about how to reduce pesticide use around homes and gardens
- About safe pesticide use – DPR fact sheets
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Useful links – information on pesticides and related topics
- Structural Pest Control Board – information about fumigation for pest control, household pest control, and termites
- School IPM HELPR – for a specific pest, provides management tactics and potential human health and environmental impacts
California Department of Education
Dave Hawke
Phone: (916) 322-1459
E-mail: dhawke@cde.ca.gov Child care facilities contact:
California Department of Social Services
Jim Hopper
Phone: (408) 406-6018
E-mail: Jim.Hopper@dss.ca.gov For more information about child care IPM contact:
Department of Pesticide Regulation
Belinda Messenger
Phone: (916) 324-4077
E-mail: bmessenger@cdpr.ca.gov For more information about school IPM contact:
Department of Pesticide Regulation
Sewell Simmons
E-mail: school-ipm@cdpr.ca.gov We hope this Web site answers most of your questions on school IPM (if not, please send us a suggestion).
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