Welcome to the NH Healthy School Environments Program

The NH Partners for Healthy Schools (NHPHS) established the NH Healthy School Environments program to help school districts improve their indoor and outdoor environments and the health of their students and staff. Throughout 2008-10, the program worked with the following school districts and provided free assessment, training, technical assistance and mentoring to address environmental and asthma management needs identified by the schools. In addition, some of the partners are able to make grants available to be used to purchase supplies, materials, equipment or further technical assistance in order to implement healthy school improvement plans developed through the program. Currently, do to the reprioritizing of available funding, NHPHS is not taking applications to work with individual schools. 

2007-2008 recipients

Lamprey River Elementary School, Raymond, NH
Mildred C. Lakeway Elementary School, Littleton, NH

2008-2009 recipients

SAU #13 - Madison, Tamworth, & Freedom NH

2009-2011 recipients

SAU #42 - Nashua, NH

SAU #52 - Portsmouth, NH

2010-2011 recipients

Bluff Elementary School - Claremont, NH 

Hot Topics & Upcoming Events

• Implementing NH School Air Quality Laws Webinar (posted April 21, 2011 - sound is not very good quality)

• Implementing NH School Air Quality Laws Webinar Power Point (posted March 24, 2011)

• Greener, Cleaner Schools: How to Apply the Principles and Practices of Green Cleaning and Integrated Pest Management Workshop Presentations and Materials (posted Janaury 10, 2011)

• Identifying, Preventing, and Communication Mold in Schools Workshop Presentations (posted June 15, 2010)

• Legislation Alert (posted June 15, 2010)

  These two bills have passed the House and Senate and have been signed by the Governor. They will go into effect January 1, 2011.

  1. HB1289: Relative to air quality in public schools and Tools for Schools

  2. HB1265: Requiring school boards to develop a policy to address air quality issues in schools.

Success Stories

Connecticut Department of Public Health - Healthy Environments in Public Schools

               Connecticut Deptartment of Public Health - Success Stories