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ABOUT IKE
Since 1999, Improving Kids' Environment (IKE) has been the statewide non-profit leader in helping to safeguard children from environmental threats at home, at school, and in the community.
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Our mission is to protect children from environmental health hazards through education and advocacy that create healthy homes, schools, and communities.
Improving Kids' Environment (IKE), throughout its history, has been focused on advancing programs and public policies to reduce environmental threats to children's health. IKE had been on the forefront of efforts to reduce risks to Hoosier kids from lead, pesticides, household chemicals, and raw sewage.
For its first twenty years, from May 1999 to October 2019, Improving Kids' Environment (IKE) was an independent, statewide non-profit organization. It was led successively by Executive Directors Tom Neltner, Janet McCabe, Jodi Perras, Dolores Weis, and Margaret Frericks.
To sustain its vital mission, IKE — starting on Children's Environmental Health Day (October 10, 2019) — became a part of the Hoosier Environmental Council (HEC) through a merger. The combined organization is led by HEC's Executive Director Jesse Kharbanda. Indra Frank, MD, MPH, HEC's Environmental Health Director, will shepherd three major children's environmental health initiatives, which are described in this handout and video. We very much look forward to engage past IKE Staff and volunteers in IKE's future under HEC.
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Improving Kids' Environment is an initiative of the Hoosier Environmental Council, a non profit, tax-exempt charitable organization (tax identification number 35-1576694) under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions are tax deductible as described in current tax law.
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