National Summit for Children’s Health in a Changing Climate - How Communities Protect Children from Climate and Environment Harms

A powerful movement is emerging. 

Childcare providers, early and K–12 educators, home visitors, and pediatric health providers are taking on carbon emissions and adapting their settings to protect children from present harms. They’re reducing the risks of those to come and preparing children for their futures as stewards of the land, air, and water. Together with community members and climate and environment experts, they are creating new collaborations with all kinds of community-based organizations, local government agencies, businesses, and other institutions to learn from and strengthen each other’s efforts.

Join us to learn with advocates in pediatrics, early childhood care and education, urban forestry, community development, public agencies, philanthropy, research, and journalism who will share their work underway now — in partnership with children and families already living with new climate extremes.

Find out how communities, cities, counties, and states across the country are mobilizing to protect the spaces where today’s children live, breathe, and learn while building a safer future for tomorrow’s children.

What You’ll Learn: Agenda at a Glance

• What Is Climate Change and How Does It Harm Children?
• Children’s Health and Climate Change Today
• How Communities Are Protecting Children’s Health and Learning
• How Cities and Counties Are Partnering with Communities to Protect Children’s Health and Learning
• How States Are Partnering with Communities to Protect Children’s Health and Learning
• Indigenous Landways in Early Childhood Programs
• Stronger Together: What Authentic Collaboration Looks Like