School and Child Day Care Facilities Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Articles
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Articles, checklists, and handouts reprinted from magazines, journals, and government publications.
SCHOOL IPM ARTICLES
Single copies of any document are available by sending your request to school-ipm@cdpr.ca.gov.
- A Survey of Pest Problems and Pesticide Use in California Childcare Centers, Including Healthy Schools Act Compliance
- A Survey of California Public School Districts‘ Ant and Weed Management Practices and a Review of Their Use of IPM, PDF (360 kb) (2012 reprint)
- California’s Use of IPM in Managing Pests in Schools, PDF ( 1.4 mb) (2010 reprint)
- Moving Toward Better Ant and Weed Management in Schools, PDF ( 743 kb) (2007 reprint)
- Pest Prevention - Indoor Maintenance Practices, PDF (521 kb) (2006 reprint)
- Pest Prevention - Outdoor Maintenance Practices, PDF (718 kb) (2006 reprint)
- Healthy Schools Act Spurs Integrated Pest Management in California Public Schools, PDF (820 kb) (2005 reprint)
- Don’t Grow Your Own Mosquitoes!, PDF (283 kb) (2005 reprint)
- Pest Prevention Construction Guidelines and Practices, PDF (124 kb) (2005 reprint)
- Pest Prevention —Construction Guidelines and Practices (2005 checklist with examples and references)
- Facility Design: Pest Prevention, PDF (2005 reprint) (742 kb)
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Frequently Asked Questions About The
Healthy Schools Act
color, PDF (564 kb) b&w, PDF (170 kb) - Putting IPM into Practice, PDF (200 kb) (2003 reprint)
- Making the Grade in School Pest Management --Putting IPM to Work, PDF (270 kb) (2003 reprint)
- Pests and Pest Management: Making the Grade with Integrated Pest Management, PDF (117 kb) (2003 reprint)
- Pest Prevention —Maintenance Practices and Facility Design (2002 checklist with examples and references)
- Least-Toxic Alternatives for Argentine Ants, Fleas, and White Grubs of Lawns, PDF (170 kb) (2001 report)
- Pesticides In and Around Schools—Time For Change, PDF (240 kb) (1999 reprint)
CHILD DAY CARE FACILITIES IPM ARTICLES
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The California Childcare Health Program (CCHP) (June 2009)
The California Childcare Health Program (CCHP) is a program of the University of California San Francisco School of Nursing. CCHP publishes a newsletter “Child Care Health Connections” that provides up-to- date child health and safety information for the child care community. The newsletter is published six times per year. DPR’s Child Care IPM program collaborated with CCHP to produce the following nine articles about IPM- related topics for the newsletter:
- May-June 2008 - The Healthy Schools Act in Early Childhood Education (ECE) Settings, PDF (1 mb)
- July-August 2008 - Why Should ECE Programs Use Integrated Pest Management?; Adopting Greener Environmental Practices, PDF (845 kb)
- September-October 2008 - Integrated Pest Management: Ants; Integrated Pest Management: Yellow Jackets, PDF (1.7 mb)
- November-December 2008 - Green Cleaning in Child Care Settings; Sanitizing in Child Care Environments, PDF (1 mb)
- January-February 2009 - Integrated Pest Management: Rodents, PDF (563 kb)
- May-June 2009 - Integrated Pest Management: Mosquitoes, PDF 525 kb)
All of the newsletters are available at: http://www.ucsfchildcarehealth.org/html/pandr/newslettermain.htm