Protecting Our Health, Children, Communities

BREAKING NEWS: HealthToys.org releases 2nd annual consumer guide to toxic chemicals in toys (click here to visit HealthToys.org)

HealthyToys.org includes test results for more than 1,500 toys and children’s products. This site is a first step in providing parents, grandparents, and others who care about children with the information they need to make better choices when purchasing toys and other children’s products.

Click the logo to view a short film on the issue:

The Coalition for a Safe & Healthy Connecticut is a partnership of organizations and individuals working together to reduce toxic chemicals that threaten human health and the environment.  Please join us in calling on government and manufacturers to take hazardous toxins out of their products!

Together we can convince decision-makers to protect the health of children, workers and communities by reducing toxic hazards. 

The Coalition for a Safe & Healthy Connecticut is leading statewide and local campaigns to reduce and eliminate toxic chemical exposures in our everyday lives – in buildings, schools and workplaces, air, water and food, and in consumer products.  Our goal is to replace hazardous toxic substances with proven, safer alternatives.    

Be Part of the Campaign!

 

Coalition Members

as of October, 2008

We're a diverse partnership of Connecticut organizations:

• Administrative and Residual Employees Union # 4200 (A & R 4200)

• Bridgeport East End Community Council

• Central Connecticut Labor Council

• Citizens Campaign for the Environment

• Clean Water Action

• Community Health Network of CT

• ConnectiCOSH  

• CT Association of Directors of Health (CADH)

• CT Association of Public Health Nurses (CAPHN)

• CT Association of School Nurses

• CT Chapter, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO-CT)  

• CT Citizen Action Group 

• CT Coalition for Environmental Justice  (CCEJ)

• CT Commission on Children

• CT Employees Union Independent (CEUI)

• CT Foundation for Environmentally Safe Schools (ConnFESS)

• CT Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA)

• CT Nurses Association  (CNA)

• CT Public Health Association  (CPHA)

• CT Public Interest Research Group (ConnPIRG)

• CT State African-American Affairs Commission

• CT State Council of Machinists

• Council 4 American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)

• Ecological Health Organization  (ECHO)

• Environment Connecticut

• Fairfield County Environmental Justice Network

• Greater Hartford Central Labor Council
• Interreligious Eco-Justice Network
• Milford Environmental Concerns Coalition
• Muhammad Islamic Center's Health Awareness Advisory Council
• North Hartford Seniors in Action

• Norwalk Federation of Teachers

• Planned Parenthood of Connecticut
  

• Sierra Club Connecticut Chapter 

• Southeastern CT Central Labor Council

• Teamsters 559

• Toxics Action Center

• The Watershed Partnership

• Yale Student Environmental Coalition

Endorsements

• Good for you Girls, LLC