Our mission:

To reduce the impact of asthma across New England, through collaborations of health, housing, education, and environmental organizations with particular focus on the contribution of schools, homes, and communities to the disease and with attention to its disproportionate impact on populations at greatest risk.


News

Webinar June 30th - the National Agenda for Safe and Healthy Housing

Jun 22, 2010

ARC is holding a "Building Heatlhy Homes Programs" webinar series to feature work going on across the region to develop and promote healthy homes programs. Join us on:

Upcoming webinars:

ARC Webinar series continues in 2010

June 30, 3-4 pm we will feature The National Agenda for Safe and Healthy Housing.

Speaker: Rebecca Morley, Executive Director for the National Center for Healthy Housing

 

You can also view our archived healthy homes webinars at Training

 

 

 


News
Oct 26, 2011

On October 12, 2011 ARC and close to 50 co-signers submitted testimony requesting that the Institute of Medicine examine and address the non-clinical best practice components of comprehensive asthma management as part of Community Based

Non-Clinical Prevention Policies and Wellness Strategies.

Oct 26, 2011

Over 50 organizations and individuals joined ARC and Health Resources in Action in expressing to New England U.S. Senator4s our extreme concern about the proposed complete elimination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Program by the Senate Appropriations Committee in the proposed FY12 spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services and Education.

Apr 11, 2011
More than 400 organizations and advocates joined ARC and its partners in sending a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, expressing deep concerns over budget cuts to environmental health programs.