IPM Education and Training Available from PA IPM
IPM Education and Training Available from PA IPM
PA IPM offers educational and hands-on training sessions on IPM and Healthy Homes for diverse audiences in varied environments and settings across Pennsylvania. Our educational programs and train-the-trainer sessions can be tailored to meet the needs of your audience and provide evidence-based information from basic to advanced. Trainings are available in English and Spanish.
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All public school districts, charter schools, and childcare facilities in Pennsylvania are required by law (PA Acts 35 & 36 and the Pennsylvania Pesticide Control Act of 1973) to use Integrated Pest Management (IPM). The law aims to protect children and school employees from unnecessary exposure to pesticides, thus making learning environments safer.
IPM checklist for administrators and facility managers.
PA IPM offers educational and hands-on training sessions on IPM and Healthy Homes for diverse audiences in varied environments and settings across Pennsylvania.
There is nothing more important than a safe school environment for our children. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) reduces pests and minimizes pesticide use, helping to provide a healthy and safe environment. Every Pennsylvania school is required to use IPM to manage pests on school grounds. In addition, IPM is in the state academic standards requiring that all K-12 students learn about the benefits of IPM.
IPM is a scientific, ecological approach to managing all types of "pests", from deer in your fruit trees, to "bugs" in your basement, to diseases in crop plants and weeds in your lawn. Even head lice in schools can be handled using an IPM approach!
Healthy Homes is a multi-dimensional concept that spans the historically separate domains of housing, public health and environmental health.
