Ongoing Initiatives
In response to the growing body of evidence that children are at greater risk than adults from environmental health hazards, in 1998, the United States Catholic Conference's Environmental Justice Program and its Office for Domestic Social Development (DSD) embarked on a new initiative to address this serious concern.
Through its participation and role as lead coordinator of the Catholic Coalition for Children and a Safe Environment (CASE), the following goals were established: a) to bring relief to affected children, their families and communities; b) to inform and educate the larger Catholic community of the salience of this issue, thus building a constituency of concern; and c) to promote institutional reform and public policies that can prevent and ameliorate this problem.
With the support of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, USCCB administers small grants aimed at developing Catholic leadership to get the message out about caring for creation and protecting the most vulnerable from environmental threats.
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