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Capability: Community Engagement and Health Education

Project Timeline: 2010 - 2013

Fish are an important part of a healthy diet, and many cultures and indigenous people fish in local watersheds as a part of their cultural practices.  Some fish in the San Francisco Bay, however, are contaminated by mercury and PCBs at levels of concern.  In collaboration with the California Department of Public Health, the Sequoia Foundation developed the San Francisco Bay Fish Project is a two-year project to reduce exposure to harmful chemicals from eating San Francisco Bay fish.  The project engaged community groups in fish education and outreach, providing training, educational materials, and grants to the California Indian Environmental Alliance, Asian Pacifica Association for Family Support Services, GreenAction for Health and Environmental Justice, and Kids for the Bay.  Sequoia worked with these organizations from 2011 to 2012 to incorporate fish education into their ongoing programs.  

Projects

  1. Improve Low Rates of Childhood Lead Screening Amongst Health Care Providers
  2. Effectiveness of a Large Prenatal Tobacco Reduction Program
  3. California's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
  4. Collection of Dried Blood Spots from Children for the Examination of CMV
  5. PBDE/Breast Milk Monitoring
  6. Early Childhood Mortality Study
  7. Preterm Markers Study-2006/07
  8. Maternal and Infant Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth: the Inflammatory Response
  9. Preterm Markers Study-2009/10
  10. Development of a Research-Ready Pregnancy and Newborn Biobank in California
  11. National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center
  12. Newborn Blood Spots, Collaborative Project with UCD Public Health Sciences Department
  13. Environmental and Molecular Epidemiology of Childhood Leukemia
  14. Evaluation of the Partnership for Smoke-Free Families Program
  15. Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth Study
  16. Outcome Prediction in Children with Positive California Cystic Fibrosis Newborn Screening
  17. Prenatal and Neonatal Biologic Markers for Autism
  18. Ascertain Environmental Exposure During Pregnancy
  19. Enhancing the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program
  20. CA Title 17 Analysis: Training/Certifying Renovation, Remodeling, and Painting Activities
  21. Children's Health Initiative - Impacts of Childhood Asthma in California
  22. Prenatal Smoke Exposure and Age at Menarche
  23. Selection In Utero: A Test of Competing Explanations
  24. iCARE General Population File
  25. Case-Control Study of Maternal and Infant Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth
  26. California's Chronic Disease Environmental Health Surveillance System
  27. Design of California's Response and Surveillance System for Childhood Lead Exposures (RASSCLE II) System
  28. Data Mapping California's Blood Lead Testing Reports
  29. California Electronic Blood Lead Reporting Security and Data Transmission Upgrades
  30. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry Data Analysis

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