Center for Health, Environment and Justice

Stephen U.Lester, Center for Health, Environment and Justice, Falls Church, Virginia... 

One of the leaders of the Love Canal protest was a housewife named Lois Gibbs, who subsequently moved to northern Virginia to establish the Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste (since renamed the Center for Health, Environment and Justice), to advise other communities afflicted by toxic wastes. Over the next decade, the dimensions of the chemical waste problem began to emerge and thousands of local groups formed to advocate for the cleanup of contaminated local lands. This toxics movement eventually encompassed many thousands of local groups in all 50 states. 

RRS System Test Plan (3) Pre-Operational Surveys for the RRS and MMD-1 (4) Draft RCRA Part B Permit, Subpart X for the MMD and (5) Draft RCRA Part B Permit, Subpart X for the RRS (NSCWCC, 2000). Additional reports included Technical Criteria for the Destruction of Stockpiled Persistent Organic Pollutants (Greenpeace, 1998), and The American People s Dioxin Report (Center for Health, Environment and Justice, 1999). 

Freeman, Theresa. Vermonters Organized for Clean-Up. In Empowering Ourselves Women and Toxics Organizing, edited by Robbin Lee Zeff, Marsha Love, and Karen Stubs, 42-43. Falls Church, Va. Center for Health, Environment, and Justice, 1989. 

CCMHP is the current federal program providing coordinated, community-based, family-centered, cultmally competent, accessible, and least restrictive services for children and adolescents with serious emotional, behavioral, or mental disorders accompanied by functional impairment. Development of these systems of care is based on the premise that the mental health needs of children, adolescents, and their families can be met in their home, school, and community environments (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 1999). A variety of community agencies are involved, including mental health, child welfare, education, and juvenile justice. Funded service systems are tailored to the needs of individual children and adolescents and include evaluation and diagnosis. 

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