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Ellie Goldberg, Healthy Kids
Ellie Goldberg, M.Ed.
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Testimony on need to regulate Bisphenol A
 
Fulfilling our mission as advocates for children
 

What All Parents Should Know about Special Education Parent Advisory Councils, MassPTA and Parent Involvement  


 

About Ellie


Chemicals in Schools: Battling for Awareness, by Ellen Glazer, Newton Magazine, March, 2006.

Activist Pushes for School Air Cleanliness, by Joan Millman, Boston Globe, September 23, 2004

Massachusetts Consultant Advocates for Students with Asthma,  in AsthmaMemo, NHLBI/NIH, Information Center, Fall, 1994. 

About me

I am an educational consultant, advocate, author, speaker, and workshop leader devoted to promoting children's healthy development, especially their environmental health and safety. To see a formal CV click here >>.

I have been a high school teacher, writer and curriculum developer.  I am author of Experiencing Psychology (1978), (Science Research Associates, Inc.  with Robert Goodale, PhD), and a series of faculty and student textbooks for the 24-program PBS telecourse, Discovering Psychology (1989), Print Projects, WGBH-Boston.

In the mid-1980's I was health educator for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program and worked on educational and legislative projects to update the Massachusetts Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention law in collaboration with the Conservation Law Foundation and other advocacy groups.

Ellie Goldberg for Healthy Kids

In 1989, I founded www.healthy-kids.info, a consulting service dedicated to promoting a better understanding of the health and educational needs of students with asthma and other chronic health conditions. My resources and programs are designed to help educators, health professionals, community officials, organizations, policy makers and parents work together to improve policies and practices so that schools are safe for children's healthy development.

I am or have been a long time board member of many health, education, and environmental organizations including the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America/New England (AAFA), the Coalition Organized for Health Education in Schools (COHES), Clean Water Action, the Toxics Action Center (MA), the Green Decade Coalition/Newton, and the Special Needs Advocacy Network (SPAN). I was the Asthma Resource Person and a parent volunteer for Newton's Understanding Our Differences: A Disability Awareness Program in the Newton Public Schools from 1987 to 1999.

As legislative chairperson of the Massachusetts PTA, I have served as a member of MassPartners, a collaboration of the major school administrator, teacher, and parent associations in Massachusetts and as a board member of Citizens for Public Schools. I served on the Massachusetts Interdisciplinary Health Education and Human Services Advisory Council, one of sixteen councils established by the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993. I also serve on the governing council and legislative sub-committee of the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, a statewide coalition of over 140 public health, education, labor, environmental and community groups working for environmental health and safety.

I am a member of the Massachusetts Healthy Schools Network of the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH), on the advisory board of the national Healthy Schools Network, Inc., and have served as an expert consultant to the Committee on Asthma in the School of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute/NIH) for over eleven years. I belong to the American Public Health Association (Environmental Section), the Massachusetts Public Health Association, The Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA), SpedWatch, and Health Care Without Harm (HCWH).

I have also contributed to programs and materials developed by the Children's Television Workshop, the Food Allergy Network, WGBH-TV, The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the Allergy and Asthma Network/Mothers of Asthmatics, Inc., the National Association of School Nurses, the American Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology, Dr. Tom Plaut's Asthma Guide for People of All Ages, 1999, and others.

COMMUNITY  I was the co-chair of GreenCAP, the Committee for Alternatives to Pesticides of the Green Decade Coalition/Newton for ten years. GreenCAP has been awarded grants from the Toxics Use Reduction Institute (University of Massachusetts/Lowell) and the New England Grassroots Environment Fund.

In 1997, I was recognized by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection as one of six "unsung heroes" in Massachusetts for my work promoting alternatives to pesticides through community education and public policy initiatives. In 2004 I received the Green Decade Coalition's Environmental Leadership Award. GreenCAP's work resulted in the City of Newton's adoption of a comprehensive Integrated Pest Management Policy to eventually eliminate pesticides in all city-owned buildings and grounds. It was the basis of the City of Newton's application for the US Conference of Mayors City Livability Award. 

December 10, 2008, the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH) presented The Collaborative Action for Worker Justice Award to Ellie Goldberg, of The Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, for outstanding efforts to promote safe jobs and healthy communities.


I am active in national and state coalitions to eliminate the use of pesticides, especially in schools. I believe that the key to reducing preventable illness and disabilities is clean air, clean water, clean energy and safe food.


The world endures solely by virtue of the breath of school children. (Talmud)

Best Wishes for a Healthy 2010!

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Ellie Goldberg, M.Ed.
healthykids@rcn.com

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